Actually, unless the bus and ram run faster than the cpu or the cache memory , cache will have a place in the design. If ram and bus are faster than cache, there is no point having cache. If ram and bus are faster than cpu speed, your cpu is too slow and you'll get no benefit from having such a fast ram and bus speed.
Actually, by making an agreement with the author - giving him a license for his parody, they ARE protecting their IP. Later if somebody does infringe on their IP, the infringer cannot refer to the parody case and claim "But you didn't defend it then, so why now?" because they had a specific agreement in place allowing that.
Yeah, but it only takes ONE knowledgeable individual to either a) Make his techniques known to the slightly computer-literate masses or b) Put the comics up on bittorrent and then everyone can view them at their leisure for free.
I almost prefer it that way. I'd hate to think what a pig's breakfast Microsoft would make out of an ssh server.
It would be incompatible with every client except the new microsoft ssh client they'd release with it. It would be full of security holes until at least microsoft ssh server service pack 2. It would be unstable and sometimes require a registry setting to be manually edited, and sometimes not, depending on what order a seemingly unrelated update made its changes in. It would be integrated in to the os such that if the ssh server crashed, the entire os would crash. After enough people complained and enough law suits, they would introduce rudimentary support for non-microsoft ssh clients, but these would occasionally corrupt data. Then they would implement their own version of X forwarding. Not by using the pre-existing remote desktop connection code, but by writing an entirely new powertoy client and a server plugin. Horrible things would occur if one attempted to connect to a server that didn't support graphics forwarding when the powertoy was installed on the client. There would be no fallback option to overcome this feature. 640KB would be the maximum graphics memory that any single application could forward if everything else miraculously worked.
In Australia, where we get bush fires that make other countries fires look like sputtering match sticks in comparison, insurance companies refuse to insure properties in high-risk areas against fire damage.
That said, what usually happens in a bush fire is either the owners stay inside and protect the house themselves, or our rural fire service does the job for them. When they aren't busy fighting fires in Australia, they get sent to the US to fight their fires and train their fire fighters.
It is possible to protect a house from bush fires - clear a large area around the house (nothing more than short grass), keep gutters free of leaves and other inflammable material, get a swimming pool and a pump and soak the house before the fire hits but leave enough water to put out fires afterwards. Stay indoors with windows shut, curtains or preferably blinds drawn, with gaps under doors blocked to prevent smoke from entering the house. Once the fire passes, go outside and put out the spot fires that have probably started around the house - on the roof and so forth.
No it's not the same. Genetic Engineering involves manipulating genes in such a way that the original plant would likely not have evolved. What you have described is natural selection. We select those plants that have desired traits.
A tendency to evolve in to harmful wheat has likely been bred out over the last few thousand years. Inserting new genes can have fantastic benefits for growing in tough conditions, growing larger seeds, immunity to various herbicides, but we do NOT know all the possible outcomes. See the case of GM potatoes being harmful to animals in a lab for instance.
That said, I'm all for GM, with proper investigation into all the effects of the new genes.
I don't know, it'd be comforting knowing that we'd all die and not have to put up with lawyers and cockroaches.
But if some of us would survive along with the lawyers and cockroaches (who makes that distinction anyway?) then surely that is a huge incentive to avoid nuclear war at all costs?
Unfortunately, if the lawyers find out about this, they may try and start a nuclear war to speed up their process of world domination. I don't know how they'll stop the cockroaches though.
Not only may antibacterial and other cleaning products prevent our immune system from learning how to cope with such bacteria, viruses and so forth, some of them do direct damage to the immune system and other parts of our body.
Swimming has long been thought to assist against asthma, not to cure it, but to lessen symptoms. However, chlorine, which is used in many swimming pools, damages lung tissue - not exactly helpful to an asthmatic.
Furthermore, with repeated exposure to some allergens, the body begins to react more and more violently. Consider dish-washing liquid. Many people have used it for many years without gloves with no apparent side effects. Then out of the blue they develop eczema-like rashes on their hands and wrists.
It is quite possible that rather than children's immune systems learning to cope with common allergens, such as pollen, that they have not been exposed to triggers or chemicals which the body reacts worse to with repeated exposure, such as bleach and other cleaning products.
Finally there are children who are born with asthma, hayfever, allergy to peanuts (or rather, the mould that grows on various nuts, related to penicillin), so cleaning products are likely not entirely to blame.... Out of curiosity, was the mother ever exposed to these products while pregnant?
The point is, we know very little. Not all immune systems are the same, the immune system works better if exposed to some things sufficiently early and worse if exposed to others and these things differ with each person.
It is actually a lot simpler than going through the book with a highlighter. As you have pointed out, there are a number of writing styles in use by the various authors of the Old and New Testaments, sometimes the same author may use different writing styles for different books. In general, however, each book is self-consistent.
For instance, the Pentateuch, the first 5 books of the Old Testament, are written in a number of styles. Genesis and Exodus are largely prose narrative with many figures of speech. Leviticus is largely a book of law. Numbers is intended as a historical account of the beginnings of the Jewish civilisation in Israel. The emphasis in Deuteronomy is of a more spiritual nature, outlining the love relationship of the Lord with his people.
Likewise, in the New Testament, we have the Gospel according to Luke, a doctor, which begins:
"Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophillus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught."
and we have the Gospel according to John, which focuses on signs of Jesus' identity and mission, presenting the facts as he saw them, and explaining further the meanings behind what occurred. Also by John (generally accepted as the same John, but potentially John the Presbyter), we have the book of Revelation, which is the only book in the Christian bible to be composed of entirely apocalyptic literature.
What I am trying to show is that there are sound reasons for not taking every word of the Bible literally. The authors did not intend each book to be taken literally and the writing styles show this. For more information, many recent publications of the Bible include introductions to each book, and some "study" Bibles offer commentaries from biblical scholars. Zondervan publishing usually include such introductions at the beginning of each book, especially in the New International Version (NIV) translation.
But you can't be so sure that the user won't pull it out while it's being written to. Or that it won't be kept in the same bag as the laptop (and hence have both stolen). Or that it won't be dropped and lost.
Finally, will a couple of gigabytes be large enough?
The best one I've heard of is Police Snooker - book a red car, book a different coloured car, book a red car, book a different coloured car... then book the different coloured cars in order.
More likely, in an infinite universe, we are of about average intelligence. There could be an infinite number of life forms more intelligent than us, and an infinite number of life forms less intelligent than us.
If the universe is not infinite, or if there is not an infinite amount of material to fill the infinite amount of space in the universe, then there is a non-infinitesimal chance that we are the most intelligent form of life in the universe.
Are you guys kidding me? You talk about terraforming as if it's just another trick we have in our arsenal, which it isn't. I'm not so sure, last I read we've been terraforming our own planet, making it comfortably warmer, since around 1850 when we began with things like steam engines. Surely our technology has advanced even further since then?
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Funny as that was, Korea is not where you'd usually find gold farmers. Korea is too developed for gold farming to be financially viable.
Starcraft as a national sport is another matter altogether, one that is financially viable.
Actually, unless the bus and ram run faster than the cpu or the cache memory , cache will have a place in the design. If ram and bus are faster than cache, there is no point having cache. If ram and bus are faster than cpu speed, your cpu is too slow and you'll get no benefit from having such a fast ram and bus speed.
Funny and true as your comment is, it does not take in to account situations like multiple users using the same machine.
That said, it is usually difficult to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of computer time if one or more users play WoW. I'm glad I quit.
Actually, by making an agreement with the author - giving him a license for his parody, they ARE protecting their IP. Later if somebody does infringe on their IP, the infringer cannot refer to the parody case and claim "But you didn't defend it then, so why now?" because they had a specific agreement in place allowing that.
Yeah, but it only takes ONE knowledgeable individual to either a) Make his techniques known to the slightly computer-literate masses or b) Put the comics up on bittorrent and then everyone can view them at their leisure for free.
It's a joke (product). Laugh.
Reminds me of:
Officer: Are you username ladiesman217?
Perhaps that would be a good thing, having the decepticons scouring the internet for youtube commenters.
I think he means 2 years in decimal, or 10 in binary, not 10 in decimal.
Unless of course you require two connections with the same username. Not possible with remote desktop.
I almost prefer it that way. I'd hate to think what a pig's breakfast Microsoft would make out of an ssh server.
It would be incompatible with every client except the new microsoft ssh client they'd release with it. It would be full of security holes until at least microsoft ssh server service pack 2. It would be unstable and sometimes require a registry setting to be manually edited, and sometimes not, depending on what order a seemingly unrelated update made its changes in. It would be integrated in to the os such that if the ssh server crashed, the entire os would crash. After enough people complained and enough law suits, they would introduce rudimentary support for non-microsoft ssh clients, but these would occasionally corrupt data. Then they would implement their own version of X forwarding. Not by using the pre-existing remote desktop connection code, but by writing an entirely new powertoy client and a server plugin. Horrible things would occur if one attempted to connect to a server that didn't support graphics forwarding when the powertoy was installed on the client. There would be no fallback option to overcome this feature. 640KB would be the maximum graphics memory that any single application could forward if everything else miraculously worked.
Have I missed anything? Probably.
If Telstra can extract another 10 years out of the existing copper before paying for fibre, they will.
In Australia, where we get bush fires that make other countries fires look like sputtering match sticks in comparison, insurance companies refuse to insure properties in high-risk areas against fire damage.
That said, what usually happens in a bush fire is either the owners stay inside and protect the house themselves, or our rural fire service does the job for them. When they aren't busy fighting fires in Australia, they get sent to the US to fight their fires and train their fire fighters.
It is possible to protect a house from bush fires - clear a large area around the house (nothing more than short grass), keep gutters free of leaves and other inflammable material, get a swimming pool and a pump and soak the house before the fire hits but leave enough water to put out fires afterwards. Stay indoors with windows shut, curtains or preferably blinds drawn, with gaps under doors blocked to prevent smoke from entering the house. Once the fire passes, go outside and put out the spot fires that have probably started around the house - on the roof and so forth.
No it's not the same. Genetic Engineering involves manipulating genes in such a way that the original plant would likely not have evolved. What you have described is natural selection. We select those plants that have desired traits.
A tendency to evolve in to harmful wheat has likely been bred out over the last few thousand years. Inserting new genes can have fantastic benefits for growing in tough conditions, growing larger seeds, immunity to various herbicides, but we do NOT know all the possible outcomes. See the case of GM potatoes being harmful to animals in a lab for instance.
That said, I'm all for GM, with proper investigation into all the effects of the new genes.
I don't know, it'd be comforting knowing that we'd all die and not have to put up with lawyers and cockroaches.
But if some of us would survive along with the lawyers and cockroaches (who makes that distinction anyway?) then surely that is a huge incentive to avoid nuclear war at all costs?
Unfortunately, if the lawyers find out about this, they may try and start a nuclear war to speed up their process of world domination. I don't know how they'll stop the cockroaches though.
I know of 3 people who have left their car doors unlocked, and still had their windows smashed. Go figure.
Not only may antibacterial and other cleaning products prevent our immune system from learning how to cope with such bacteria, viruses and so forth, some of them do direct damage to the immune system and other parts of our body.
Swimming has long been thought to assist against asthma, not to cure it, but to lessen symptoms. However, chlorine, which is used in many swimming pools, damages lung tissue - not exactly helpful to an asthmatic.
Furthermore, with repeated exposure to some allergens, the body begins to react more and more violently. Consider dish-washing liquid. Many people have used it for many years without gloves with no apparent side effects. Then out of the blue they develop eczema-like rashes on their hands and wrists.
It is quite possible that rather than children's immune systems learning to cope with common allergens, such as pollen, that they have not been exposed to triggers or chemicals which the body reacts worse to with repeated exposure, such as bleach and other cleaning products.
Finally there are children who are born with asthma, hayfever, allergy to peanuts (or rather, the mould that grows on various nuts, related to penicillin), so cleaning products are likely not entirely to blame.... Out of curiosity, was the mother ever exposed to these products while pregnant?
The point is, we know very little. Not all immune systems are the same, the immune system works better if exposed to some things sufficiently early and worse if exposed to others and these things differ with each person.
...And the locals would have welcomed the British, opening fire with whatever arms they could get their hands on... There, fixed it for you.It is actually a lot simpler than going through the book with a highlighter. As you have pointed out, there are a number of writing styles in use by the various authors of the Old and New Testaments, sometimes the same author may use different writing styles for different books. In general, however, each book is self-consistent.
For instance, the Pentateuch, the first 5 books of the Old Testament, are written in a number of styles. Genesis and Exodus are largely prose narrative with many figures of speech. Leviticus is largely a book of law. Numbers is intended as a historical account of the beginnings of the Jewish civilisation in Israel. The emphasis in Deuteronomy is of a more spiritual nature, outlining the love relationship of the Lord with his people.
Likewise, in the New Testament, we have the Gospel according to Luke, a doctor, which begins:
"Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophillus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught."
and we have the Gospel according to John, which focuses on signs of Jesus' identity and mission, presenting the facts as he saw them, and explaining further the meanings behind what occurred. Also by John (generally accepted as the same John, but potentially John the Presbyter), we have the book of Revelation, which is the only book in the Christian bible to be composed of entirely apocalyptic literature.
What I am trying to show is that there are sound reasons for not taking every word of the Bible literally. The authors did not intend each book to be taken literally and the writing styles show this. For more information, many recent publications of the Bible include introductions to each book, and some "study" Bibles offer commentaries from biblical scholars. Zondervan publishing usually include such introductions at the beginning of each book, especially in the New International Version (NIV) translation.
But you can't be so sure that the user won't pull it out while it's being written to. Or that it won't be kept in the same bag as the laptop (and hence have both stolen). Or that it won't be dropped and lost.
Finally, will a couple of gigabytes be large enough?
The best one I've heard of is Police Snooker - book a red car, book a different coloured car, book a red car, book a different coloured car... then book the different coloured cars in order.
It tastes awful unless you've been exercising in 33C weather, after which it tastes surprisingly good. First had it while living in Indonesia.
What about the halting problem? Are you sure it was going to finish loading in a finite amount of time?
Users could be creating content faster than he could download it...
More likely, in an infinite universe, we are of about average intelligence. There could be an infinite number of life forms more intelligent than us, and an infinite number of life forms less intelligent than us.
If the universe is not infinite, or if there is not an infinite amount of material to fill the infinite amount of space in the universe, then there is a non-infinitesimal chance that we are the most intelligent form of life in the universe.
Why should something change when you hover over it if your whopping great big finger is in the way?