(And yes, I'm aware that lines that never cross are not necessarily parallel. They must be coplanar to be parallel. Lines that are not coplanar and never cross are askew. My question/answer example above that "begs the question" also happens to be a fallacious argument.)
"Beg the question" is a shortening of "beggaring the question"--ie. answering a question with the question itself. "Why don't parallel lines cross? Because lines that never cross are parallel!"
If you look at the definition for beggar, you'll see one of the definition "One who assumes in argument what he does not prove." (Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, (C) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.)
In fact, this meaning of beggar has survived as a submeaning of 'beg.'
This link on dictionary.reference.com supports my point. Look at definitions 3a and 3b.
So, the parent poster to your post is quite correct. His statement was not a hypothesis, but rather closer to fact, based on accepted usage.
Granted, standard American usage seems to treat "beg the question" as a synonym for "raise the question", but that's a rather incorrect usage, IMHO.
Ok... ok... I'll rephrase: Are there really x86-based laptops for which his feature doesn't start mysteriously crapping out on you after the third time you use it?;-)
It sounds like at least Apple's got it right, which is good. Unfortunately, the software I run for work on my laptop is all Windows based.
You're right, I've conflated suspend with hibernate.
I've had problems with both suspend and hibernate.
I've got my laptop set to suspend-on-close, and I've tried the old "close the lid, walk from meeting room A to meeting room B, open the lid" trick a couple times, and have met with mixed success. I've lost keyboard, had spontaneous reboots during resume, etc.
Hibernate is monotonically worse than suspend. Unfortunately, hibernate is what I really want most of the time.
Now I forget: Is there a suspend->hibernate transition that kicks in at some point just based on time (not battery)? If so, then maybe all my problems really are with hibernate.
I have a Dell C640 running WindowsXP Professional that does.
Specifically, I encountered each of these problems before I gave up on hibernating my laptop and resuming later.
Laptop hangs during suspend/hibernate, with a pretty,
blank blue screen. (I use dark blue for my backdrop, and that's what it displays.)
Laptop resumes, but I have no keyboard. I have mouse, though. Kinda hard to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to log in.
Laptop resumes, I log in, and then mouse/trackpad "go away" after a second. Gotta go to the Synaptics mouse control panel and initiate a "reset" to get them back.
Laptop freezes during resume.
Laptop starts to resume, decides to reboot instead. Too bad for that Word document I had open.
Of course, I use a lot of command prompts. Maybe that's it? (No, I'm not running old DOS apps. I'm using command-line utilities compiled with MinGW and Cygwin.)
That might be true for some desktop machines. However, as the annoyed user of a recent Dell laptop running WinXP, I disagree. I tried using suspend and hibernate on this laptop a few times. It worked the first couple times I tried it. Then, I started having weird problems, such as "no keyboard after resume", or "mouse and touchpad mysteriously die after unlocking" or "spontaneous reboot on resume."
(Another unrelated annoying things include all the crashes-at-shutdown in the ATA driver, and the fact that the laptop no longer sees the DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive anymore.)
and implemented FAR better than in even the latest mainstream Linux distros
No arguments there.:-) Honestly, I've never seen anyone get power management (at least 'suspend/restore') truly 'right.'
Are there really laptops for which this feature doesn't start mysteriously crapping out on you after the third time you use it?
Seriously. Every time I've gotten a new laptop (3 so far), I try out the suspend feature. It works the first 3 or 4 times I try it, and after that, it's a crapshoot. And, no, I don't load down my laptops with all sorts of useless crap. I do have corporate-mandated backup software and antivirus on it, though.
Are you referring to Windows' propensity to give you a login prompt, and then proceed to continue grinding the disc with who-knows-what in the meantime?
The trafic jam scene in Office Space was shot in Dallas, where I live, and believe me, it's actually much worse.
Close--the initial shot in the first 10 seconds of the film faces east along 635. The DoubleTree is visible on the right, the Preston Road exit is visible in the distance. (Folks at work (TI) thought those buildings at the right were Executive Center 1/2/3 at the 75 interchange, but they're wrong.) The rest of the scene, with the old guy and his walker, I'm pretty sure were shot around Austin.
As for travel time in D/FW--no kidding! I used to live in north Richardson (Renner Rd) and commute to Forest Lane and 75. 10 miles. Anywhere from 15 minutes to 1+ hour. Now I live near Fort Worth (North Richland Hills, to be exact), 30 miles away, and my commute is 45 minutes to 1.5 hrs. A little less of a variance, but I'm at a right-angle to most of the traffic. I've also learned the back-routes to avoid LBJ.
I've compared notes with my coworkers who live in Allen and McKinney, and they describe horrendous commute times that are on a par with mine. That's despite living closer to work than I do!
People have tried to talk me into riding the TRE + DART to come to work, since I spend so much time in my car. No way--my laptop batteries don't last that long, and my lap doesn't have sufficient thermal capacity. It takes me about 10 to 15
minutes just to get to the TRE train station in Hurst. The TRE takes about 45 minutes from where I'm at. The DART Rail, about 30, plus there's the average "synchronization overhead" of about 15 minutes waiting for the next train. Once I get to the other side of the DART Rail trip, I would have to wait another 7.5 minutes on average for the TI Shuttle, for the 5 minute shuttle ride. Add it all up, and it's nearly 2 hours, one way. Forget it!
The solution to my commute? A laptop, a cellphone, VPN software, a WiFi card and a T-Mobile Hotspot subscription. I plop my happy ass at Starbucks, Coffee Haus in Arlington, or at the UTA Library. (The view is much better there, anyway, than at work...) Much nicer.
I will move closer to work, but I'm under no delusion that it will actually save me much commute time.
It's factory 240HP, but with a smaller supercharger pully and custom air intake, it's closer to 270HP. (Of course, for mileage, it's probably making less now.) I was assuming a typical hybrid would be in the 100-120HP range.
In the lifetime of my car I will put approximately 200000 miles on it at approximately 20 miles per gallon. Mine, being supercharged, takes premium gas. Let's say the cost of fuel averaged around $1.75 a gallon. My total fuel cost for the life of my car is therefore approximately $17,500.
If I had a hybrid that got twice the fuel economy (40 MPG), with lower grade gas (say, $1.50 a gallon), and lasted as long, my total fuel cost for the life of the vehicle would be closer to $7,500. That's a $10,000 savings.
I would lose in the bargain, however, about 140HP and probably some seating room and trunk space.
Of course, I'm one of the few nuts that holds a car for 6 or 7 years and actually puts 200k miles on it. (I'm at just shy of 190k now, and I'm holding out a few more months to buy a new one.)
If the network is 10.0.0.0/24, as the original post implied, then yes there is. If it has some other netmask smaller than/24, then no. (If the netmask is larger than/24, then his address is still a broadcast address on that particular network.)
The broadcast address is defined as the bitwise inverse of your netmask logically ORed with your IP address.
More accurately, the broadcast address is that network address with the host field assigned a value of all 1s. Since the host field in an IP address is in the low-order bits, and since netmasks are a contiguous string of 1s followed by a contiguous string of 0s, this is equivalent to the statement I made above.
Yes, kinda. What's interesting w/ qubits, though, is that they're more like "complex bits" than two-bit values. That is, they're like a unit vector that can point one of four equally spaced directions.
Oddly, most quantum math, though, seems to use three-valued logic. I never quite understood that. One of the guys I worked with was doing his PhD on quantum computing, and he'd wander by with all sorts of neat stuff. Much of it was truth tables based around a balanced three-valued logic employing "-1, 0, +1". My best understanding of it was that these values represented the projection of a qubit onto an axis, but I am likely wrong.
The most fundamental gate in a quantum computer is the "square root of NOT" gate. Running a 0 through it gives an unknown value. Running the unknown value through a second such gate gets you a 1. Going back to the "four direction vector" idea above, you can think of this gate as a "rotate 90 degrees" gate.
I use the "modulo-ADD" aspect of XOR when implementing finite-field arithmetic. CRCs, Reed-Solomon codes, etc. all use finite fields (or more likely, the special case of finite fields called Galois fields). Do a Google Search to learn more.
I found at least one example quickly that begs to differ.
Take a look at this tasty morsel found therein:
"[6] Larceny - Pawnbrokers - Conversion of Chattel - Good Faith Acquisition - Effect. In a prosecution of a pawnbroker for failure to restore a chattel to its true owner after an unauthorized pawn, it is immaterial that the pawnbroker obtained the chattel under a claim of title made in good faith."
Elsewhere, you'll find that good faith acquisition is a mitigating factor in the seriousness of the conversion, but it does not obviate the obligation to return the stolen property.
Conversion
The tort of conversion is similar to the tort of trespass to chattel. Both require a defendant to interfere with another's right of possession in personal property. Likewise, a defendant must have intended to exercise control over the property in a manner inconsistent with the owner's rights. It is not required that the defendant know that the property belonged to another. However, for conversion, the interference must be so serious, in terms of duration and extensiveness of use, that it warrants that the defendant pay the personal property's full value.
In other words, either you give it back in good shape in a reasonable period of time, or you pay the rightful owner for it. So, I guess in one sense, you're right--you don't need to give it back. You are liable to pay for it, though, to the rightful owner. What you paid to the thief that sold it to you is immaterial.
No, but if a thief sells you a stolen VCR for $20, you're obligated to return the VCR to its rightful owner, even if you were unaware that it was stolen property when you purchased it.
And good luck getting your $20 back from the crack dealer.
And to follow up on the other half of your question that Royster didn't answer, the "sysvinit" thing you're thinking of refers to a System V-style initialization sequence, as opposed to a BSD-style.
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(And yes, I'm aware that lines that never cross are not necessarily parallel. They must be coplanar to be parallel. Lines that are not coplanar and never cross are askew. My question/answer example above that "begs the question" also happens to be a fallacious argument.)
"Beg the question" is a shortening of "beggaring the question"--ie. answering a question with the question itself. "Why don't parallel lines cross? Because lines that never cross are parallel!"
If you look at the definition for beggar, you'll see one of the definition "One who assumes in argument what he does not prove." (Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, (C) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.) In fact, this meaning of beggar has survived as a submeaning of 'beg.' This link on dictionary.reference.com supports my point. Look at definitions 3a and 3b.
So, the parent poster to your post is quite correct. His statement was not a hypothesis, but rather closer to fact, based on accepted usage.
Granted, standard American usage seems to treat "beg the question" as a synonym for "raise the question", but that's a rather incorrect usage, IMHO.
--JoeAgreed. It "raises the question", not "begs the question."
Ok... ok... I'll rephrase: Are there really x86-based laptops for which his feature doesn't start mysteriously crapping out on you after the third time you use it? ;-)
It sounds like at least Apple's got it right, which is good. Unfortunately, the software I run for work on my laptop is all Windows based.
--JoeYou're right, I've conflated suspend with hibernate.
I've had problems with both suspend and hibernate. I've got my laptop set to suspend-on-close, and I've tried the old "close the lid, walk from meeting room A to meeting room B, open the lid" trick a couple times, and have met with mixed success. I've lost keyboard, had spontaneous reboots during resume, etc.
Hibernate is monotonically worse than suspend. Unfortunately, hibernate is what I really want most of the time.
Now I forget: Is there a suspend->hibernate transition that kicks in at some point just based on time (not battery)? If so, then maybe all my problems really are with hibernate.
--JoeI have a Dell C640 running WindowsXP Professional that does.
Specifically, I encountered each of these problems before I gave up on hibernating my laptop and resuming later.
Of course, I use a lot of command prompts. Maybe that's it? (No, I'm not running old DOS apps. I'm using command-line utilities compiled with MinGW and Cygwin.)
--JoeThat might be true for some desktop machines. However, as the annoyed user of a recent Dell laptop running WinXP, I disagree. I tried using suspend and hibernate on this laptop a few times. It worked the first couple times I tried it. Then, I started having weird problems, such as "no keyboard after resume", or "mouse and touchpad mysteriously die after unlocking" or "spontaneous reboot on resume."
(Another unrelated annoying things include all the crashes-at-shutdown in the ATA driver, and the fact that the laptop no longer sees the DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive anymore.)
No arguments there. :-) Honestly, I've never seen anyone get power management (at least 'suspend/restore') truly 'right.'
--JoeAre there really laptops for which this feature doesn't start mysteriously crapping out on you after the third time you use it?
Seriously. Every time I've gotten a new laptop (3 so far), I try out the suspend feature. It works the first 3 or 4 times I try it, and after that, it's a crapshoot. And, no, I don't load down my laptops with all sorts of useless crap. I do have corporate-mandated backup software and antivirus on it, though.
--JoeAre you referring to Windows' propensity to give you a login prompt, and then proceed to continue grinding the disc with who-knows-what in the meantime?
--Joe430 day uptime, thank you.
Here's the data at Netcraft. It shows a smaller number since Netcraft hasn't checked in over a month.
--JoeClose--the initial shot in the first 10 seconds of the film faces east along 635. The DoubleTree is visible on the right, the Preston Road exit is visible in the distance. (Folks at work (TI) thought those buildings at the right were Executive Center 1/2/3 at the 75 interchange, but they're wrong.) The rest of the scene, with the old guy and his walker, I'm pretty sure were shot around Austin.
As for travel time in D/FW--no kidding! I used to live in north Richardson (Renner Rd) and commute to Forest Lane and 75. 10 miles. Anywhere from 15 minutes to 1+ hour. Now I live near Fort Worth (North Richland Hills, to be exact), 30 miles away, and my commute is 45 minutes to 1.5 hrs. A little less of a variance, but I'm at a right-angle to most of the traffic. I've also learned the back-routes to avoid LBJ.
I've compared notes with my coworkers who live in Allen and McKinney, and they describe horrendous commute times that are on a par with mine. That's despite living closer to work than I do!
People have tried to talk me into riding the TRE + DART to come to work, since I spend so much time in my car. No way--my laptop batteries don't last that long, and my lap doesn't have sufficient thermal capacity. It takes me about 10 to 15 minutes just to get to the TRE train station in Hurst. The TRE takes about 45 minutes from where I'm at. The DART Rail, about 30, plus there's the average "synchronization overhead" of about 15 minutes waiting for the next train. Once I get to the other side of the DART Rail trip, I would have to wait another 7.5 minutes on average for the TI Shuttle, for the 5 minute shuttle ride. Add it all up, and it's nearly 2 hours, one way. Forget it!
The solution to my commute? A laptop, a cellphone, VPN software, a WiFi card and a T-Mobile Hotspot subscription. I plop my happy ass at Starbucks, Coffee Haus in Arlington, or at the UTA Library. (The view is much better there, anyway, than at work...) Much nicer.
I will move closer to work, but I'm under no delusion that it will actually save me much commute time.
--JoeRead me Dr. Memory?
[I'm assuming your .sig is a Firesign reference.]
Talk about a typo making you do a double-take. Thanks for the visual. Now I'm imagining deer with runny noses trying to drink coffee.
--JoeIt's factory 240HP, but with a smaller supercharger pully and custom air intake, it's closer to 270HP. (Of course, for mileage, it's probably making less now.) I was assuming a typical hybrid would be in the 100-120HP range.
--JoeIn the lifetime of my car I will put approximately 200000 miles on it at approximately 20 miles per gallon. Mine, being supercharged, takes premium gas. Let's say the cost of fuel averaged around $1.75 a gallon. My total fuel cost for the life of my car is therefore approximately $17,500.
If I had a hybrid that got twice the fuel economy (40 MPG), with lower grade gas (say, $1.50 a gallon), and lasted as long, my total fuel cost for the life of the vehicle would be closer to $7,500. That's a $10,000 savings.
I would lose in the bargain, however, about 140HP and probably some seating room and trunk space.
Of course, I'm one of the few nuts that holds a car for 6 or 7 years and actually puts 200k miles on it. (I'm at just shy of 190k now, and I'm holding out a few more months to buy a new one.)
--JoeIf the network is 10.0.0.0/24, as the original post implied, then yes there is. If it has some other netmask smaller than /24, then no. (If the netmask is larger than /24, then his address is still a broadcast address on that particular network.)
--JoeI guess this is your lucky day! ;-)
Would you like to see what's behind door #2?
(Ok, so I'm feeling like a bit of a smart-ass right now. Blame it on the scotch.)
--JoeThe broadcast address is defined as the bitwise inverse of your netmask logically ORed with your IP address.
More accurately, the broadcast address is that network address with the host field assigned a value of all 1s. Since the host field in an IP address is in the low-order bits, and since netmasks are a contiguous string of 1s followed by a contiguous string of 0s, this is equivalent to the statement I made above.
Lots more detail in RFC 917.
--JoeUsing the broadcast address for your machine? Cute. I'm sure the network administrators love you.
--JoeYes, kinda. What's interesting w/ qubits, though, is that they're more like "complex bits" than two-bit values. That is, they're like a unit vector that can point one of four equally spaced directions.
Oddly, most quantum math, though, seems to use three-valued logic. I never quite understood that. One of the guys I worked with was doing his PhD on quantum computing, and he'd wander by with all sorts of neat stuff. Much of it was truth tables based around a balanced three-valued logic employing "-1, 0, +1". My best understanding of it was that these values represented the projection of a qubit onto an axis, but I am likely wrong.
The most fundamental gate in a quantum computer is the "square root of NOT" gate. Running a 0 through it gives an unknown value. Running the unknown value through a second such gate gets you a 1. Going back to the "four direction vector" idea above, you can think of this gate as a "rotate 90 degrees" gate.
More information from Google.
--JoeXOR is addition on each digit modulo the number base. Another way to think of it is as "Add without carries."
Thus, in tertiary logic, the truth table would be: (X = A XOR B)
I use the "modulo-ADD" aspect of XOR when implementing finite-field arithmetic. CRCs, Reed-Solomon codes, etc. all use finite fields (or more likely, the special case of finite fields called Galois fields). Do a Google Search to learn more.
--JoeI found at least one example quickly that begs to differ. Take a look at this tasty morsel found therein:
Elsewhere, you'll find that good faith acquisition is a mitigating factor in the seriousness of the conversion, but it does not obviate the obligation to return the stolen property.
Here's another little bit I found on FindLaw:
In other words, either you give it back in good shape in a reasonable period of time, or you pay the rightful owner for it. So, I guess in one sense, you're right--you don't need to give it back. You are liable to pay for it, though, to the rightful owner. What you paid to the thief that sold it to you is immaterial.
--JoeNo, but if a thief sells you a stolen VCR for $20, you're obligated to return the VCR to its rightful owner, even if you were unaware that it was stolen property when you purchased it.
And good luck getting your $20 back from the crack dealer.
--JoeAnd to follow up on the other half of your question that Royster didn't answer, the "sysvinit" thing you're thinking of refers to a System V-style initialization sequence, as opposed to a BSD-style.
--JoeOops.... you're right. My basic point still stands, of course.
--Joe