The model 360 was the first machine I coded in assembler. I didn't realize until I learned assembler on a more sophisticated machine (an XDS mainframe) that the 360 didn't have stack instructions (i.e., push registers onto or pull registers off a stack).
Does anyone know whether IBM ever added push/pull instructions to their mainframes?
... red lights are staggered so that you will have to stop at every single one of them...
Around here, the traffic control idiots time lights so that you stop at every other traffic light. I've experimentally determined if you drive about 48mph in a 40mph zone, you'll rarely stop.
OTOH, cops love speeders, so this is not an optimal solution. The optimal solution is to time lights so as to present as few red lights as possible, but people in government around here are generally complete losers.
From what I undertsand, the enigma machine was very well designed (it was made by the Germans) and should have been impossible to crack if it wasn't for Mr Turning and his amazing brain.
Not to take anything away from Turing's brilliant work, but his Enigma accomplishments were based on the work of Polish cryptologists Rejewski, Rozycki, and Zygalski, who were breaking Enigma messages in 1932 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine/].
After all, if it's monitored three shifts then it shouldn't have to notify anyone offsite.
You obviously never worked in the data center where I worked. It could be (and sometimes was) 90 degrees on the raised floor, yet the ops staff couldn't be bothered to open the door and check.
The model, the oldest in the Boeing 777 family, has a range of 5,240 nautical miles (9,700 kilometres), according to the Boeing website. Its typical cruising speed at 35,000 feet is Mach 0.84.
Ya gotta consider if this aircraft was flying below radar, it was guzzling Jet A like there was no tomorrow. Its range will be nowhere near 5,000 miles under the condition of low altitude flight.
I only fly the little stuff. If there's a pilot around who flies the fanjet stuff, can he comment on a possible maximum range at low altitudes?
Let's shut down coal production, then go after fracking, then shut down every single hole in the ground that delivers any kind of petrochemical, then push in every control rod in every nuclear powe$ plan% in ghe U.X., t en go *fter
My suggestion: study Edward Tufte's site [http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/]. Read some of his books ("The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" is especially good), then get back to us.
I was probably in my mid-20s when I began to realize popular music was not only boring, but stupid as well. Most songs have about 25 words that get repeated over and over and over, ad nauseam. At about the same time I ran across a Moody Blues tune (the name won't surface at the moment) that seemed to have some elements of classical music.
Intrigued, I started listening to classical and kicked the pop habit. Give me Beethoven's Ninth over anything else that's ever been recorded.
I wonder whether others who aren't fond of most "music" also don't need to be entertained passively on a 7x24 basis and can find or create their own entertainment.
If RS gives up their brick and mortar stores, I'll say adios. As an online-only retailer, they couldn't possibly compete with Mouser, DigiKey, etc.
If they keep their brick and mortar stores, they need to put specs on the parts they sell. I needed a couple of snap-on ferrite chokes recently and got them at a local RS store. The parts didn't give the first inkling of the range of frequencies they were supposed to block.
How hard can it be to add "blocks RF at 5MHz and above" (or whatever) on the package?
Keurig coffee costs about $30/pound in the local big-name grocery store. I don't know which is worse: DRM or hideously overpriced coffee. I would avoid Keurig like the plague for either reason.
If you've ever been in the chipper room at a pulp plant, you can appreciate how wonderful that smell is, much better than PineSol or anything else that ever came out of a bottle.
"He [Kurzweil] believes, for example, that a significant portion of people alive today could end up living forever, thanks to the ministrations of ultra-intelligent computers and beyond-cutting-edge medical technology."
Que the advertisement for flying cars. Wait, there aren't any.
As Niels Bohr famously said, "Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future."
Even if Kurzweil's predictions come true (which I seriously doubt), I frankly don't want or need the help of "ultra-intelligent computers."
And "beyond-cutting-edge medical technology?" What a joke. Even if obamacare doesn't cause the self-destruction of the U.S. economy, no 99%er would be able to afford that kind of medical technology.
AI reminds me of fusion power: "It's 20 years in the future. And always will be." (Sorry, don't know the attribution for that quote.)
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"The plant appears alive, but it's only there for the good of the pathogen."
The citizen appears alive, but it's only there for the good of the government.
FTFY.
The model 360 was the first machine I coded in assembler. I didn't realize until I learned assembler on a more sophisticated machine (an XDS mainframe) that the 360 didn't have stack instructions (i.e., push registers onto or pull registers off a stack).
Does anyone know whether IBM ever added push/pull instructions to their mainframes?
... red lights are staggered so that you will have to stop at every single one of them...
Around here, the traffic control idiots time lights so that you stop at every other traffic light. I've experimentally determined if you drive about 48mph in a 40mph zone, you'll rarely stop.
OTOH, cops love speeders, so this is not an optimal solution. The optimal solution is to time lights so as to present as few red lights as possible, but people in government around here are generally complete losers.
This story could be the basis for the second remake of The Blob (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/)!
so far.
Who thinks the NSA has to explain this to us carefully? The major concern of these big companies is their next buck.
From what I undertsand, the enigma machine was very well designed (it was made by the Germans) and should have been impossible to crack if it wasn't for Mr Turning and his amazing brain.
Not to take anything away from Turing's brilliant work, but his Enigma accomplishments were based on the work of Polish cryptologists Rejewski, Rozycki, and Zygalski, who were breaking Enigma messages in 1932 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine/].
It's about time the Brits recognized Alan Turing. Without his Enigma and other crypto accomplishments, you might be speaking German.
You know not every situation has to be analogized to Hitler. Those that constantly make those analogies only crush the credibility of their arguments.
George Santayana famously said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Not every situation has an analogy to Hitler. Many that do have an analogy are worth repeating.
After all, if it's monitored three shifts then it shouldn't have to notify anyone offsite.
You obviously never worked in the data center where I worked. It could be (and sometimes was) 90 degrees on the raised floor, yet the ops staff couldn't be bothered to open the door and check.
A brief introduction to the methods of our new Soviet overlords.
The model, the oldest in the Boeing 777 family, has a range of 5,240 nautical miles (9,700 kilometres), according to the Boeing website. Its typical cruising speed at 35,000 feet is Mach 0.84.
Ya gotta consider if this aircraft was flying below radar, it was guzzling Jet A like there was no tomorrow. Its range will be nowhere near 5,000 miles under the condition of low altitude flight.
I only fly the little stuff. If there's a pilot around who flies the fanjet stuff, can he comment on a possible maximum range at low altitudes?
Assume there exists a spherical cow in a vacuum...
ROFLMAO! That's the punch line to one of the two physics jokes I know. Here's the other one: what do you get when you cross a rat with a pig?
rat pig sin theta
It would be more fitting, cheaper, and in line with the common man.
Let's shut down coal production, then go after fracking, then shut down every single hole in the ground that delivers any kind of petrochemical, then push in every control rod in every nuclear powe$ plan% in ghe U.X., t en go *fter
NO CARRI
My suggestion: get better speakers.
My suggestion: study Edward Tufte's site [http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/]. Read some of his books ("The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" is especially good), then get back to us.
I was probably in my mid-20s when I began to realize popular music was not only boring, but stupid as well. Most songs have about 25 words that get repeated over and over and over, ad nauseam. At about the same time I ran across a Moody Blues tune (the name won't surface at the moment) that seemed to have some elements of classical music.
Intrigued, I started listening to classical and kicked the pop habit. Give me Beethoven's Ninth over anything else that's ever been recorded.
I wonder whether others who aren't fond of most "music" also don't need to be entertained passively on a 7x24 basis and can find or create their own entertainment.
If RS gives up their brick and mortar stores, I'll say adios. As an online-only retailer, they couldn't possibly compete with Mouser, DigiKey, etc.
If they keep their brick and mortar stores, they need to put specs on the parts they sell. I needed a couple of snap-on ferrite chokes recently and got them at a local RS store. The parts didn't give the first inkling of the range of frequencies they were supposed to block.
How hard can it be to add "blocks RF at 5MHz and above" (or whatever) on the package?
Scientist revives bacteria that kills him could be a winner this year.
If memory serves, one of the people who helped resurrect the Spanish flu died, sadly, as a result.
Keurig provides a clean single-cup solution ...
Keurig coffee costs about $30/pound in the local big-name grocery store. I don't know which is worse: DRM or hideously overpriced coffee. I would avoid Keurig like the plague for either reason.
All modern commercial aircraft can land themselves.
If nothing goes wrong.
I'm not at all thrilled with the idea of a sky full of flying cars, irrespective of whether the pilot is a machine or a trained professional.
If you've ever been in the chipper room at a pulp plant, you can appreciate how wonderful that smell is, much better than PineSol or anything else that ever came out of a bottle.
Although the eastern USA had historic lows last month, the global average temperature was the hottest January on record.
And AGW almost caused a hurricane last fall.
I never failed to be amused at how AGW fanatics warp every single data point to say the sky is falling.
Flying cars have been regulated out of existence.
Citation needed.
"He [Kurzweil] believes, for example, that a significant portion of people alive today could end up living forever, thanks to the ministrations of ultra-intelligent computers and beyond-cutting-edge medical technology."
Que the advertisement for flying cars. Wait, there aren't any.
As Niels Bohr famously said, "Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future."
Even if Kurzweil's predictions come true (which I seriously doubt), I frankly don't want or need the help of "ultra-intelligent computers."
And "beyond-cutting-edge medical technology?" What a joke. Even if obamacare doesn't cause the self-destruction of the U.S. economy, no 99%er would be able to afford that kind of medical technology.
AI reminds me of fusion power: "It's 20 years in the future. And always will be." (Sorry, don't know the attribution for that quote.)