Is avoiding the trial and error step advisable? Certainly it won't always give you a material with the desired property but how many times do those 'errors' have their own unique benefits? For example the search for a synthetic rubber gave us silly putty.
And even if AOL lose they've marked the spot with a big X. There are going to be plenty of people believing that there is gold hidden on the property and they'll all be sneaking around and digging holes hoping to get a piece of the treasure. It'll be worse than an invasion of moles (or whatever the local burrowing creatures are.)
Through much experience I have learned that drinking and coding work very well together. That is until the next morning when you can't figure why it won't make any more, why there are lots of strange debugging printfs such as 1 pint, 2, pints, 3 pints, floor, and why the hell it doesn't do what its supposed to.
I had this problem too. Got mine to work by uninstalling completeley and reinstalling. Checking out the first line in the Installation Notes does tell you to install into an empty directory and not over an old installation.
Isn't there some way to work out a reliable escrow service that can act as a middleman for these types of transactions (if desired)?
It would seem that the courier companies are in a good position to offer this kind of service. They already have the more difficult delivery infrastructure in place.
Mr A places order with Mrs B. Mrs B ships by Escrow Couriers, Mr A pays Escrow Couriers. When Mr A signs off the delivery Mrs B receives money. The fees for the service are just added to the delivery charge. Seems quite simple.
I have to ask why this had to go to space? Surely it would have been possible to construct a target moving on a wire (or some such) which the subject has to grab? You can then move the target with constant speed/acceleration as required. It would also allow you to have an acceleration > g to test if adaptation is faster when you miss the target.
Hotrail have had an SMP chipset for the Athlon available for some time - I just can't find anybody who is using it yet. There were mentions of IBM and others on their site but just no info. SG
GCC is now reunited as 2.95, and this is largely based on the egcs code base. So isn't it the case that the superior compiler won? I think if GCC 2.8 had been better then that's what we'd be using. That's open source evolution. Besides, from what I remember, the same people actively contributed to egcs and gcc.
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It would be great if the new transmeta CPU (if that's what it is) implemented some of the features of the transputer - specifiaclly its ability to scale extremely well. If this was combined with the ability to make the chip change personality...
Imagine you have a board of these low cost CPU's with great message passing capabilities. Things like graphics accelerators could become obsolete. Instead you configure the current CPU to be extremely good at vector transformations, or bump mapping... For better performance you just add a couple of extra processors. It would allow all sorts of other hardware devices to be implemented on a single CPU in a large system - allocating as many processors as necessary - and optimising each one.
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How do you mean? If you save the state of the hardware in the machine to memory it's just like a context switch, granted it's more complicated. If you have a machine with a large memory, you segment it up, eg firs 64Mb to Linux, second to *BSD etc.
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But would you really opt to run Linux in an x86 emulation mode? Surely running it on the native instruction set/processor, or under an emulation of say Alpha would be much better.
This could also make the idea of vmware obsolete, imagine being able to save/restore the machine state to special areas of disk/memory. You could cycle through operating systems rather than terminals using alt + F key.
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An article in today's Guardian talks about a new LED they've made from Gallium Nitride. It uses eighty percent less power than a conventional light bulb, plus it will last for 100,000 hours compared to 1,000 for normal. This is a quote from the column:
"In principle all these fluorescent tubes, so long and ugly, you could replace with these tiny light emitting diodes in any shape you want. The actual LED is a fraction of a millimetre across."
The output of these devices is equal to that of a conventional tungsten filament bulb.
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Typically an asynchronous circuit will require twice the number of connections, one for each bit of data, and a second to indicate if the data is valid or invalid. You can add additional lines in order to control the propogation of a calculation through an ALU (or whatever). This can be visualised as a wave front moving through the chip. Theoretically, it will be 50% faster than an equivalent clocked chip because for an ADD, the carry bit will only be carried halfway.
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Is avoiding the trial and error step advisable? Certainly it won't always give you a material with the desired property but how many times do those 'errors' have their own unique benefits? For example the search for a synthetic rubber gave us silly putty.
But you can use a gpo to rename the local administrator account across your domain or rename it on single machines via lusrmgr.
But really, what would be the ethical implications of eating lab grown human tissue?
They probably would have got further making the request under the UK Data Protection Act.
And even if AOL lose they've marked the spot with a big X. There are going to be plenty of people believing that there is gold hidden on the property and they'll all be sneaking around and digging holes hoping to get a piece of the treasure. It'll be worse than an invasion of moles (or whatever the local burrowing creatures are.)
The UK police force is implementing a system like this, it was reported on The Register last week.
By charging an arm and leg for support on software products infested with bugs and riddled with security holes.
Through much experience I have learned that drinking and coding work very well together. That is until the next morning when you can't figure why it won't make any more, why there are lots of strange debugging printfs such as 1 pint, 2, pints, 3 pints, floor, and why the hell it doesn't do what its supposed to.
I had this problem too. Got mine to work by uninstalling completeley and reinstalling. Checking out the first line in the Installation Notes does tell you to install into an empty directory and not over an old installation.
It would seem that the courier companies are in a good position to offer this kind of service. They already have the more difficult delivery infrastructure in place.
Mr A places order with Mrs B. Mrs B ships by Escrow Couriers, Mr A pays Escrow Couriers. When Mr A signs off the delivery Mrs B receives money. The fees for the service are just added to the delivery charge. Seems quite simple.
I have to ask why this had to go to space? Surely it would have been possible to construct a target moving on a wire (or some such) which the subject has to grab? You can then move the target with constant speed/acceleration as required. It would also allow you to have an acceleration > g to test if adaptation is faster when you miss the target.
I'm sure the article means billion as 10^9 not 10^12. 10^12 stopped being used quite some time ago.
$ ping moon
PING moon (212.58.226.40): 56 octets data
64 octets from 212.58.226.40: icmp_seq=0 ttl=2000 time=1.283 s
1.283 x 300000000 = 385000000
So the moon is 385000 km from earth. Easy!
You mean porting KDE to Windows?
Hotrail have had an SMP chipset for the Athlon available for some time - I just can't find anybody who is using it yet. There were mentions of IBM and others on their site but just no info. SG
GCC is now reunited as 2.95, and this is largely based on the egcs code base. So isn't it the case that the superior compiler won? I think if GCC 2.8 had been better then that's what we'd be using. That's open source evolution. Besides, from what I remember, the same people actively contributed to egcs and gcc.
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It would be great if the new transmeta CPU (if that's what it is) implemented some of the features of the transputer - specifiaclly its ability to scale extremely well. If this was combined with the ability to make the chip change personality...
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Imagine you have a board of these low cost CPU's with great message passing capabilities. Things like graphics accelerators could become obsolete. Instead you configure the current CPU to be extremely good at vector transformations, or bump mapping... For better performance you just add a couple of extra processors. It would allow all sorts of other hardware devices to be implemented on a single CPU in a large system - allocating as many processors as necessary - and optimising each one.
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How do you mean? If you save the state of the hardware in the machine to memory it's just like a context switch, granted it's more complicated. If you have a machine with a large memory, you segment it up, eg firs 64Mb to Linux, second to *BSD etc.
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But would you really opt to run Linux in an x86 emulation mode? Surely running it on the native instruction set/processor, or under an emulation of say Alpha would be much better.
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This could also make the idea of vmware obsolete, imagine being able to save/restore the machine state to special areas of disk/memory. You could cycle through operating systems rather than terminals using alt + F key.
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Could someone do a translation of the Finnish article please, Babelfish just isn't good enough!
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Yes, all will be revealed at comdex Las Vegas, Transmeta, Roswell, JFK, Luthor-King ...
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Strip the ipf-howto.txt from the URL and see what you get, it might make you smile!
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An article in today's Guardian talks about a new LED they've made from Gallium Nitride. It uses eighty percent less power than a conventional light bulb, plus it will last for 100,000 hours compared to 1,000 for normal. This is a quote from the column:
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"In principle all these fluorescent tubes, so long and ugly, you could replace with these tiny light emitting diodes in any shape you want. The actual LED is a fraction of a millimetre across."
The output of these devices is equal to that of a conventional tungsten filament bulb.
No matter what it looks like, there isn't a
Typically an asynchronous circuit will require twice the number of connections, one for each bit of data, and a second to indicate if the data is valid or invalid. You can add additional lines in order to control the propogation of a calculation through an ALU (or whatever). This can be visualised as a wave front moving through the chip. Theoretically, it will be 50% faster than an equivalent clocked chip because for an ADD, the carry bit will only be carried halfway.
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