I vaguely remember hearing of a Cosmac (?) 1802 bug, where if the instruction following (before?) an Enable (Disable?) Interrupts was even (odd?) parity, the instruction was a no-op. You can see I'm not all that good at remembering 25 year old stories for processors I never used....
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Round to the nearest even digit if the truncated value is.5 Otherwise there's a slight upward bias.
They always tout new and wonderful cars and boats and airplanes and tools and anything else that sounds fantastic, with absolutely no distinction as to the degree of possibility.
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You've been marked down as redundant. Either some idiot moderator marked you down because s/he is frightened by not knowing what you are talking about, or s/he DOES know, but hasn't got enough of a life to see the humor.
Either way, YOU WIN! I, who am about to be modded down as Off Topic, salute you!
No references of course, this is slashdot, but I read sometime in the past year or two of studies that confirmed the weekend effect. Maybe Nature or Science, forget by now.
(With that subject, I should of course link to that you-know-where, but I won't.)
It is NOT a legitimate concern that some site links to them. There is no reasonable reason to ever prevent any linking. If some other site makes it look like NPR content is their content, then sue them, send a cease and desist letter to their ISP, etc. Why is NPR so special that links to NPR appear to falsely claim that NPR advocates some opinion, and not for anybody else? Why can I link to MSNBC or The Register or the New York Times, but not NPR?
If someone is so weak willed that a mere link misguides them into thinking that proves advocacy, tough shit.
Allowing those artificial legal entities known as corporations is interference with market forces right from the get go. Income taxes are interference with market forces. Planning and zoning are interference.
Is it ok to interfere with the steel and farming industry market forces?
Get your prejudices lined up on the same side of the fence, you'll have less stress.
Indeed, I was a real high seas pirate
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No less authority than Radio Hanoi said so, in fact. My carrier (USS Midway CV-41) helped evacuate Saigon as it was falling in April 1975. Many helicopters landed on us with evacuees, and we later picked up many planes flown out to Thailand. Radio Hanoi said these planes and helicopters were legitimate war booty, and they wanted them back. Since we refused, we were nothing but a bunch of pirates. Our captain flew the Jolly Roger in acknowledgement.
To get serial for a moment, complaining about the new meaning of "piracy" is about as useful as complaining of "hacker" being abused by the press. Words mean what people want them to mean (c.f. Humpty Dumpty), meanings change over time and by region, and it does no good to get snippety about it.
Also -- are you just in it for the money, regardless of environment?
Bear in mind that a history of short jobs only leads to more short jobs. If long term stability if your goal, don't jump for short term salary gains.
I have had several long term jobs (4 years this one, 7 years, 9 years), and many short term jobs (6 months to 1 year). The short term jobs usually terminated due to bankruptcy, but sometimes because it was a lousy fit. I have always looked for interesting companies and interesting work rather than huge salaries. I get paid well enough that sweating $10K is not worth it. Sometimes I have taken a pay cut.
When I look for work, it is because the work and/or company is no longer interesting, and no counter-offer could have kept me there. If it was due to looming bankruptcy, ditto:-)
Every situation is different. As a general rule of thumb, I would say that if you are looking because you don't want your current job, regardless of reason, then you should make the commitment. If a counter-offer induces you to stay, then you weren't serious about leaving.
If I had ever had a job where the pay was so low taht I wanted to look elsewhere, and I didn't trust management enough to tell them I wanted a raise, then I wouldn't trust management enough to take a counter-offer.
But I have never had an offer out of the blue for more than I was making, except for a friend who has told me I can double my pay if I move to Silly Valley, and he knows that's not very likely. I have had goofy calls from crappy headhunters, but they were untrustworthy to start with and had no credibility.
... the WW II P-47 and F4U wouldn't have won any beauty contests, and neither would the F-4 from the 60s. Yet their pilots swore by them, and the stats proved them to be world beaters. You don't know what you're talking about.
Copyright is necessary as incentive for the creation of new works
Tell that to Bach, Shakespeare or any one else before probably 1900.
It may in a few instances encourage people to produce new works, but I bet in more cases it discourages people from using established works as the basis for new works. I bet it's a wash whether copyright helps or hinders in the grand picture.
All it really does is enable a few to get filthy rich while not helping the other 99.99% at all. Especially considering the few plagiarism cases that come to trial, where some rich artist (or corporation) is sued by some nobody for stealing his idea. The big guys can afford to steal and violate copyright because they have the lawyers to beat down the poor guys.
CPUs always do something, even if it's just look for something to do when "idle". Unless it uses the STOP / WAIT instruction to wait for something to wake it up. Maybe that's what the big bang was...
I guess I am naive here. What is the point of making the X-box or any other game console hard to hack?
I used to believe the old saw that compared game consoles to razors; lose money on the console, make up for it on the games. But I read something recently which seemed (to me) to prove that everyone except M$ was making money on consoles too. So although it might make sense for M$ to prevent hacking for use as other than a game console, why would others do so?
Is it to prevent people from playing ill-gotten copies of games?
If it comes to actual dogfighting, false cues like that take a split second off the enemy's reaction time. Recent fighter designs have vectoring egine nozzles, and there were concepts with canard (in the front) wings in addition to the regular wings. One interesting side affect of the combination was that the control surfaces (ailerons, elevators, rudders) were no longer as good an indication of what the plane was going to do next -- roll, turn, climb, dive. One of the tricks in dogfighting is to watch those controls to know what the enemy will do next. The plane could actually fly level but with a slightly nose down attitude. Not only was it good for strafing ground targets, it was very upsetting to another pilot trying to follow it aorund the sky. The false cues were confusing enough to give a solid edge in dogfighting.
Whether dogfighting itself is still of much use is a good question, since there aren't many airforces willing to battle the USA in the air. But the experts have been predicting the end of dogfighting since the 1950s.
Pity poor M$'s dilemna. If they sit back and do nothing, that will appear as tacit approval. Any arguments have to be FUD, which raises eyebrows, and may even work for a while, but when the truth is shown to be otherwise, their credibility drops. Either way, they lose. Sort of like a dam: do nothing, and the water comes down the river. Dam it, and you stop it for a while, but eventually the water comes down anyway, just faster. The water always comes down the river one way or the other.
Changing to Macs would require hardware changes too. Remember, the problem is not ideology, but $$$ -- they simply don't have money to spare on new hardware.
NASA acts like a bunch of prurient old maid temperance saloon bashers -- space is serious stuff only, no tourists no lookieloos no rubberneckers omigodno. We could have had space station hotels and cheap orbital access by now if NASA would just get out of the way. But noooo, space is for serious professionals only.
Sport used to mean something done without being necessary, such as the king hunting for sport.
My definition is pretty much the same; game is just another name for sport. However, it seems to me that the modern definition of most people is "big business with a ball".
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I vaguely remember hearing of a Cosmac (?) 1802 bug, where if the instruction following (before?) an Enable (Disable?) Interrupts was even (odd?) parity, the instruction was a no-op. You can see I'm not all that good at remembering 25 year old stories for processors I never used....
Round to the nearest even digit if the truncated value is .5 Otherwise there's a slight upward bias.
They always tout new and wonderful cars and boats and airplanes and tools and anything else that sounds fantastic, with absolutely no distinction as to the degree of possibility.
Welcome to the WonderfulWeirdWeb's online Popular Science.
You've been marked down as redundant. Either some idiot moderator marked you down because s/he is frightened by not knowing what you are talking about, or s/he DOES know, but hasn't got enough of a life to see the humor.
Either way, YOU WIN! I, who am about to be modded down as Off Topic, salute you!
No references of course, this is slashdot, but I read sometime in the past year or two of studies that confirmed the weekend effect. Maybe Nature or Science, forget by now.
We lived without sanitary water supplies for one hundred years.
We lived without electricity for 100 years.
We lived without roads and cars for 100 years.
We lived without airplanes for 100 years.
And of course, we lived without stupid comments on what we lived without for a long long time.
(With that subject, I should of course link to that you-know-where, but I won't.)
It is NOT a legitimate concern that some site links to them. There is no reasonable reason to ever prevent any linking. If some other site makes it look like NPR content is their content, then sue them, send a cease and desist letter to their ISP, etc. Why is NPR so special that links to NPR appear to falsely claim that NPR advocates some opinion, and not for anybody else? Why can I link to MSNBC or The Register or the New York Times, but not NPR?
If someone is so weak willed that a mere link misguides them into thinking that proves advocacy, tough shit.
Allowing those artificial legal entities known as corporations is interference with market forces right from the get go. Income taxes are interference with market forces. Planning and zoning are interference.
Is it ok to interfere with the steel and farming industry market forces?
Get your prejudices lined up on the same side of the fence, you'll have less stress.
No less authority than Radio Hanoi said so, in fact. My carrier (USS Midway CV-41) helped evacuate Saigon as it was falling in April 1975. Many helicopters landed on us with evacuees, and we later picked up many planes flown out to Thailand. Radio Hanoi said these planes and helicopters were legitimate war booty, and they wanted them back. Since we refused, we were nothing but a bunch of pirates. Our captain flew the Jolly Roger in acknowledgement.
To get serial for a moment, complaining about the new meaning of "piracy" is about as useful as complaining of "hacker" being abused by the press. Words mean what people want them to mean (c.f. Humpty Dumpty), meanings change over time and by region, and it does no good to get snippety about it.
Yes, good point. Do you trust your employer?
:-)
Also -- are you just in it for the money, regardless of environment?
Bear in mind that a history of short jobs only leads to more short jobs. If long term stability if your goal, don't jump for short term salary gains.
I have had several long term jobs (4 years this one, 7 years, 9 years), and many short term jobs (6 months to 1 year). The short term jobs usually terminated due to bankruptcy, but sometimes because it was a lousy fit. I have always looked for interesting companies and interesting work rather than huge salaries. I get paid well enough that sweating $10K is not worth it. Sometimes I have taken a pay cut.
When I look for work, it is because the work and/or company is no longer interesting, and no counter-offer could have kept me there. If it was due to looming bankruptcy, ditto
Every situation is different. As a general rule of thumb, I would say that if you are looking because you don't want your current job, regardless of reason, then you should make the commitment. If a counter-offer induces you to stay, then you weren't serious about leaving.
If I had ever had a job where the pay was so low taht I wanted to look elsewhere, and I didn't trust management enough to tell them I wanted a raise, then I wouldn't trust management enough to take a counter-offer.
But I have never had an offer out of the blue for more than I was making, except for a friend who has told me I can double my pay if I move to Silly Valley, and he knows that's not very likely. I have had goofy calls from crappy headhunters, but they were untrustworthy to start with and had no credibility.
... the WW II P-47 and F4U wouldn't have won any beauty contests, and neither would the F-4 from the 60s. Yet their pilots swore by them, and the stats proved them to be world beaters. You don't know what you're talking about.
Copyright is necessary as incentive for the creation of new works
Tell that to Bach, Shakespeare or any one else before probably 1900.
It may in a few instances encourage people to produce new works, but I bet in more cases it discourages people from using established works as the basis for new works. I bet it's a wash whether copyright helps or hinders in the grand picture.
All it really does is enable a few to get filthy rich while not helping the other 99.99% at all. Especially considering the few plagiarism cases that come to trial, where some rich artist (or corporation) is sued by some nobody for stealing his idea. The big guys can afford to steal and violate copyright because they have the lawyers to beat down the poor guys.
Raytheon's spokeswoman is Blanche Necessary...
Yes, like animals. No, animals don't wear pants.
CPUs always do something, even if it's just look for something to do when "idle". Unless it uses the STOP / WAIT instruction to wait for something to wake it up. Maybe that's what the big bang was...
...42!
They got bought up by Bridgestone some time ago.
I guess I am naive here. What is the point of making the X-box or any other game console hard to hack?
I used to believe the old saw that compared game consoles to razors; lose money on the console, make up for it on the games. But I read something recently which seemed (to me) to prove that everyone except M$ was making money on consoles too. So although it might make sense for M$ to prevent hacking for use as other than a game console, why would others do so?
Is it to prevent people from playing ill-gotten copies of games?
Is it to prevent cheating while playing a game?
Is it to prevent reverse engineering of a game?
I guess I just don't get it!
If it comes to actual dogfighting, false cues like that take a split second off the enemy's reaction time. Recent fighter designs have vectoring egine nozzles, and there were concepts with canard (in the front) wings in addition to the regular wings. One interesting side affect of the combination was that the control surfaces (ailerons, elevators, rudders) were no longer as good an indication of what the plane was going to do next -- roll, turn, climb, dive. One of the tricks in dogfighting is to watch those controls to know what the enemy will do next. The plane could actually fly level but with a slightly nose down attitude. Not only was it good for strafing ground targets, it was very upsetting to another pilot trying to follow it aorund the sky. The false cues were confusing enough to give a solid edge in dogfighting.
Whether dogfighting itself is still of much use is a good question, since there aren't many airforces willing to battle the USA in the air. But the experts have been predicting the end of dogfighting since the 1950s.
Pity poor M$'s dilemna. If they sit back and do nothing, that will appear as tacit approval. Any arguments have to be FUD, which raises eyebrows, and may even work for a while, but when the truth is shown to be otherwise, their credibility drops. Either way, they lose. Sort of like a dam: do nothing, and the water comes down the river. Dam it, and you stop it for a while, but eventually the water comes down anyway, just faster. The water always comes down the river one way or the other.
Changing to Macs would require hardware changes too. Remember, the problem is not ideology, but $$$ -- they simply don't have money to spare on new hardware.
It shoulda been SpaceCowboyNeal...
NASA acts like a bunch of prurient old maid temperance saloon bashers -- space is serious stuff only, no tourists no lookieloos no rubberneckers omigodno. We could have had space station hotels and cheap orbital access by now if NASA would just get out of the way. But noooo, space is for serious professionals only.
That's exactly what I meant! Thanks...
Sport used to mean something done without being necessary, such as the king hunting for sport.
My definition is pretty much the same; game is just another name for sport. However, it seems to me that the modern definition of most people is "big business with a ball".