While you're right that that would be an ideal use for such a device, that's not what they're asking for:
PROGRAM GOALS AND MILESTONES
The goal of this program is to develop a payload-carrying soft robotics platform that can be used in military operations to access denied territory through small openings and perform functions.
Sure sounds more like covert ops (sneak in and blow them up) to me.
I think it's more like the car commercials where someone's backing into a parking place, and the caption says "Professional driver. Closed course. Do not attempt", while the narrator is saying "...with available (meaning optional) blahblah...".
While it is cache-friendly, it still has to be fetched from memory. We're bitching about the ISA here, and the sillyness with the BP register is because the x86 doesn't have an SP indexed addressing mode, so BP is needed instead to get to the passed params. Like it or not, it's 3 ops (push,mov,pop) per subroutine that really shouldn't be there. And don't get me started about the single-accumulator nature of the instruction set.
There was an experiment where people wore goggles that made everything upside-down and reversed left-to-right. After about 6 weeks (IIRC) wearing them, suddenly the test subjects woke up one morning and could see everything normally. When the goggles were then removed, they saw everything upside-down and reversed for another 6 weeks. So changing the brains sensory processing is definitely possible.
It seems I'm a troll. I really wasn't being mean, I was trying to tell you something. I know white on black is very trendy, but it can be hard to read. On a lot of sites like yours, I simply do a ^A, which highlites the whole page.
On Linux, using Mozilla 1.7.13 & Firefox 1.5, the site really is nigh-impossible to read. The Courier font is particulary hard to make out, and the green isn't much better. On Windows, using Mozilla 1.7.5 & Firefox 1.0 (not my machine), it looks somewhat better, they render about the same, and the Windows fonts look better. IE 6 looks the best of all, somehow the text is more contrasty against the background.
Perhaps a #666666 background, something a little less deep black?
Regards
I tried to read your blog, I really did, but it's white and green text in a little itty bitty font on a black background, i.e.: completely unreadable. After hitting ^++++, some of it is readable, except for the blockquoted text.
Too true. We're more than happy to go whining to the UN or impose unilateral sanctions when some other country isn't doing what we want, but when the rest of the world tries to tell us that we're being the assholes, well, we can just ignore that.
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Actually, Lore bought KARR - one evil prototype to another.
Will this be on the test?
Sure sounds more like covert ops (sneak in and blow them up) to me.
I think it's more like the car commercials where someone's backing into a parking place, and the caption says "Professional driver. Closed course. Do not attempt", while the narrator is saying "...with available (meaning optional) blahblah...".
Neither is Vista.
You got me. I read the first two thirds of the first page, posted, then continued reading, and said "OOOPS!".
While it is cache-friendly, it still has to be fetched from memory. We're bitching about the ISA here, and the sillyness with the BP register is because the x86 doesn't have an SP indexed addressing mode, so BP is needed instead to get to the passed params. Like it or not, it's 3 ops (push,mov,pop) per subroutine that really shouldn't be there. And don't get me started about the single-accumulator nature of the instruction set.
There was an experiment where people wore goggles that made everything upside-down and reversed left-to-right. After about 6 weeks (IIRC) wearing them, suddenly the test subjects woke up one morning and could see everything normally. When the goggles were then removed, they saw everything upside-down and reversed for another 6 weeks. So changing the brains sensory processing is definitely possible.
Yabbut....
push bp
mov bp,sp
<function body>
pop bp
ret
Has to be fetched from main memory, decoded and executed, no matter what happens internally to the CPU.
And they did say "of All Time" ;-)
They forgot:
1. the hearth
2. the knife
3. the rasp
4. the stirrup
5. the saw
6. the steam engine
7. the light bulb
etc.
"The ships hung in the air in much the same way that bricks don't."
There's a special, reserved place in heaven for anybody who can turn a phrase like that.
It seems I'm a troll. I really wasn't being mean, I was trying to tell you something. I know white on black is very trendy, but it can be hard to read. On a lot of sites like yours, I simply do a ^A, which highlites the whole page.
On Linux, using Mozilla 1.7.13 & Firefox 1.5, the site really is nigh-impossible to read. The Courier font is particulary hard to make out, and the green isn't much better. On Windows, using Mozilla 1.7.5 & Firefox 1.0 (not my machine), it looks somewhat better, they render about the same, and the Windows fonts look better. IE 6 looks the best of all, somehow the text is more contrasty against the background.
Perhaps a #666666 background, something a little less deep black?
Regards
I tried to read your blog, I really did, but it's white and green text in a little itty bitty font on a black background, i.e.: completely unreadable. After hitting ^++++, some of it is readable, except for the blockquoted text.
Heh. Making them use RPM should keep them third world for a long time.
Too true. We're more than happy to go whining to the UN or impose unilateral sanctions when some other country isn't doing what we want, but when the rest of the world tries to tell us that we're being the assholes, well, we can just ignore that.
Too bad the parent is posted AC, he's "right on the money". Mod up.
Just for you: The PIF file
2. Windows ME
3. The BSOD
4. Microsoft Bob
5. The Three-Finger Salute
Is there a prize?
Make them out of gold and give them away.
Ask not for whom he trolls, he trolls for thee.
Ha ha. My favorite oxymoron: "Open VMS". The question isn't really "Can you break in?" but "Why would you want to?".
I thought I read "Computer Associates Proposes Rigorous Voting Machine Testing", and my head started to hurt.