Interesting... You posted this at a score of 2,/. doesn't give moderation totals for U, it looks like the author of the article gets an automatic bonus. Cool.
Assuming all children are good, and Santa follows the United States standard of legal minors being under 18. The number of goodchilren under the age of 12 is much smaller, I'd think. And what says his sleigh doesn't have an aeordynamic ceramic heatshield, like the Space Shuttle? Given the evidence, North Pole technology is centuries ahead of ours, it might be one huge, thin diamond. He doesn't need to carry allthe gifts with him at once, he can go back to the north pole to pick them up in batches.
On a theological level, the logistical problems caused by more and more good Christian kids as the population expands would have the Church hurting Santa - he can't do his job if the Church does theirs. So, Santa must use a sliding scale of goodness - only a constant numberof the best children get presents directly from Santa every year.
Neural networks, like our central nervous system, are basically pattern-matchers, so we can define any emotion as just the existence of any pattern. To say a machine has quasi-emotions, as if it were alive, is just to name a set of states that the machine can have as "happy" or "sad".
It just goes to prove that running Linux is all that will make your computer happy.
Totally. To yearn to be something you're not is the most human thing, maybe there should be a movie about a robot that wants to be human, and then at the end it finds out it was human all along. Nah. It'd be too hard to write.
This way of plot-making really is seriously wrong. Like if there was a movie about a girl who's good in school, and sexism makes her want to be a boy, and at the end she gets a sex-change. Sickening put that way, isn't it?
It's not just a down feeling, it's a chemical imbalance
Your brain is a huge mass of chemical signals. To say that these are two different things, and that a pill is the way to restore a chemical balance, is impossible to prove. In a different society, people will live in a different environment and likely have some different "background" emotional state. Now do we define ourselves and our chemical balance as sane and everything outside of arbitrary limits to be "imbalanced"? And the simple fact of chemical dependency prevents pills from working alone. If your chemical balance is a product of your environment (and if it was genetic, it would probably be bad enough to cause retardation) then you will work against the effects of the drugs to restore that balance [in an unchanging environment]. A lifestyle change is essential. And even if pills are used to assist in the changing of lifestyle, withdrawal must be faced when a tenuous balance has been reached at the end of therapy.
I don't know how many manic-depressive people you know, but attitudes toward them by those close to them (in the workplace, etc) are not always caused by an attitude of "he's a wimp. He needs pills." There's an element of "if anyone else was acting like that, he'd try to stop, and he doesn't appear to be trying to stop." And the dogma that they acquire, that pills will solve their problems, can cause them (Disclaimer: them is one person) not to try very hard.
As anyone who lives in a town where prozac and other "mood stabilizers" will tell you, these medicines are quite different from aspirin. Children who take large amounts of ritlin (and I'm not simply speaking of one now) become totally inattentive. And the attitudes of parents in many places causes entire generations of towns to be drugged. My father used to work in such a town, and ritlin was an over-the-counter drug. It was sad.
I've gotta stop now. But the forces causing drugs to be popular in psychiatry are not entirely benevolen
I was thinking... compilers do so much work to unroll+optimize loops. It would be simple to just tag each spot in the instruction queue w/ a counter. Then, implement 2 instructions: 1 says "add n to the counters on the last m instructions" and the other says "don't take the next n instructions out of the queue-a loop instruction is coming up". Simply executing the held instructions is easy-all the processor's mechanisms are already dedicated to making that work. Instructions that don't use the registers in the loop keep on executing in the free part of the queue. For flexibility, say both instructions act as nops if n > the size of the queue. Exceptions are generated if you attempt to call a function within the block.
It only works on small+simple loops, but that's just right for doing a bunch of load or store operations to init an array from a bunch of objects, or vice versa.
Whadda y'all think?
And it appeared here first, so it can't be copyrighted by someone else, right?
If you want to roll yer own. Still, it's an undocumented fact that this doesn't work w/ virt-derived objects. The average C++ book/class won't warn you.
Hear hear! Writing C++ without knowing what comes out the rear end of the compiler is a very un-geek thing to do. And there are a few things that C++ just can't do. Just try putting a virtually derived object into a reallocatable block of memory (a special feature of the MacOS)! Theoretically, it's possible to fix, but the hidden pointers get corrupted anyway when the block is moved. I would be completely in the dark about this issue if it weren't for my trusty disassemble button.
And for RISC ISAs, it takes all of a few hours a day for a week or two to get all the important instructions down, starting w/ no knowledge.
And this will be current for how many months before the Itanium comes out? It amazes me that they're selling this.
Maybe it'll be a few more years;v>
Besides, x86Asm isn't that much better than compiler-generated code on a Pentium II/III. Microcode, followed by rearrangement of the internal instructions, destroys any of the loving care that was put into writing this. On a 286, it should really fly, tho.;v>
And if it's a few K, I can't imagine it provides too many services. I wrote a sprite graphics engine in PPCAsm, and was surprised by how much space it takes up. Once you unroll a few loops, the bytes start adding up.
The helpful answer: Try the Motorola PowerPC 601 User's Manual to learn the instruction set and architecture. This is the definitive reference, nobody bothers to write anything after this. A PPCAsm compiler comes w/ Metrowerks' Discover Programming.
The discouraging answer: If you don't already own CodeWarrior, you probably have some other stuff to learn first.
The distrustful answer: Why is your homepage www.ms.com? Maybe I shouldn't tell you this...
Troll... I mean it! We wouldn't have so many people who do write d00d and stuff if we didn't have articles like this... but now since/. is part of a publicly traded company, it's anything to get more readers.
I dunno why I'm writing this... no one's still lookin' at this discussion.
I like me arrows... never had trouble with them, until I got my new Apple Mini-Keyboard. Still, the Mac arrow-chords (opt to move 1 word, cmd to move beg/end of line, ctrl to move to next intercap) keep me away from my mouse. (And with my mouse, that's a good thing.)
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Dude! I go to Paul D. Schreiber High School,
Port Washington, Long Island!
Coincidence? I think yes...
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You meezpelt 'grammar'! You unt yer peethy race veel fall to der Merriam-Webster uber-race!
Sorry. In bad taste.
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Interesting... /. doesn't give moderation totals for U, it looks like the author of the article gets an automatic bonus. Cool.
You posted this at a score of 2,
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Assuming all children are good, and Santa follows the United States standard of legal minors being under 18. The number of goodchilren under the age of 12 is much smaller, I'd think. And what says his sleigh doesn't have an aeordynamic ceramic heatshield, like the Space Shuttle? Given the evidence, North Pole technology is centuries ahead of ours, it might be one huge, thin diamond.
He doesn't need to carry allthe gifts with him at once, he can go back to the north pole to pick them up in batches.
On a theological level, the logistical problems caused by more and more good Christian kids as the population expands would have the Church hurting Santa - he can't do his job if the Church does theirs. So, Santa must use a sliding scale of goodness - only a constant numberof the best children get presents directly from Santa every year.
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The link to ThinkGeek was given by Joe Mahoney, I'd assumeÉ /. link is to FatBrain, which is independent.
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All a good argument for Libertarianism, in any case. (Protective gov->controlling gov)
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Neural networks, like our central nervous system, are basically pattern-matchers, so we can define any emotion as just the existence of any pattern. To say a machine has quasi-emotions, as if it were alive, is just to name a set of states that the machine can have as "happy" or "sad".
It just goes to prove that running Linux is all that will make your computer happy.
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But changing yourself to fit in is wrong, so the movie is sick. (See above comment.)
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Totally. To yearn to be something you're not is the most human thing, maybe there should be a movie about a robot that wants to be human, and then at the end it finds out it was human all along.
Nah. It'd be too hard to write.
This way of plot-making really is seriously wrong. Like if there was a movie about a girl who's good in school, and sexism makes her want to be a boy, and at the end she gets a sex-change. Sickening put that way, isn't it?
Well, at least it is all imaginary.
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MaxiVision? I'm feeling dijected.
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he's right, y'know.
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It's not just a down feeling, it's a chemical imbalance
Your brain is a huge mass of chemical signals. To say that these are two different things, and that a pill is the way to restore a chemical balance, is impossible to prove. In a different society, people will live in a different environment and likely have some different "background" emotional state. Now do we define ourselves and our chemical balance as sane and everything outside of arbitrary limits to be "imbalanced"? And the simple fact of chemical dependency prevents pills from working alone. If your chemical balance is a product of your environment (and if it was genetic, it would probably be bad enough to cause retardation) then you will work against the effects of the drugs to restore that balance [in an unchanging environment]. A lifestyle change is essential. And even if pills are used to assist in the changing of lifestyle, withdrawal must be faced when a tenuous balance has been reached at the end of therapy.
I don't know how many manic-depressive people you know, but attitudes toward them by those close to them (in the workplace, etc) are not always caused by an attitude of "he's a wimp. He needs pills." There's an element of "if anyone else was acting like that, he'd try to stop, and he doesn't appear to be trying to stop." And the dogma that they acquire, that pills will solve their problems, can cause them (Disclaimer: them is one person) not to try very hard.
As anyone who lives in a town where prozac and other "mood stabilizers" will tell you, these medicines are quite different from aspirin. Children who take large amounts of ritlin (and I'm not simply speaking of one now) become totally inattentive. And the attitudes of parents in many places causes entire generations of towns to be drugged. My father used to work in such a town, and ritlin was an over-the-counter drug. It was sad.
I've gotta stop now. But the forces causing drugs to be popular in psychiatry are not entirely benevolen
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c'mon! upload it to files.com or something and post a link!
This is offtopic, but this article inspired it...
I was thinking... compilers do so much work to unroll+optimize loops. It would be simple to just tag each spot in the instruction queue w/ a counter. Then, implement 2 instructions: 1 says "add n to the counters on the last m instructions" and the other says "don't take the next n instructions out of the queue-a loop instruction is coming up". Simply executing the held instructions is easy-all the processor's mechanisms are already dedicated to making that work. Instructions that don't use the registers in the loop keep on executing in the free part of the queue.
For flexibility, say both instructions act as nops if n > the size of the queue. Exceptions are generated if you attempt to call a function within the block.
It only works on small+simple loops, but that's just right for doing a bunch of load or store operations to init an array from a bunch of objects, or vice versa.
Whadda y'all think?
And it appeared here first, so it can't be copyrighted by someone else, right?
If you want to roll yer own.
Still, it's an undocumented fact that this doesn't work w/ virt-derived objects. The average C++ book/class won't warn you.
Hear hear! Writing C++ without knowing what comes out the rear end of the compiler is a very un-geek thing to do. And there are a few things that C++ just can't do. Just try putting a virtually derived object into a reallocatable block of memory (a special feature of the MacOS)! Theoretically, it's possible to fix, but the hidden pointers get corrupted anyway when the block is moved. I would be completely in the dark about this issue if it weren't for my trusty disassemble button.
And for RISC ISAs, it takes all of a few hours a day for a week or two to get all the important instructions down, starting w/ no knowledge.
And this will be current for how many months before the Itanium comes out? It amazes me that they're selling this.
;v>
;v>
Maybe it'll be a few more years
Besides, x86Asm isn't that much better than compiler-generated code on a Pentium II/III. Microcode, followed by rearrangement of the internal instructions, destroys any of the loving care that was put into writing this. On a 286, it should really fly, tho.
And if it's a few K, I can't imagine it provides too many services. I wrote a sprite graphics engine in PPCAsm, and was surprised by how much space it takes up. Once you unroll a few loops, the bytes start adding up.
BeOS is highly portable... it can't be built on that much asm.
The helpful answer: Try the Motorola PowerPC 601 User's Manual to learn the instruction set and architecture. This is the definitive reference, nobody bothers to write anything after this. A PPCAsm compiler comes w/ Metrowerks' Discover Programming.
The discouraging answer: If you don't already own CodeWarrior, you probably have some other stuff to learn first.
The distrustful answer: Why is your homepage www.ms.com? Maybe I shouldn't tell you this...
Troll... I mean it! We wouldn't have so many people who do write d00d and stuff if we didn't have articles like this... but now since /. is part of a publicly traded company, it's anything to get more readers.
I dunno why I'm writing this... no one's still lookin' at this discussion.
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Seriously, is this the most interesting news Malda can find? What this place needs is a new way to choose topics.
I guess Nav sucks so bad the gov doesn't consider it a threat no matter what!
Sorry. Troll.
I like me arrows... never had trouble with them, until I got my new Apple Mini-Keyboard. Still, the Mac arrow-chords (opt to move 1 word, cmd to move beg/end of line, ctrl to move to next intercap) keep me away from my mouse. (And with my mouse, that's a good thing.)
It sounds better if you write ".05 microns".
"Makes"..."Created"...
You'd think it's alive!
calm down yer affection fer the router!