They might be able to decrease the reaction time, which would make the reactions smoother. Also, they can change the 4 little side engines from either being on or off, to being able to throttle different amounts.
I don't think there's a microkernel involved. The article says that the company that created this "positioned its Linux distributions as the only 'single-kernel real-time' Linux."
True, but attempting to keep it in memory and swapping it to disk doesn't seem nearly as sensible as just keeping it on the disk. For one thing, I don't believe that firefox keeps things compressed in cache (don't quote me on that). Also, it causes things that I'm probably more likely to look at or use to swap out.
Can't just figure out somehow that my (secondary) computer has 92MB of ram, so it probably shouldn't cache 105MB in memory? Or that I only have 1GB of memory on this computer, so it probably shouldn't cche 1.5GB (it happened on a rather image-heavy site)?
Isn't that what my old 56k modem did? It normally ran at around 40Kbps, because my line wasn't perfect, but if my line was even worse, then the speed would drop even more.
Right, but I certainly hope that the CI driver doesn't check every kernel module every time it's run - that might be a bit too slow. It's possible that it checks it every time it's paged in, but I really doubt that. So once you've modified the driver, either it will work fine as is, or you can use it to patch CI.dll's code in memory, which should certainly be possible, as they will both be ring 0.
Microsoft could sign patches with their private key, then include the public key in Windows to let them check that. AFAIK, they do that with the Xbox 360 and some other stuff already. The hard part will be making sure that the part that does the validation hasn't been cracked already - Apple is having problems doing that, and they even have a combined hardware/software solution.
That might make more sense if every drive has bad reviews, but if one drive has reviews that are much worse than the others, it would be likely that there is something wrong with that drive.
This strikes me as somewhat unnecessary. We could just charge the people who dispose the packaging what it costs to dispose if it. Then, they would have an incentive (small, but the same as for the manufacturer) to buy products with less packaging. The manufacturer should therefore make less packaging, so people buy more of that product (with an incentive equal to the current law). It seems much more direct to me.
Well, I just priced out a new workstation comparing the top of the line MacPro and an equivalently configured Dell. I ended up buying the 3.0Ghz version of the MacPro for $1000 cheaper than an equivalent Dell.
Interesting. I just priced out the HP equivalent of the top-end Macbook Pro, and it comes to $1484.99 (vs. $2,799.00).
The bottom end Macbook Pro is $1,999, while the vaguely equivalent costs $1094.99. These aren't nearly as similar as the previous ones are: the macbook has a higher resolution, an X1600, and digital audio i/o, while the HP has 512 MB more RAM and a Go 7400. Nevertheless, I wouldn't be willing to spend $900 more for those features that the Macbook has.
No, you should be thinking in terms of space-time. 1 minute = 60 seconds. 60s*c = 5.90142634*10^10 feet. Cubing that, we get 2.05527989*10^32 ft^3/ft, or the surface area of 4*10^16 earths, rather larger than what you got.
If their boss demands a recent history of the economy in Brazil, these losers will just hop online and get the answers rather than going to the library and doing their research
You mean to tell me that they won't even go down to Brazil and investigate the economy themselves?
How about you link to these "tests". Encryption does not change data so that you can't get back the original data. When you connect securely to a web site, does all your information you send and receive get garbled?
It's not too terrible to program an x86 in assembly (all those extra instructions can sometimes come in handy, in a way), but I'd really rather not implement an x86. The instruction decoder alone would take ages to work out.
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They might be able to decrease the reaction time, which would make the reactions smoother. Also, they can change the 4 little side engines from either being on or off, to being able to throttle different amounts.
No, the Macbook Pro.
I don't think there's a microkernel involved. The article says that the company that created this "positioned its Linux distributions as the only 'single-kernel real-time' Linux."
Well, that is why I'm running Linux on it. My laptop has over 10 times the memory of that computer (which I got for free).
True, but attempting to keep it in memory and swapping it to disk doesn't seem nearly as sensible as just keeping it on the disk. For one thing, I don't believe that firefox keeps things compressed in cache (don't quote me on that). Also, it causes things that I'm probably more likely to look at or use to swap out.
Can't just figure out somehow that my (secondary) computer has 92MB of ram, so it probably shouldn't cache 105MB in memory? Or that I only have 1GB of memory on this computer, so it probably shouldn't cche 1.5GB (it happened on a rather image-heavy site)?
Isn't that what my old 56k modem did? It normally ran at around 40Kbps, because my line wasn't perfect, but if my line was even worse, then the speed would drop even more.
Are kernel stacks swapped out? I could see an exploit involving those and a return pointer (well, not on x86-64, but otherwise...).
Right, but I certainly hope that the CI driver doesn't check every kernel module every time it's run - that might be a bit too slow. It's possible that it checks it every time it's paged in, but I really doubt that. So once you've modified the driver, either it will work fine as is, or you can use it to patch CI.dll's code in memory, which should certainly be possible, as they will both be ring 0.
Microsoft could sign patches with their private key, then include the public key in Windows to let them check that. AFAIK, they do that with the Xbox 360 and some other stuff already. The hard part will be making sure that the part that does the validation hasn't been cracked already - Apple is having problems doing that, and they even have a combined hardware/software solution.
Well, would a temporary girlfriend work? I'm pretty sure you could find one for that amount of money. Otherwise, I think you would need to pay more.
I previewed that and I still messed it up.
Is that why they reason why they include a TPM chip on the motherboard so you can't run OS X on other computers?
That might be a bit challenging, considering that I don't think that GPUs work very well with fixed-point (or any non-floating point) operations.
How can you tell if a plant's feeling fear? Does it start quivering (or is that just the wind of people coming in)?
That might make more sense if every drive has bad reviews, but if one drive has reviews that are much worse than the others, it would be likely that there is something wrong with that drive.
Well, 0 time passes in the photon's frame of reference (sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)), so that makes it rather difficult to really say what it sees.
A) Any pressure from the microwaves on the walls.
and
B) Conservation of Momentum
This strikes me as somewhat unnecessary. We could just charge the people who dispose the packaging what it costs to dispose if it. Then, they would have an incentive (small, but the same as for the manufacturer) to buy products with less packaging. The manufacturer should therefore make less packaging, so people buy more of that product (with an incentive equal to the current law). It seems much more direct to me.
Well, I just priced out a new workstation comparing the top of the line MacPro and an equivalently configured Dell. I ended up buying the 3.0Ghz version of the MacPro for $1000 cheaper than an equivalent Dell.
Interesting. I just priced out the HP equivalent of the top-end Macbook Pro, and it comes to $1484.99 (vs. $2,799.00).
The bottom end Macbook Pro is $1,999, while the vaguely equivalent costs $1094.99. These aren't nearly as similar as the previous ones are: the macbook has a higher resolution, an X1600, and digital audio i/o, while the HP has 512 MB more RAM and a Go 7400. Nevertheless, I wouldn't be willing to spend $900 more for those features that the Macbook has.
On second thought, maybe they meant 325 cubic meters per fortnight, giving us a somewhat less impressive figure of .57 CFM.
No, you should be thinking in terms of space-time. 1 minute = 60 seconds. 60s*c = 5.90142634*10^10 feet. Cubing that, we get 2.05527989*10^32 ft^3/ft, or the surface area of 4*10^16 earths, rather larger than what you got.
If their boss demands a recent history of the economy in Brazil, these losers will just hop online and get the answers rather than going to the library and doing their research
You mean to tell me that they won't even go down to Brazil and investigate the economy themselves?
How about you link to these "tests". Encryption does not change data so that you can't get back the original data. When you connect securely to a web site, does all your information you send and receive get garbled?
It's not too terrible to program an x86 in assembly (all those extra instructions can sometimes come in handy, in a way), but I'd really rather not implement an x86. The instruction decoder alone would take ages to work out.