A payment card, on the other hand -- be it a credit card or a bank debit card -- is itself a service. You use that piece of plastic at the whim of some financial institution. If whatever power chooses to rescind your right to that service -- in other words, if, for whatever reason, they turn off your card -- POOF! It doesn't matter how much "money" you have. You can no longer carry out transactions. You have been effectively ostracized from society.
carrying moderate ammounts of cash might keep you alive for a few days if your lucky (so would having a well stocked kitchen though) but unless you hoard a lot of cash then your gonig to have to get cash from the bank pretty quickly (unless ofc you are earning in cash but most people don't).
i guess you could take up cash in hand work like illegal immigrants do though (though you could do that even if your previous system had always been cards).
if the government is out to get you then your in real trouble unless you either have a huge stash of cash or can find a way to make income outside normal society like illegal immigrants do (and you can bet if cash is eliminated people looking for cheap labour will find some way to keep thier illegal immigrants alive). Problems with a particular company can be dealt with in the short term at least by having multiple accounts.
ok so drill plug and screw is a little more work than just nailing in but you can do it almost anywhere on the wall (whereas with a timber framed wall unless its very light you have to attatch to the timber frame)
and afaict there is nothing the ISPs can do about it. BT puts no service level agreement on ADSL lines and can take a long time to fix stuff if theier engineers are busy with something else. and BT won't talk to dsl customers directly
i guess if you are lucky enough to live in a part of the uk with both dsl and cable and are currently on cable you could threaten the cableco with switching to DSL but like BT theese big companies probablly won't take much notice.
the hotel will still demand payment if your corp card is declined
afiact the difference is:
if your company goes under and you have a corp card then the most you'll have to fork out for yourself is a few nights accomodation somewhere and tavel home.
if you use your own card then depending on the reimbursement policy you could easilly lose the full cost of your current trip and any previous trips since you were last reimbursed.
well i presume this will come as part of the breathing regulator unit so i can't imageine hygine will be much more of an issue than it already is.
an ordinary handheld computer probablly won't be much use underwater and i imagine the masks turbulance, any contamination etc will mean that anything with a display would need much bigger text than normal.
you don't need to know how to write to a filesystem to do some serious damage. dumping random garbage on random sectors of the drive would be perfectly nasty to any partition on the drive for example.
you could program a linksys wrt54g to do that. the crude and moderately secure way would be to dnat all http traffic to an internal webserver and drop all other traffic by default. then make that web server add and remove entries to bypass the dnat/drop.
someone could still steal an existing ip but that would require fairly advanced knowlage.
Second, killing an author to move his popular work into the public domain does not guarantee the murderer any profits because the monopoly would be gone.
indeed but can you imagine an anti-copyright orginisation that operated by killing authors.
this could happen with the current life plus system too but its far less likely as you would have to wait 90 years for your killings results.
I presume you were an undergraduate somewhere and know the ways you are forced to buy new texts. Minor revisions marketed as new editions, rotating question sets, etc.
from the looks of his homepage url it looks like he is here in the uk. We don't seem to have anything like the issues with textboooks that you yanks do.
this idea of forcing students to buy lots of expensive textbooks seems like a US anomoly not a general thing accross the world.
i've never been to america so i dunno how poor thier coverage is, but i've only been to a few places here in the uk where mobiles didn't work
whereas with a 10M range like you propose even if you put one in every lamp post you'd lose coverage as soon as you walked to the middle of a small park or down an unlit sideroad.
the trouble is especailly with omnidirectional antennas its fantasically inefficiant and that efficiancy drops off with the SQUARE of the distance.
and you need enough power to get the signal back. so your equation would be something like
new transmit power at base station= old transmit power at source station divided by old receive power at phone multiplied by old transmit power at phone = massive.
and thats not accounting for the losses inherent in going from radio to electricity and back.
its feasible for very short range simple devices (e.g. rfid) but totally unfeasible for something like cellphones.
emulators work well for stuff thats old enough
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e.g. stuff from the days before dedicated 3D hardware and hugely complex pipelined processors.
but i've never had much sucess in running games of the duke vintage or slightly older under dosbox (if anyone has got it working well could you post the settings you use?).
there is a gap between whats still easy to run on its original platform and what runs well in emulation and i think its widening.
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modern pcs still have a midi synth and modern display systems can happilly output the old low res art.
making a source based port that works with the original game data shouldn't really be a huge problem.
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on the other hand i think the tactic used by the likes of 3DR and ID is reasonable. namely release the source so people can port it but keep selling the original game with the game data.
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i can't imagine good compiler design will become a basic skill. Making a basic compiler is relatively easy afaict. Making a compiler that will hold its own against even gcc in the performance stakes is HARD.
the reason chess is easier to code now now is that 1: people have done it before (which was already the case with compilers when rms wrote his) and 2: you can throw more brute force at the problem.
could you have written that simple chess ai to perform acceptablly on a 70s era computer. or on a computer of your own deisgn. I doubt it.
Intel has a compiler division, AMD does not. Intel compilers generate fast code. Their compilers are free for non-commerical use. Their compilers work with Linux.
and they put in an if (cpu not intel) then (use slow code path even if the feature bits indicate the fast one would be fine)..........
methane from farm manure i woulodn't say this is localised.
burning methane is a lot better than releasing it (methane is a far far more potent greenhouse gas than C02 and if your going to burn it may as well use the energy.
Their product is plentiful yeah they make a lot of them. so what exactly ms makes a lot of copies of windows
cheap competitors are generally cheaper.
ever increasing in quality ever increasing in processing power yes but also using more power and needing more elaborate cooling to keep working.
not to mention embroiled in healthy competition. hardly, AMD lacks the capactity to take the big name deals and noone else even comes close to INTEL in the pc processor game.
is when a device keeps interrupting you to turn of its interrupts and check for packets on your terms.
i'm pretty sure linux now does this for network cards.
also i bet flusing the 34 stage pipeline (i'm assuming that roughly maps to 34 instructions worth of time lost) is fairly small compared to the time taken to deal with the interrupt.
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so do RIPE own RIPE-NCC or what then?
A payment card, on the other hand -- be it a credit card or a bank debit card -- is itself a service. You use that piece of plastic at the whim of some financial institution. If whatever power chooses to rescind your right to that service -- in other words, if, for whatever reason, they turn off your card -- POOF! It doesn't matter how much "money" you have. You can no longer carry out transactions. You have been effectively ostracized from society.
carrying moderate ammounts of cash might keep you alive for a few days if your lucky (so would having a well stocked kitchen though) but unless you hoard a lot of cash then your gonig to have to get cash from the bank pretty quickly (unless ofc you are earning in cash but most people don't).
i guess you could take up cash in hand work like illegal immigrants do though (though you could do that even if your previous system had always been cards).
if the government is out to get you then your in real trouble unless you either have a huge stash of cash or can find a way to make income outside normal society like illegal immigrants do (and you can bet if cash is eliminated people looking for cheap labour will find some way to keep thier illegal immigrants alive). Problems with a particular company can be dealt with in the short term at least by having multiple accounts.
she can't handle a decent hammer drill then?
ok so drill plug and screw is a little more work than just nailing in but you can do it almost anywhere on the wall (whereas with a timber framed wall unless its very light you have to attatch to the timber frame)
and afaict there is nothing the ISPs can do about it. BT puts no service level agreement on ADSL lines and can take a long time to fix stuff if theier engineers are busy with something else. and BT won't talk to dsl customers directly
i guess if you are lucky enough to live in a part of the uk with both dsl and cable and are currently on cable you could threaten the cableco with switching to DSL but like BT theese big companies probablly won't take much notice.
the hotel will still demand payment if your corp card is declined
afiact the difference is:
if your company goes under and you have a corp card then the most you'll have to fork out for yourself is a few nights accomodation somewhere and tavel home.
if you use your own card then depending on the reimbursement policy you could easilly lose the full cost of your current trip and any previous trips since you were last reimbursed.
i see 3 main possibilities
1: they decided the needed to finish the job sometime and this gave them a perfect excuse.
2: they actually belived the wmd stuff
3: oil.
well i presume this will come as part of the breathing regulator unit so i can't imageine hygine will be much more of an issue than it already is.
an ordinary handheld computer probablly won't be much use underwater and i imagine the masks turbulance, any contamination etc will mean that anything with a display would need much bigger text than normal.
you don't need to know how to write to a filesystem to do some serious damage. dumping random garbage on random sectors of the drive would be perfectly nasty to any partition on the drive for example.
you could program a linksys wrt54g to do that. the crude and moderately secure way would be to dnat all http traffic to an internal webserver and drop all other traffic by default. then make that web server add and remove entries to bypass the dnat/drop.
someone could still steal an existing ip but that would require fairly advanced knowlage.
Second, killing an author to move his popular work into the public domain does not guarantee the murderer any profits because the monopoly would be gone.
indeed but can you imagine an anti-copyright orginisation that operated by killing authors.
this could happen with the current life plus system too but its far less likely as you would have to wait 90 years for your killings results.
I presume you were an undergraduate somewhere and know the ways you are forced to buy new texts. Minor revisions marketed as new editions, rotating question sets, etc.
from the looks of his homepage url it looks like he is here in the uk. We don't seem to have anything like the issues with textboooks that you yanks do.
this idea of forcing students to buy lots of expensive textbooks seems like a US anomoly not a general thing accross the world.
as a british student i've never really understood it.
can't your lecturers be bothered to provide sufficiant supporting rescources with thier courses?!
i'm coming to the end of my second year doing electronic systems engineering in the uk and so far my textbook count stands at
bought: 0
borrowed from my tutor: 1
borrowed from the library: about 4 or 5 not sure exactly
his body was left in a charred mess and he ended up in a powersuit with a ventilator but he didn't die.
i've never been to america so i dunno how poor thier coverage is, but i've only been to a few places here in the uk where mobiles didn't work
whereas with a 10M range like you propose even if you put one in every lamp post you'd lose coverage as soon as you walked to the middle of a small park or down an unlit sideroad.
the trouble is especailly with omnidirectional antennas its fantasically inefficiant and that efficiancy drops off with the SQUARE of the distance.
and you need enough power to get the signal back. so your equation would be something like
new transmit power at base station= old transmit power at source station divided by old receive power at phone multiplied by old transmit power at phone = massive.
and thats not accounting for the losses inherent in going from radio to electricity and back.
its feasible for very short range simple devices (e.g. rfid) but totally unfeasible for something like cellphones.
e.g. stuff from the days before dedicated 3D hardware and hugely complex pipelined processors.
but i've never had much sucess in running games of the duke vintage or slightly older under dosbox (if anyone has got it working well could you post the settings you use?).
there is a gap between whats still easy to run on its original platform and what runs well in emulation and i think its widening.
modern pcs still have a midi synth and modern display systems can happilly output the old low res art.
making a source based port that works with the original game data shouldn't really be a huge problem.
on the other hand i think the tactic used by the likes of 3DR and ID is reasonable. namely release the source so people can port it but keep selling the original game with the game data.
i can't imagine good compiler design will become a basic skill. Making a basic compiler is relatively easy afaict. Making a compiler that will hold its own against even gcc in the performance stakes is HARD.
the reason chess is easier to code now now is that 1: people have done it before (which was already the case with compilers when rms wrote his) and 2: you can throw more brute force at the problem.
could you have written that simple chess ai to perform acceptablly on a 70s era computer. or on a computer of your own deisgn. I doubt it.
Intel has a compiler division, AMD does not. Intel compilers generate fast code. Their compilers are free for non-commerical use. Their compilers work with Linux.
and they put in an if (cpu not intel) then (use slow code path even if the feature bits indicate the fast one would be fine)..........
methane from farm manure
i woulodn't say this is localised.
burning methane is a lot better than releasing it (methane is a far far more potent greenhouse gas than C02 and if your going to burn it may as well use the energy.
Their product is plentiful
yeah they make a lot of them. so what exactly ms makes a lot of copies of windows
cheap
competitors are generally cheaper.
ever increasing in quality
ever increasing in processing power yes but also using more power and needing more elaborate cooling to keep working.
not to mention embroiled in healthy competition.
hardly, AMD lacks the capactity to take the big name deals and noone else even comes close to INTEL in the pc processor game.
is when a device keeps interrupting you to turn of its interrupts and check for packets on your terms.
i'm pretty sure linux now does this for network cards.
also i bet flusing the 34 stage pipeline (i'm assuming that roughly maps to 34 instructions worth of time lost) is fairly small compared to the time taken to deal with the interrupt.
i already noticed your comment that skypeout to russia is crap and as skype is a closed system you can't really integrate your own in it.
either run an open pabx (like asterisk) or use another voip provider. you'll have to use different software on the client but thats life.
and if that fails it resorts to raping other peoples bandwidth.