FTFA : [...] Robert Rowthorn, emeritus professor of economics at Cambridge University [...]
Do you really need more ? I wonder why these two words were removed from the summary (*) ? The guy obviously knows nothing about genetics (other than being the modern buzzword equivalent for "destiny/fate").
We here at Capcom are saddened that [...] we can't go after Minecraft, Super Meat Boy etc without getting noticed.
Well, I think that they don't care that much about simply getting noticed. They're saddened that they could lose sales because of bad publicity as a consequence.
Also, people massively tend to underestimate the amount of energy to warm up an entire planetary atmosphere by this amount. 0.4C looks small, until you calculate the amount of energy necessary to heat up an *entire planet*.
While I agree with the remaining of your post, I'm not convinced by this. The night removes many degrees from the atmosphere. Do not underestimate the massive amount of energy provided by the sun;-) . I would rather point to oceans storing that energy... And the Wikipedia seems to agree:
The thermal inertia of the oceans and slow responses of other indirect effects mean that climate can take centuries or longer to adjust to changes in forcing.
Being French, I know that France and Ireland have the highest rates of population growth in Europe when discounting immigration.
ground under the heels of Communist oppression.
BTW, Communism didn't prevent USSR population to grow as well as the current 'capitalist' Russia.
Not to mention that wealthy countries have the excess wealth to worry about environmental concerns. Note the cleaner air and water in western societies.
Do you mean the excess wealth to export actual production and pollution to less wealthy countries ?
The US actually has more trees than when the first European set foot here.
Do you have some reputable source for that ? All I can find is this, which doesn't support your statement (somehow, I'm not surprised) (the first European didn't set foot in Americas a century ago).
Now, please mod parent wrong. Or flamebait (you know, that contempt towards societies not acting "just like us" - and his sig doesn't help).
Happens that I overlook the noncommercial flight angle. With fly by wire aircrafts, no electricity means much bigger issues than no compass... However it is sound to not have a mixed system with geographical north reference for airports and magnetic north reference for smaller aerodromes.
kaleth maks the point that INS are large and heavy. Is that true anymore ? Smartphones have gyroscopes and accelerometers now. Don't they have enough precision for flight use ?
Why are we still using compass ? With GPS and INS, the runways could be numbered in relation to ITRF. Of course, continent drift means some renumbering will be needed, but that would be much less frequently.
The problem being that "Funny" points don't give you any karma... Early copy-pasting parts of TFA seems more efficient. Or "correlation != causation" negative posts.
He also generalised it to allow buffer sizes that were complex numbers. The first part was very useful to me, the second absolutely useless - but to him it was all just interesting.
Not that useless, if you think about it. The choice of complex numbers is strange though, you better see it as a 2-dimensional array. You could then generalize to n-dimensional buffers.
I went by "The vector technique was first fully exploited in the famous Cray-1" from the wikipedia:)
Apparently the difference between the CDC Star-100 and the Cray-1 is the adressing mode : Star-100 fetched and stored data in main memory while the Cray-1 had 64 64-bit registers.
On the account of ILLIAC IV, Wikipedia says it "was finally ready for operation in 1976". It booted in 1972, but wasn't reliable enough to run applications at that time. It was usable in 1975, operating only Monday to Friday and having up to 40 hours of planned maintenance a week.
The story link works, but the article.pl link keeps redirecting to the broken news.slashdot.org server. However, when logged in, I only get article.pl links (maybe 'cause I'm using the classic index).
Seems like someone picked the "Leave behind a blatant anachronism" option two polls ago. Do you notice how that story only appears after that poll ? Obviously, that poll gave ideas to some slashdotter with a time machine. And the cell phone couldn't be seen before because it simply wasn't there in the original timeline.
can anyone see a way that IPv6 address space could run out in (say) 50-100 years?
Hardly conceivable. The worse I can get is by imagining exponentially reproducing nanobots (and enough resources to sustain that growth).
Some estimations are giving 10^11 neurons in a human brain. Roughly 2^37. Let's say there will be 17*10^9 human in 100 years: 2^34. That's 2^71 human neurons...
If you imagine a constant allocation rate to fill 2^128 addresses in 100 years, that would be 10^23 addresses allocated each microsecond (2^128/(100*365.25*24*3600*10^6)).
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You're confusing Alexey Pajitnov and The Tetris Company, co-founded and managed by Henk Rogers
If you're not mistaken thinking that Henk Rogers is the author (as you didn't bother to give names), you're probably trolling. What are your sources ?
Along many Tetris variants, Alexey Pajitnov conceived El-Fish, Clockwerx, and other puzzle games.
I could throw a blanket over it and - 'poof' - it's invisible...
But there are two thousand years of prior art on that technology...
Here, invisible women.
FTFA : [...] Robert Rowthorn, emeritus professor of economics at Cambridge University [...]
Do you really need more ? I wonder why these two words were removed from the summary (*) ? The guy obviously knows nothing about genetics (other than being the modern buzzword equivalent for "destiny/fate").
I supposed he started with something within his field (malthusianism, demographic transition, demographic economics), then his head was hit by something hard and he went crazy.
(*) This is a rhetorical question. No need to answer.
As far as I can tell, there's not actually a link to it anywhere on the site.
I found it : click the gear icon next to your username on the home page, then select the Discussions "tab".
There you can choose between D1 and D2.
an ad vehicle
Not really, given than the chart doesn't include ads in itself.
The new Zodiac Chart is pretty interesting.
Yeah, pretty interesting choice of Adobe Flash for a static piece of text and illustration.
Is that supposed to act as a poor man's DRM ?
We here at Capcom are saddened that [...] we can't go after Minecraft, Super Meat Boy etc without getting noticed.
Well, I think that they don't care that much about simply getting noticed.
They're saddened that they could lose sales because of bad publicity as a consequence.
Also, people massively tend to underestimate the amount of energy to warm up an entire planetary atmosphere by this amount. 0.4C looks small, until you calculate the amount of energy necessary to heat up an *entire planet*.
While I agree with the remaining of your post, I'm not convinced by this. The night removes many degrees from the atmosphere. Do not underestimate the massive amount of energy provided by the sun ;-) . I would rather point to oceans storing that energy... And the Wikipedia seems to agree :
The thermal inertia of the oceans and slow responses of other indirect effects mean that climate can take centuries or longer to adjust to changes in forcing.
an attempt to force a new language on the entire world.
You mean, like,
Only two known methods
To you.
Seriously, look up the stats
Yeah, please do that.
Being French, I know that France and Ireland have the highest rates of population growth in Europe when discounting immigration.
ground under the heels of Communist oppression.
BTW, Communism didn't prevent USSR population to grow as well as the current 'capitalist' Russia.
Not to mention that wealthy countries have the excess wealth to worry about environmental concerns. Note the cleaner air and water in western societies.
Do you mean the excess wealth to export actual production and pollution to less wealthy countries ?
The US actually has more trees than when the first European set foot here.
Do you have some reputable source for that ? All I can find is this, which doesn't support your statement (somehow, I'm not surprised) (the first European didn't set foot in Americas a century ago).
Now, please mod parent wrong. Or flamebait (you know, that contempt towards societies not acting "just like us" - and his sig doesn't help).
Thanks for the answer.
Happens that I overlook the noncommercial flight angle.
With fly by wire aircrafts, no electricity means much bigger issues than no compass...
However it is sound to not have a mixed system with geographical north reference for airports and magnetic north reference for smaller aerodromes.
kaleth maks the point that INS are large and heavy. Is that true anymore ? Smartphones have gyroscopes and accelerometers now. Don't they have enough precision for flight use ?
Why are we still using compass ?
With GPS and INS, the runways could be numbered in relation to ITRF. Of course, continent drift means some renumbering will be needed, but that would be much less frequently.
The problem being that "Funny" points don't give you any karma... Early copy-pasting parts of TFA seems more efficient. Or "correlation != causation" negative posts.
He also generalised it to allow buffer sizes that were complex numbers. The first part was very useful to me, the second absolutely useless - but to him it was all just interesting.
Not that useless, if you think about it. The choice of complex numbers is strange though, you better see it as a 2-dimensional array. You could then generalize to n-dimensional buffers.
0x165 Have you memorized the HOSTS.TXT table? ... Are you up to date?
0x166
(From the Hacker purity test
Does anybody really think that an old ladies sewing needles are a threat to the airplane?
Didn't you hear about the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale ? The needle is poisoned. Excepted that instead of a 115-year-old lady looking like a 15-year-old girl, you would have a 15-year-old-girl looking like a 115-year-old lady.
I went by "The vector technique was first fully exploited in the famous Cray-1" from the wikipedia :)
Apparently the difference between the CDC Star-100 and the Cray-1 is the adressing mode : Star-100 fetched and stored data in main memory while the Cray-1 had 64 64-bit registers.
On the account of ILLIAC IV, Wikipedia says it "was finally ready for operation in 1976". It booted in 1972, but wasn't reliable enough to run applications at that time. It was usable in 1975, operating only Monday to Friday and having up to 40 hours of planned maintenance a week.
Even more interesting is the fact that GPGPU accelerated supercomputers are clearly outclassing classical supercomputers such as Cray
Funny that you mention Cray, as the Cray-1 was the first supercomputer with vector processors, what GPGPUs actually are.
It has been fixed at 14:55 GMT, after at least 6 hours of downtime. (cf. my other post)
Yes and no.
The story link works, but the article.pl link keeps redirecting to the broken news.slashdot.org server.
However, when logged in, I only get article.pl links (maybe 'cause I'm using the classic index).
Just in the case where a Slashdot staff would read this and didn't notice, http://news.slashdot.org/ redirects to http://news.slashdot.org/www.sourceforge.net ...
But as I write that, I notice that news.slashdot.org has now been fixed.
He means news.slashdot.org links.
I also get "404 Not Found" for these links, like News: Firefox 4 Regains Speed Mojo With No. 2 Placing.
all the philosophers have picked up a fork and now are unable to eat because they don't have enough forks to make a smartphone.
Well, that's a problem in closed-source land. In FOSS land, forks appear spontaneously !
Seems like someone picked the "Leave behind a blatant anachronism" option two polls ago.
Do you notice how that story only appears after that poll ?
Obviously, that poll gave ideas to some slashdotter with a time machine. And the cell phone couldn't be seen before because it simply wasn't there in the original timeline.
can anyone see a way that IPv6 address space could run out in (say) 50-100 years?
Hardly conceivable. The worse I can get is by imagining exponentially reproducing nanobots (and enough resources to sustain that growth).
Some estimations are giving 10^11 neurons in a human brain. Roughly 2^37. Let's say there will be 17*10^9 human in 100 years: 2^34. That's 2^71 human neurons...
If you imagine a constant allocation rate to fill 2^128 addresses in 100 years, that would be 10^23 addresses allocated each microsecond (2^128/(100*365.25*24*3600*10^6)).
IMHO, there is definitely some margin.
But b00000000 = b11111111 in one's complement system...
So 0 == 1 as long as you're using 1 bit wide one's complement integers...