The IDE controller isn't the master, the words master and slave are used to distinguish from up to two IDE devices (harddisk, CD/DVD drives, etc.) on one IDE controller. The IDE controller itself doesn't have a name.
Well, the Pentium 4 solves complex differential equations like a Pentium 3 at half the clock frequency, so if you were exercising the FPU, it would run as fast as a 1.13GHz Pentium 3, which would explain why you didn't notice any difference...
So you're saying that all theories need irrefutable proof to become definitive? You're basically repeating the old "just a theory" point here. Scientific theories are by definition the best explanations of phenomena that science has to offer.
Theory of Gravity, Atomic Theory, Theory of Evolution, Theory of Relativity, Quantum Theory. Those are all "just" theories. There is no definitive proof that they're right, and there never will be.
For example, God could appear tomorrow, and tell us that He made the planets circle the sun, and us on the ground, and the planes in the air, all by himself, and that gravity does not exist. Or that He fiddled with the particle colliders to make them give measurements that would suggest all kinds of subatomic particles and radiation that doesn't actually exist!
It's not likely, but it's also impossible to prove that it's impossible. Hence, all these scientific theories are true*.
*) True as far as we know, but we cannot ever be 100.0% sure of the veracity.
Plano-terrestialism is based on the idea that the earth appears to be flat. That is, roundness is an order of magnitude more complex than flatness. Wouldn't you fall off if you were on the bottom side of the "globe"?
And yes, there is a kind of guiding force to evolution, even though it doesn't actually exist as such: individuals with genes that give them better chances for survival tends to survive longer and produce more offspring, hence these genes will become more common in the next generations.
You claim that life began from "nothing", according to the evolutionary theories.
You don't seem to appreciate exactly how big the primordial oceans were, and how long umphteen million years is, and how many "random" interactions there must have been among the zillions of complex organic molecules that can be formed by natural events such as lightning, sunlight, volcanic eruptions, et cetera.
Even if only 0.0000000001% of these molecules had some kind of property that had the effect of it reproducing itself, over time, those molecules would become more common, and thus engage in more interaction with other molecules.
So yes, I find it plausible that over the course of millions of years, this huge "soup" of all kinds of molecules would have produced lifeforms. That people haven't been able to reproduce much of this in test tubes over a couple of weeks doesn't surprise me much.
About your last paragraph. Obviously you think those blue-scaled lizard midgets were just made up. I agree with that. But there is a point to this. Isn't it possible that God was just made up too, by someone, but the people who heard the story believed it and it kind of got out of hand from there, with people killing eachother over differing opinions on the details of the stories?
No, because the patent holder has the right to decide that there will be no implementation of the algorithm for e.g. Linux, or the CPU architecture which will be common in ten years.
And then, if you want to use the algorithm on your choice of hardware/software platform, you're either up shit creek without a paddle, or will have to illegally use another implementation, whether or not you paid the patent holder.
Some people find that unfair, and therefore will choose a Free (as in speech) algorithm.
That still doesn't mean they actually pay for receiving SMS messages. They just need a positive balance on their pre-paid SIMs, which isn't so bad. It seems to be to prevent abuse, i.e. receiving messages on a phone that doesn't generate any revenue at all. Why would a cell phone provider service clients who don't pay? Makes sense...
Levying a tax on blank media is not the fairest way to collect such a fee (if such a fee has to exist at all). I have never used a blank DVD or CD for storage of copyrighted material - I use such media for backups or for the transfer of my work between machines.
Maybe you're right, maybe the tax should be on prerecorded media instead?
Actually, science can't say much about what happened before the Big Bang, so I can't criticize you for believing God set the universe into motion by causing the Big Bang -- that belief is as valid as any other.
Personally, I believe the Big Bang was caused by a spoon, but you seem to disagree with me;-)
2) Family Guy
(Fox/not ranked last season)
Fox's Family Guy was unbelievably foul. This low-rated, raunchy, animated series centered on a couple, their two teenagers, and their precociously evil infant son. In its first full year, the show's creators managed to include nearly every conceivable obscenity, and references to every imaginable sexual perversion from incest to necrophilia. Series staples included nudity and references to pornography and masturbation. One episode this spring featured Peter Griffin giving his adolescent son his entire stockpile of pornographic magazines. The fact that Family Guy aired during the family hour makes it that much worse. Institutions such as the church and family were held up to ridicule on a near-weekly basis. Fortunately, The Family Guy was not picked up for next season.
I like how they describe so exhaustively what they think is wrong with the show.
Yes, but those are permeable to the specific frequencies of the Chinese Orbital Mind Control Lasers. The Made in Taiwan tinfoil hats, though, are especially good at blocking those frequencies.
Remember to hang the LCD monitor really high, near the ceiling, so the kid has no chance of reaching it, otherwise he WILL try to find out what happens to it if he pushes on the screen really hard (hint: you don't want to have this experiment performed on your expensive LCD screen, but rather on a cheap credit card-sized calculator).
Now when you make a change in one and save it, the first save operation takes forever, as it must copy the file as well.
Oddly enough, practically all file editors write the entire file to disk when you save it, and not just the changed bits, so there wouldn't be any difference in performance in this case.
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Ah, okay.
Yes, it appears that often, the worst viable technology gets to dominate the market...
The IDE controller isn't the master, the words master and slave are used to distinguish from up to two IDE devices (harddisk, CD/DVD drives, etc.) on one IDE controller. The IDE controller itself doesn't have a name.
IDE controller
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master device
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slave device
I'm not entirely sure, but IIRC, the master device determines the maximum throughput speed and/or determines which device is active when.
Well, the Pentium 4 solves complex differential equations like a Pentium 3 at half the clock frequency, so if you were exercising the FPU, it would run as fast as a 1.13GHz Pentium 3, which would explain why you didn't notice any difference...
The e-commerce + corporate America web server market is not necessarily representative of the total web server market.
"Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft software", remember?
How about the TFT screens?
So you're saying that all theories need irrefutable proof to become definitive? You're basically repeating the old "just a theory" point here. Scientific theories are by definition the best explanations of phenomena that science has to offer.
Theory of Gravity, Atomic Theory, Theory of Evolution, Theory of Relativity, Quantum Theory. Those are all "just" theories. There is no definitive proof that they're right, and there never will be.
For example, God could appear tomorrow, and tell us that He made the planets circle the sun, and us on the ground, and the planes in the air, all by himself, and that gravity does not exist. Or that He fiddled with the particle colliders to make them give measurements that would suggest all kinds of subatomic particles and radiation that doesn't actually exist!
It's not likely, but it's also impossible to prove that it's impossible. Hence, all these scientific theories are true*.
*) True as far as we know, but we cannot ever be 100.0% sure of the veracity.
Plano-terrestialism is based on the idea that the earth appears to be flat. That is, roundness is an order of magnitude more complex than flatness. Wouldn't you fall off if you were on the bottom side of the "globe"?
And yes, there is a kind of guiding force to evolution, even though it doesn't actually exist as such: individuals with genes that give them better chances for survival tends to survive longer and produce more offspring, hence these genes will become more common in the next generations.
You claim that life began from "nothing", according to the evolutionary theories.
You don't seem to appreciate exactly how big the primordial oceans were, and how long umphteen million years is, and how many "random" interactions there must have been among the zillions of complex organic molecules that can be formed by natural events such as lightning, sunlight, volcanic eruptions, et cetera.
Even if only 0.0000000001% of these molecules had some kind of property that had the effect of it reproducing itself, over time, those molecules would become more common, and thus engage in more interaction with other molecules.
So yes, I find it plausible that over the course of millions of years, this huge "soup" of all kinds of molecules would have produced lifeforms. That people haven't been able to reproduce much of this in test tubes over a couple of weeks doesn't surprise me much.
About your last paragraph. Obviously you think those blue-scaled lizard midgets were just made up. I agree with that. But there is a point to this. Isn't it possible that God was just made up too, by someone, but the people who heard the story believed it and it kind of got out of hand from there, with people killing eachother over differing opinions on the details of the stories?
Why do you view evolution as a "counter-religious" theory?
No, because the patent holder has the right to decide that there will be no implementation of the algorithm for e.g. Linux, or the CPU architecture which will be common in ten years.
And then, if you want to use the algorithm on your choice of hardware/software platform, you're either up shit creek without a paddle, or will have to illegally use another implementation, whether or not you paid the patent holder.
Some people find that unfair, and therefore will choose a Free (as in speech) algorithm.
I'm still using PC-133 SDRAM I bought in 2001.
Funny thing is, I still have the bill for that, and last week, I was in a computer store, which had DDR-RAM with the exact same capacity, and PRICE!
I challenge anyone claiming that there HASN'T been any price fixing to explain that!
I want a gig for EUR 20 (USD 26.31), dammit!
Because it's on the internet, on a computer. eBay has a patent on that, you know!
That still doesn't mean they actually pay for receiving SMS messages. They just need a positive balance on their pre-paid SIMs, which isn't so bad. It seems to be to prevent abuse, i.e. receiving messages on a phone that doesn't generate any revenue at all. Why would a cell phone provider service clients who don't pay? Makes sense...
I thought the cache memory was on the same die as the chip, which explains why it's also called on-die cache?
Maybe you're right, maybe the tax should be on prerecorded media instead?
UNIX is very popular... in Japan!
Yeah, and a Windows machine would be Bluescreenus Maximus :-P
I'm pretty sure I'd have noticed if he said "Oh boy", so I think it's wishful thinking on your part...
I'm still waiting for Captain Jonathan Archer to mutter "Oh boy" when he finds himself in a precarious situation...
Squid stops working when the partition holding its logfiles is full.
Actually, science can't say much about what happened before the Big Bang, so I can't criticize you for believing God set the universe into motion by causing the Big Bang -- that belief is as valid as any other.
;-)
Personally, I believe the Big Bang was caused by a spoon, but you seem to disagree with me
Yes, but those are permeable to the specific frequencies of the Chinese Orbital Mind Control Lasers. The Made in Taiwan tinfoil hats, though, are especially good at blocking those frequencies.
Remember to hang the LCD monitor really high, near the ceiling, so the kid has no chance of reaching it, otherwise he WILL try to find out what happens to it if he pushes on the screen really hard (hint: you don't want to have this experiment performed on your expensive LCD screen, but rather on a cheap credit card-sized calculator).
Oddly enough, practically all file editors write the entire file to disk when you save it, and not just the changed bits, so there wouldn't be any difference in performance in this case.