Comment Re:Pretty Good (Score 1) 229
Dude, he's a Brit. He understates things. It's supposed to be read,
should have at least a minimal impact
Dude, he's a Brit. He understates things. It's supposed to be read,
should have at least a minimal impact
Except that it's impossible to know what page will actually be loaded without actually fetching it from the server (i.e., if it tries to fetch another link on 404), and it's not possible to do that without potentially changing state on the server (not every website respects GET vs POST semantics).
Not sure if troll.
Pipelining doesn't affect latency, only throughput. And the throughput increase is reflected in the increase I'n frequency. 3GHz still means that you can only perform 3000 instructions in a us.
And that assumes none of the instructions trip an interrupt, which requires waiting while the pipeline flushes, and then continuing an interrupt handler; and none of the instructions cause a TLB miss, and none of the instructions cause a cache miss, and all instructions are effectively independent of each other (Hint: none of these situations actually do). Multiple issue and multiple functional units help with getting more out of the pipeline in the case where you have enough instruction independence and you suffer cache and TLB misses. Interrupts, however, still require you to flush the pipeline to guarantee proper operation. Now imagine what happens if every 20th instruction is an API call which triggers a system call by means of an interrupt because it requires privileged access to the GPU.
I didn't RTFA yet, but that seems to me like the gist of the problem.
And releasing the middle mouse button over a link after scrolling. That annoyed the bejeezus out of me and was the reason I switched back to Firefox. It basically made ad- and link-ridden sites unscrollable with the middle mouse button.
Silly people. I can prove it for arbitrary N! Just so long as P is zero, that is.
Excellent description, and it helped me understand it, but I have a minor correction.
The plane that cuts the three pieces (or the nth-dimension generalization that cuts n pieces) isn't necessarily unique, specifically in the case where the three points are colinear (or the nth-dimension generalization thereof).
Nucular?
Wind power as we know it is not yet renewable. We still have to get stuff out of the ground (metal ores for replacement parts, and chemicals for batteries) to maintain the system. Once we get to the point that it really is renewable (we recycle the scrap from broken-down parts to create new ones, using only the energy generated by the system), with no waste and no resource requirements after being set up, except for the sun in the sky, then the energy will cost only as much as the land costs. Same goes for solar, and other energy systems that have the potential to become renewable.
IANAL, but I think that in most jurisdictions, behaving recklessly in such a way that a death can reasonably foreseeably result from your actions (such as waving a loaded gun around with the safety off) is enough to get convicted of at least some degree of murder if said death actually occurs, even without intent.
I think it's called "reckless indifference".
You're confusing choice on the part of comely producers with choice on the part of consumers. It would be amazing if all content were available I'n every conceivable format, but it's not. Providing a patent-encumbered codec that works on only one platform will lead to the situation we had with the ActiveX debacle.
You sunk my battleship!
Math, physical sciences, and engineering are slightly different in this regard. It's not about chugging numbers, it's about getting practice with the methods you were supposed to learn to solve problems. The issue isn't so much "solve this integral", it's "show that you know how to do integration by parts". Even though there are concrete numbers to make it more "real" for some students, or at least more tractable (so you don't have long strings of abstract variables), practicing is there for the practicing of concepts.
I'll grant you, though, that in subjects like history, assignments, test, and quizzes ought to be more conceptual. Students don't care (nor should they) whether a specific event happened in 1565 or 1566. Memorizing names, dates, sequences (of monarchs, e.g.), etc. has absolutely 0 meaning. Learning how two events, people, etc. interacted and why does.
How secret can this secret key be, if every camera has to store it I'n order to take "verified" photographs? They tried it with DVD, they tried it with blu-ray, they tried it with the PS3. It just doesn't work like that.
Except that if such information is stored with the photo, it can by definition be altered when the photo is altered.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"