> We don't have the tehcnology now, but we might.
Yeah, and gold could come strewing out my ass.
Light speed (C) is something matter can't exceed, paper-clip size (is that an IEEE standard or a NIST standard or where can I read up on "paper-clip" size... if it's made of aluminum, titnaium, or unobtanium...) is not a thing.
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What a pile of crap.
That's because Microsoft keeps hiding where programs are located and forcing you to "search" for something rather than going directly to it.
"Microsoft wants it this way" is no excuse for taking over my computer, one key at a time. Saying "that's beacause" assumes anyone asked WHY that key is not available, which nobody did. The discussion was about Microsoft taking over Yet Another Key they made manufacturers put in.
Shove a sock in it, Microsoft apologist.
Sorry, in 1991 AOL didn't offer "Internet" services. They offererd dialup to their own walled garden "Keyword: AOLSUX".
It took two more years -- until 1993 -- when AOL's free coasters allowed you to connect to the real Internet. That was after Netscape beat them to it.
Revise history all you want. AOL wanted to be the next Compuserve and had no desire to link people outside their keyword sales garden.
It's now 31 years not 34 years. All they offered was dialup access to their non-artfully created stuff.
AOL was like Geocities only worse... if that's possible. Even their tagline was crappy grammar: "You've got mail." No, "you have mail." But you didn't. Because nobody outside AOL could email you until 1993.
Somebody mod this informative. The summary now makes sense and why Linus was upset.
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September 13, 1999.
Here it is:
If you write the code out as "(a << 16) + b", you know what it does
and which is the high word. Maybe you need to add a cast to make sure
that 'b' doesn't have high bits that pollutes the end result, so maybe
it's not going to be exactly _pretty_, but it's not going to be wrong
and incomprehensible either.
First, THANKS. I know the default is to criticize everyone but you just taught me something valuable, and based on google searches, not just me. Again, thanks.
"(a << 16) + b"
For those wondering what he did, he took the LESS-THAN signs (not GREATER-THAN -- mea culpa) and used < instead.
So the quote (with extra spaces) is
( a & l t ; & l t ; 16 ) + b
I enclosed all those with LESS-THAN quote GREATER-THAN and then closed the quote with LESS-THAN SLASH quote GREATER-THAN like so:
<quote> quoted-stuff-here </quote>
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Linus had a good code example, and Phoronix quoted it. However, Slashdot turned it into ")a".
The original code... and no I can't get it to display the two characters either using tags or backslashes...
"( a TWO-GREATER-THAN-SIGNS-FOR-BINARY-SHIFT-LEFT 16 ) + b"
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"10,000 state-of-the-art GPUs will cost at least $100 million"
You mean if I buy 10K GPUs they still cost $10K each.
Only the goverrnment -- with our tax dollars -- can afford this crap.
AI is a hoax. Let the "AI companies" spend their shareholders' money and leave taxpayers out of it.
If they can't put a man on the moon (it's coming up in the sky tonight; pretend it's 1968), and they can't get Viking to have power beyond our own solar system let alone another one.... this is somewhere areund the stupidest thought some crazy idiot put in writing.
Just take him out and take a big orange bullet to his planzezes.
Why is it (scream about tariffs notwithstanding) that Korea can hobble US company products while insisting their own products (Samsung, SK Hynix chips) are unresricted on the planet?
If you want a free and open market than quit muzzling Google.
Note: I'm not suggesting limiting Samsung or SK Hynix in retaliation. I'm just pointing out South Korea is being stupid. And again that's ignoring orange-poop's talentless know-nothing-about-economics tariffs.
The comparison is inevitable and made by ever media outlet commenting on the launches. SpaceX actually accomplishes things (orbital insertion, LEO sats, military missions, CRS and Crew missions to the ISS among them. Blue Penis has a cartoon of a guy in a big cowboy hat pretending to be another cartoon guy, while taking people on a long-ride to absolutely nothing.
If you'd like to experience near weightlessness you can pay $28M to win a seat at an auction at fly to "the edge of space", or buy $300 worth of SCUBA gear, leave out most of the weight in your BCD, and enjoy the same. The sights are better.
Why people pander to this effort is beyond me. All it does is waste a lot of people's time, money, and fuel to get these rich clowns up to "almost nothing" for "almost no time" where they accomplish "nothing" and are merely passengers on an almost-space vessel -- not astronauts. That's been discussed on
> “The crew who flew to space this week on an automated flight by Blue Origin were brave and glam, but you cannot identify as an astronaut,” continued Duffy's post about the proper terminology regarding what they achieved. “They do not meet the FAA astronaut criteria
Useless, pointless, expensive. Please, compare that to SpaceX, ULA, or the Chinese and other countries' programs.
The all-caps isn't yelling -- it's for emphasis. This IS A BIG DEAL and the people who downplay it ("[F]ederal" something other claiming to be authorities, which is just generic LEO mumbo-jumbo for we-won't-tell-you-who-said-it and our-ass-is-covered) are making the situation worse by ostritching themselves.
> [F]ederal authorities said that the discoveries were not cause for alarm
The discoveries are not cause for alarm. The 10x radiation in the wild, that's a cause for alarm. Nuclear radiation is toxic (not poisonous) meaning it builds up over time. If the wasps have them then it's being spread outside the containment zone. That is REALLY REALLY BAD because the rate of radioactive leak, the material which is radioactive, the half-life, these are all unknowns.
>...and experts noted that the discovery of radioactivity in wildlife near nuclear facilities did not necessarily indicate the likelihood of a major leak
Yes, discovery doesn't "necessarily" indicate anything. However, the presence of radioactive materials does indicate a failure of the containment vessel(s) and whether it's "major" (what's that???) or not, it's a leak of a substanc toxic to humans which --abset a dosimeter or Geiger counter-- we are not able to natively detect.
The "urgency" to declare it "not a major problem" instead of promptly investigating it, finding the breach, correcting that breach, sweeping other areas than 'that one wasp's nest" and doing a cleanup is incompetence and disregard for human safety in action.
The buyer is clearly a little confused if he thinks "pullling into Burning Man" with a 50 year old obsolete RV that says "NASA" on the side is going to make him the new folk hero of Mud&Shit City. Good luck to him in unloading it for 10x what he paid for it, but if "being the star at Burning Man" is on the agenda, time to do less shrooms, d00d.
I'm sorry Tim Cook has a vision problem and he has difficulting seeing the world without iPhones. My eye doctor, Dr. Katelyn Hurliman, is really great. Perhaps he can take Steve Jobs liver-thieving jet and fly on out to see her. She'll having him seeing 20/20 (corrected) in no time. After all, when you can jump on your jet and go raid foreign dispensaries and transplant spots, who's to stop you from drying early... oh... yeah.
In my house we have no Microsoft anything. No Windows. No X-Box. No Zune. Nothing. We also have no Apple products. No Mac, iMac, iPhone, etc. While I'm sharing, we also have no Ring doorbells (free videos to law enforcement) or smart TVs that listen to our every word. In case you're wondering -- I've been using smartphones since Windows NT/2002, later Windows Mobile 2003, and then the Moto Droid I and have been Microsoft free since then. Call it 22 years. I've never used an Apple product because I don't like their walled garden. Same for MS. I gave away my PS4 because Sony F***ED GeoHotz.
You might say "Well isn't it silly of you to reject modern technology?" Maybe so but I'm not willing to pay the Tim Cook price. Obvsiously someone who can't see a world... should hand the reigns off to someone who can.
If you're going to downvote me because I don't use Apple or MS products, please post a followup explaining why I should give up my rights AND spend three times what the hardware costs so Steve Jobs can steal some poor guy (without a jet)'s liver, and Tim Cook can go blind because there might be a world he doesn't comprehend. The multiverse includes such a world, and people HELP EACH OTHER, not build $5Billion campuses shaped like a spaceship because ego.
But perhaps the first step is increasing awareness. If we want satellite navigation to work, our supermarkets to be stocked and our online money transfers arriving safely, we need to make sure we have a clear view of those black holes in distant galaxies — and that means clearing up the radio highway.
"Perhaps" = no, none of that.
We don't need to "hear black holes" so WiFi and ATMs and GPS work?
What a bunch of nonsense. We should reserve spectrum internationally, but this fearmongering "supermarket shelves not being stocked" is pure fearmongering crap. What's next - your car won't start because blackhole interference? Your electric toothebrush won't work because WiFI? Total crap with no basis in physics, radio frequencies, science, or anything at all other than pure nonsense.
Maybe it's just the "slashdot-weekend" summary. After reading the crap above I'm not going to the original article. If you do, maybe you'll get more out of this schlock than I did.
God helps them that themselves. -- Benjamin Franklin, "Poor Richard's Almanac"
