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I'll wait until he's distracted eating those finger sandwiches, care to give me a hand?
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Good idea. We should be able to nail him then.
/ravi
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I think his house is located on a major artery, next to that big spine tree.
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In the same vein (I know I'm going out on a limb here), I have to hand it to ya - the tree would definitely give us a leg up!
/ravi
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It's going to take some intestinal fortitude, but as long as you have the stomach for it, I think we do this. In the meantime I'll keep my ear to the ground.
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Are two heads better than one?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Heads? I'd go for the thigh muscle, and a couple of other nice muscles.
I've heard it tastes like veal. Mild with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste. (source: William Seabrook)
Sounds good to me.
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Yikes! What's eating you, Harold?
/ravi
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Nigerians, I guess. Apparently they're into that sort of thing.
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Roasted human heads?
That's outrageous.
Everyone knows heads should be slow cooked in a crock pot.
Steve Wellens
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from Mars[^]
Mars rover Curiosity snaps 'pale blue dot' image of Earth, Moon
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So that's where I left my keys!
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It's got a big mast
Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
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Let's see how long it runs there on its own
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Surely the whole point of a selfie is to hold and point the camera at yourself, not to build a robot, send it across vast reaches of space, land it on another planet and then point it back.
Besides, I think Voyager managed some more impressive snaps of home a while back.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The desktop is a hard to understand technology and everyone that isn't a tech hates it.
Its the techie that is crying WHY WINDOWS WHY.
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Colborne_Greg wrote: The Windows 8.1 desktop is a hard to understand technology and everyone that isn't a tech hates it. FTFY
/ravi
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The desktop has the 16 bit offset - metro mode does not.
Back when the PC was invented everything was 8 bits hence why a byte is 8 bits, anyways in order to make a 16 bit register they took 3 - 8 bit registers and used the 2nd byte to point to the first and second half of the 16 bit register. It wasn't until Microsoft in 2003 did a paradigm shift to remove this problem. Once they did this all programs programmed with this offset simply can't work in the new paradigm.
If you like slow processing for simple tasks - go right ahead love the desktop.
You can not fix the desktop, just like you can't fix stupid for blindly being in love with the desktop.
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Colborne_Greg wrote: You can not fix ... stupid for blindly being in love with the desktop.
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Colborne_Greg wrote: Back when the PC was invented everything was 8 bits hence why a byte is 8 bits, anyways in order to make a 16 bit register they took 3 - 8 bit registers and used the 2nd byte to point to the first and second half of the 16 bit register. It wasn't until Microsoft in 2003 did a paradigm shift to remove this problem. Once they did this all programs programmed with this offset simply can't work in the new paradigm. You are very confused.
“But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.
“You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll
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No, it's absolutely incorrect.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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.net framework paradigm shift look it up
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I've been programming now for 30 years. I know what the .NET framework is and use it daily at work.
The 8086 and successors use offsets to address memory, but were always 16-bit architectures, although the original 8088 had an 8-bit bus. The Z80 used register pairs to form 16-bit addresses. On the 8086, segment registers were used to address a segment, and other registers could register a 16-bit address relative to that offset. There was no third register involved. Look it up.
The 80386 introduced 32-bit registers, so addresses from there on are 32-bit. However it uses a paged architecture so that each process effectively has its own 32-bit address space. This magic happens between the Operating System (Windows, Linux whatever) and the Memory Management Unit (MMU). From an application programmer's perspective a process just sees a 32-bit space.
.NET Framework was not a paradigm shift. It simply created a virtual machine running on top of Windows, it relies as much as any program on the CPU's addressing. VMs have been in use for decades: Pascal often compiled to P-Code - a byte code format. Smalltalk used a full object-oriented VM. Java used a bytecode very similar to .NET. Microsoft introduced .NET to compete with Java, but it was no paradigm shift - just (to my point of view) a better VM than Java's. Smalltalk was a paradigm change - it was the first pure object-oriented language and revolutionised approaches to software. .NET could still learn a lot from Smalltalk and similar languages. Indeed I believe some LISP implementations used a VM so it probably has a longer history still.
The use of .NET has absolutely nothing to do with the addressing scheme used by the underlying hardware - indeed .NET actually compiles (using a Just-In-Time or JIT Compiler) to native code that is cached and used for subsequent calls. It does this at a cost of efficiency compared to native code, but as most app's spend more time waiting for networks/disks/input this is not of particular concern, unless you are writing leading-edge programs such as leading-edge games, intensive graphical applications or indeed VMs or languages.
Wikipedia has plenty of information on these topics.
X86 Memory Segmentation[^]
Virtual Machines[^]
JIT Compilation[^] - .NET is a Process Virtual Machine in the terms used here.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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