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by Zaak 14y ago
I would like to see Google create a marketplace for support. They allow people to buy some access to their internal systems, who then sell support service. There would need to be careful vetting and monitoring of the people who buy the acce
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by Zaak 14y ago
This is a question I have about SpaceX. How much of their low development and launch costs depend on having large numbers of people willing to sacrifice compensation to work for such a transformative company? I don't know anything solid abo
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by Zaak 14y ago
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from t
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by Zaak 14y ago
Ruby is more of a Smalltalk than a Lisp.
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by Zaak 14y ago
Notch has said that when he "upgrades" the DCPU spec, the old CPUs will continue to work as they have, but new CPUs will become available. I don't have the reference handy though.
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by Zaak 15y ago
Maybe that's why his code is buggy? I love the games Notch makes, but he's not perfect.
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by Zaak 15y ago
You could run your spaceship computer like that, but you could also install a multitasking system that allows you to download files from your favorite space BBS while playing a game of solitaire and plotting the course to your next mining a
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by Zaak 15y ago
Actually, uClinux doesn't require an MMU, and it's been merged into the main line of kernel development.
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by Zaak 15y ago
True, but there's no information on the display modes or the framebuffer format.
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by Zaak 15y ago
I very much hope there will be some kind of memory protection mechanism. Virtual memory would enable wonderful things.
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by Zaak 15y ago
Notch's original intention was to implement a real CPU like the 6502, but he decided to create a CPU optimized for software emulation instead. The PDP-8 was designed to be inexpensive to implement with the hardware available at the time. It
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by Zaak 15y ago
You're free to choose or write software for it that encodes three 5-bit characters in a 16-bit byte if you like.
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by Zaak 15y ago
I expect that inter-computer communication will be more like it was in the 80s, with swapping floppies and dial-up BBSs being the norm. It's still possible to get viruses that way, but there won't be worms spreading autonomously through the
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by Zaak 15y ago
I expect that there will be some kind of default OS released with the game, and that many alternatives will pop up very quickly. It will not run Linux, because Linux requires a 32-bit CPU with megabytes of RAM. Someone might write a Linux-l
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by Zaak 15y ago
It is possible that someone will implement versions of those languages, but this CPU is so memory and speed constrained that you'd be hard pressed to get much useful done. And if the speed of your programs executing turns out to be relevant
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by Zaak 15y ago
Notch was at least involved in the original concept for Scrolls. I don't know if he's been involved in the actual development.
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by Zaak 15y ago
On an 80286, OS/2 could only run a single instance of DOS due to that processor's lack of a true virtual 8086 mode.
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by Zaak 15y ago
A government doesn't have to take down your satellite if they can persuade you to do it for them. Jail time can be a powerful persuasion. And if your orbiting data haven is objectionable enough there's always http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A
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by Zaak 15y ago
Actually, the complexity of a modern CPU is mainly in making things run fast. Building an in-order, no-cache, single-issue ARM capable of running uClinux doesn't seem all that difficult. The cycle time would be horrible though. You might no
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by Zaak 15y ago
My mind boggles at the sheer size of 8M RAM in minecraft...
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by Zaak 15y ago
For a long time it was common knowledge that computers last longer if you keep them cold. It's only been in the past few years that evidence has been shown that moderately high temperatures do not appreciably shorten equipment life.
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by Zaak 15y ago
A mission to Mars is guaranteed to be the most complex space mission ever attempted. Every additional rocket you need for the mission adds complexity. Complexity is the enemy of reliability. What happens to your Mars departure window when t
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by Zaak 15y ago
I expect there are many people who would find that very unappealing. I also expect that there are people who would put down the money right now if you would let them.
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by Zaak 15y ago
http://www.minimagnetosphere.rl.ac.uk/
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by Zaak 15y ago
It doesn't. However, the more launches required to assemble your spacecraft, the more chances there are for something to go wrong.
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by Zaak 15y ago
I'm glad that Richard Stallman and his uncompromising position exist. I'm also glad that his is not the only voice in the open source/free software community.
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by Zaak 15y ago
The most popular and well-studied public-key encryption systems use factoring, but there are lots of other proposed schemes. The ability to quickly factor products of large primes would cause a temporary upset while alternative systems are
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by Zaak 15y ago
It's unlikely that the absence of projects like this would cause them to refrain from pushing repressive legislation.
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by Zaak 15y ago
You have to start with at least one well-known host.
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by Zaak 15y ago
That bugs me too. I have started a small project to make a more realistic water simulation, and found it to be quite a bit more involved than I had expected. Just adding pressure would fix the problem you mentioned, and would probably be pr

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