LaurieAG

Kempy, the x86 Interrupt Requests, IRQ's, are here for the processors after the 8088 i.e. 8086, 80286, 80486 etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRQ

Here's what happens to the paradox when you forget about relative to the speed of light in a vacuum timers and use solid state timers.

The attached image shows two digital counters that would show the same count regardless of how fast the glass plate was spinning. Each count is created by connecting an electric current between A and B that increments the equidistant counters, the wires run under the glass plate and each wire is permanently connected to the central spindle by frictionless brushes, or whatever, on different sides of the plate.

Can anybody prove how the timers can be different despite their relative speed difference.

To recap, we have been examining the relationship between knowledge (and the power that flows from it) and wisdom, the ability to use knowledge/power in a constructive manner.

 

We can likely agree that human being make their livings on this Earth primarily by knowing things about our environment. We can likely agree that we've had to struggle mightly for new information for a very long time. Thus, it seems entirely reasonable that we should today have inherited a "more is better" relationship with knowledge.

Plato, Phaedrus 274c5-275b2 (c. 360BC),

I heard that … one of the ancient gods in Egypt has the sacred bird called the Ibis dedicated to him. The name of this deity is Thoth and I am told that it was he who first invented numbers and calculation, geometry and astronomy and, furthermore, draughts and dice and, finally, letters of the alphabet. Now at that time Thamos was king of all Egypt and he lived in the big city of Upper Egypt which the Greeks call Egyptian Thebes. They call Thamos 'Ammon'. Thoth went to him, showed him his inventions and said that they should be made public to other Egyptians. Thamos asked what good each one did, and when Thoth explained, he criticises the ideas depending on the merit he thought each one had… It would take too long to run through all the pros and cons Thamos raised about each invention. But when Thoth reached the letters of the alphabet, he said 'King, this subject will make the Egyptians wiser and improve their memory. The drug of memory and of wisdom has been discovered.' Thamos replied, 'Most skillful Thoth, the man who has the ability to invent the objects of science and the man who can judge the extent of damage or good that those objects will bring are not one and the same. Now, through fondness for your invention of letters, you, their inventor have ascribed to them the opposite capacity from the capacity they in fact have. This, you see, will cause forgetfulness in the minds of people who learn them because they will not practice using their memory - if they rely on writing, they will be reminded from the outside, by external characters, not from the inside, by themselves. What you have discovered is a drug not of memory but of reminding. You are providing those who learn your letters what seem to be wisdom, but is not real wisdom. If they are very attentive to you, then without teaching they will seem to be very knowledgeable, but they will as a rule be ignorant and hard to get on with because they are apparently wise instead of really wise.

I saw it in class, plus I don't have a USB for my flip-phone to transfer pictures, but I will draw it and label it, then upload it here.

Hi Vay,

I have seen similar effects so it would be interesting to see the pictures.

The empirical data ( if you want to call it that) shows that Christ said that the old laws still stand and would do so for ever.

Robert Graves had some good comments about the old laws in his Greek Myths.

http://www.24grammata.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Robert-Graves-The-Greek-Myths-24grammata.com_.pdf

Why limit the discussion to relatively recent history and only see half the story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule

 

The Golden Rule or ethic of reciprocity is a maxim,^[1] ethical code or morality^[2] that essentially states either of the following:

• (Positive form of Golden Rule): One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself.^[1]
• (Negative form of Golden Rule): One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated.

 

Pop Culture

 

Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure Be excellent to each another.

Monty Pythons Meaning of Life Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.

Wil Wheaton Don't be a dick.

andWinsor15,

The answer is the same as the one I gave in your duplicate thread. Unless you are designing an ISA for a chip from scratch you must conform with the specs for the designated chip/support chips you are using. The registers are built in and you access them and put contents in/out and manipulate their contents through assembly language or the hexadecimal (base 16) of the binary machine code (base 2) that is equivalent to the assembly language instructions, addresses and contents used.

Basically it would be opcode length + address length + register contents length for both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language

Hi imatfaal,

I read the bits about the AMS and wondered if the detection sample size will prove anything statistically significant without severe manipulations of the data set. Observations may need to be made outside the Oort cloud and Kuiper belt to detect original charged cosmic rays coming from outside the solar system. The reference to anti matter is also interesting.

Ting: We want to measure charged cosmic rays. You know, we live under 60 miles of atmosphere, it's like 30 feet of water. So original charged cosmic rays cannot be detected on Earth; therefore, you have to go to space.

In July 2012, it was reported that AMS-02 had recorded over 18 billion cosmic ray events since its installation.

I will be looking out for both papers to see what goes on.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/one_swallow_does_not_a_summer_make

From a remark by Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE): "One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."

I just finished Xenophon's 'A history of my times' or 'Hellenica' which continues from where Thucydidies 'History of the Peloponesian War' about the war between ancient Athens and Sparta, left off.

I'm also re-reading Robert Grave's 'The Greek Myths' a 'retelling of the stories of the ancient Greek gods and heroes, embodying the conclusions of modern anthropology and archaeology'. This book is a consolidation of the majority of references to the topic from Homer, ancient Greece, Rome etc to the early 1950's.

Both are pre 1970's translations that only get into the moral relativism between the different ancient Greek cultures of the time.

I have also recently finished Peter Levi's translation of Pausanias 'Guide to Greece', an ancient tour guide of all the towns and temples written by a doctor circa 200 ad, which was one of the main sources for Robert Graves book and a key reference for modern Greek archaeologists.

Hi Hawnk,

You can probably do it in MS Excel with 3 lookup tables or worksheets depending on the complexity. That way you can set up your data in consistent rows and columns on one worksheet for statistical analysis or copy and past to other applications for the analysis. The MS Excel help files have examples of lookup tables and worksheets.

If there is no free-will, is it right for an individual to blame others for his or her problems in life?

An increasingly polarized society can behave very much like a pendulum as manipulated public perceptions swing from one side to the other with increasing frequency. If you go with the flow and swap sides and perceptions (regardless of morality, ethics and principles) and say nothing you will probably be perceived as positive by your masters of either persuasion (regardless of your morality, ethics or principles) but if you have a static perception of morality and ethics and view both extremes in this light you are more likely to be perceived by your masters of either side as negative regardless of your absolute position in the moderate center.

I suppose it's up to the individual whether they value morality, ethics and principles over the alternative. At least according to the latest definitions of rape, the people who struggle or resist have some recourse while those who consent would be considered willing participants if no duress was involved.

Entanglement is an interesting concept as the masters of either side try to make the people complicit in any atrocities to lengthen their reign when the pendulum starts to swing the other way. Sometimes this works for a little while and sometimes it merely accelerates the rate of the swing.

One thing is for certain, when 'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil' becomes the social norm, evil is in control and the pendulum naturally wants to swing the other way.

Even CERN don't claim they have definitively found it any more than their previous announcements. The bolded bit below reminds me more of when global economists agreed that two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth don't indicate a recession in 2001, just before the dot com bubble burst, rather than any new scientific discovery.

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/03/new-results-indicate-new-particle-higgs-boson

 

At the

Moriond Conference today, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary new results that further elucidate the particle discovered last year. Having analysed two and a half times more data than was available for the discovery announcement in July, they find that the new particle is looking more and more like a Higgs boson, the particle linked to the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles. It remains an open question, however, whether this is the Higgs boson of the Standard Model of particle physics, or possibly the lightest of several bosons predicted in some theories that go beyond the Standard Model. Finding the answer to this question will take time.

Here is a comparison for those who think they might be cane toads. I have only spotted 5 cane toad tadpoles in the pool all up compared with hundreds of Blue Tree frogs.

The cane toad tadpoles are much larger, are not blue in color, move very sluggishly and keep near the top in the fresher water. That's a ratio of around 2-3 % cane toads to blue tree frogs.

Here are a few more images.

And some more.

Actually that's Beach Blue with google translate and it seems that the original 1790's taxonomy was correct for the wrong reasons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_coloration

Mechanisms of colour production in animals. Animal coloration may be the result of any combination of pigments, chromatophores, structural coloration and bioluminescence.
...

Coloration by Pigments. Many animals, including mammals, birds, and amphibians, are unable to synthesize most of the pigments that colour their fur or feathers, other than the brown or black melanins that give many mammals their earth tones.
...

Variable coloration by chromatophores. Amphibians such as frogs have three kinds of star-shaped chromatophore cells in separate layers of their skin. The top layer contains 'xanthophores' with orange, red, or yellow pigments; the middle layer contains 'iridophores' with a silvery light-reflecting pigment; while the bottom layer contains 'melanophores' with dark melanin.

As the Australian Green Tree frog is incorrectly called Litoria caerulea (Bleach Blue), I called this one Litoria caeruleum (means the same) to distinguish it. The original could possibly be called Litoria aureum viridi (gold/green) and this one Litoria aureum cæruleum (gold/blue).

If future offspring could return to gold/blue in fresh water the change would be reversible although the internal salt content change may only allow successful breeding with other blue frogs in salty water due to osmosis.

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/18385220

I would never have believed that there was a salt water frog that looked much like a Green tree frog until I saw these little frogs in my pool the other day. I initially thought they might be cane toads until I had a closer look and noticed that they had smooth skin and spots of gold along their sides. While the pool pump hasn't been working for a couple of months (no chlorination) and we have had quite a bit of rain lately the pool is still very salty the juveniles like to sit about a metre down before they come out.

Freycinet's Blue Frog was originally discovered by Louis de Freycinet during an expedition led by D’Entrecasteaux in 1791.

The drawing here from the State Library of NSW, painted circa 1790's, looks very much like the juvenile frogs in my pool and the adults that also live near near my fathers saltwater pool.

http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=411901#

The following link refers to a Green Tree frog that was pickled in alcohol that appeared blue as the green pigment was dissolved. These frogs have black/blue skin but are alive and kicking.

http://www.aqob.com.au/details.php?p_id=464&search=lee&searchid=38&seo=Australia's_Mysterious_Blue_Frogs

If you know anything about osmosis through semi permeable membranes you'd know that they must have quite a high concentration of salt internally to be able to survive in these conditions.

Basically it would be opcode length + address length + register contents length for both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language

MOV AL, 61h ; Load AL with 97 decimal (61 hex)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Cattle_Dog

The Australian Cattle Dog is a medium-sized, short-coated dog that occurs in two main colour forms. It has either brown or black hair distributed fairly evenly through a white coat, which gives the appearance of a "red" or "blue" dog. It has been nicknamed a "Red Heeler" or "Blue Heeler" on the basis of this colouring and its practice of moving reluctant cattle by nipping at their heels.

A mate had a Blue Cattle dog and crossed it with a Red Cattle Dog/Dingo cross and the result was a pure Brown Cattle Dog with no white.

Just a little side note.

 

I believe there IS a blue breed of cow developed on King Island or some obscure Oz island, tho I believe some have white patches or flecking. I believe it is not yet officially recognised as a breed, but it's colour is to be a feature of the breed.

 

It was started from inbred cattle found on a farm on the island, and the farmer's wife loved the look of them, and when her husband sold cows, or a favorite bull, as mongrel, unimportant cattle, she'd storm over to the buyer and buy them back, for more, until he gave up.

Sorry to disapoint you menageriemanor but King Island Blue is a cheese. The cows aren't blue that's the colour of the mold in the cheese.

http://kingislanddairy.com.au/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_cheese

Save that one for April 1 LOL.

I am struggling to find consistent information about where to look in the sky this evening for a chance to see the Neo (I am in outer London on northeast). Between Leo and the Plough seems the most regular advice from 8pm - but that's a big space and an uncertain time. I have tried pasting the orbital elements into fourmilab yoursky without success

 

Any clues - preferable a sky map with a nice line drawn on it?

Don't be surprised which direction they come from imatfaal.

The Russian meteorite came from east to west and 2012 DA14 was supposed to go from south to north.

http://www.today.it/mondo/cuba-meteorite.html

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2013/02/16/in-last-2-days-fireballs-were-reported-all-over-the-world-sweden-netherlands-russia-japan-cuba/

http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.com.au/http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.com.au/

One came over where I live from west to east around the time 2012 DA14 was supposed to pass by.

Report them if you do see any.

Ophiolite and Spyman, It might help to look at the basics first without the paths.

Laurie, I would still appreciate an answer to my question in post #4. Doubtless I am being real dumb and missing the obvious, but is that a reason to avoid answering? I suppose it must be.

If you rotate the NASA/JPL plan image so that the arrow to the sun aligns with the end elevation images arrow to the sun the path of 2012 DA14 goes from the north and heads towards the south not vice a versa.

I always thought that Australia was downunder i.e. the Southern Hemisphere.

Hi Spyman,

83% of radiologists failed to spot the gorilla in the x-ray too.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57568784/can-you-spot-the-gorilla-in-this-ct-scan-most-radiologists-couldnt/

Considering that 9.2k people watched the NASA video with 37K likes the percentage of people who failed to spot this error is at least 99.9999%. Not good.

In the movie The Dish the young Australian technician said he redid the calculations because NASA had done the Southern Hemisphere calculations from the perspective of the Northern Hemisphere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dish_(movie)

10 minutes ago I saw, during our 5:00pm news, that NASA has asked an Australian amateur astronomer to track the asteroid because the Sliding Springs (Australia's largest) Observatory is out of action due to bush fires. The simulated path is shown in red and it looks very much like the calcs were done wrong again.