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In the UK there are academic grids that research groups can use like the ngs or gridpp (for free or next to nothing) http://ngs.ac.uk/use-ngs I used to work at the Center for Parallel Computing where I am sure some people would talk to her. http://www.cpc.wmin.ac.uk/cpcsite/index.php/Main_Page

I have thinking about this as well. I live in London, and I am worried IT is not that awesome anymore when I graduate. I am a second year student student here: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/cscs/page-75 If anyone has any career advice or comments on my future prospects, please feel free. I already have 3 years experience in entry level data entry in media (why I got bored and wanted a degree). Thanks.

depends on the class laser that being pointed into your eye...Laser Pointer Safety and so you know, anyone can buy a class 3b laser which can cause damage to the retina in the time it takes to blink

Quote from Laser Safety Information
"Class 3B lasers are very likely to cause damage to the eye before the aversion response operates."

they just want a count of the number of users that don't use/enable javascript.

Whatever happened to the idea about using a balanced ternary system of money?

Sounds like our American friends pinching the credit for being first in something again :-)... AFAIK the first working, widely used industrial standard (discounting myths about Roman roads etc.) was the Whitworth thread, or "British Standard Whitworth" (still in use today) from Sir Joseph Whitworth in 1841. Standards in screw threads made possible huge simplifications in industrial processes.

Before this time standards and interchangeable parts were almost impossible, because craftsman made parts 'to fit'. (The parrallels with computer programming today are striking :-) ).

A nice article about how the Americans then decided to reinvent their own standard at wired: Turn of the Century

The story is that the whole thing was kicked off to a large extent by the mass manufacturing needed to create the Babbage engine, and Whitworth's experiences working on it... Babbage and Whitworth and machining and stuff

"Hulk will impale Superman on sentence fragment!"

They don't make Net humor like that any more.

It's a problem in base-2 also. Base-5 wouldn't have the problem, though.

Base-3 for computers would solve the problem. Apparently, in the very early days of computing there was some interest in base-3, although it never took off.

You could represent base-3 with -1, 0, 1. This is called balanced ternary notation. Quantum computers may end up using that variant of base-3. (I wish I could find a better quantum computing link. One of my former coworkers was doing his PhD on this stuff, and it was really quite fascinating.)

You mean like a balanced ternary?

this, this, and this Oracularity for the answer to that question.

this, this, and this Oracularity for the answer to that question.

this, this, and this Oracularity for the answer to that question.

Good Link on ternary systems

Hear "chussh chussh chussh", turn around and you're blind. More information about these cruel weapons here.
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• First, here are lecture notes from a college course on operating system design.
• Second, some more meterial from another university (it's not clear to me that this is from a course).
• Third, a terse document detailing broad set of features common to operating systems of different periods (also part of an operating sytems course).
• Fourth, another page, which seems to be part of college course, with a section on the history of operating systems.
• Fifth, a web-slideshow on the topic.
• And Finally, a smattering of other links to the same topic by even more authors: another lecture from a college course, chapter 3, section 1 from the book Introductory Information Protection by Fred Cohen & Associates, Operating Systems - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, and Evolution of Operating Systems User Interface Design

The original text can be found here.

Meerkat.

That's a pretty tepid imitation of the incomparable Og, of rec.humor.oracle fame.