It's no more hard to follow than any of Douglas Adams books. If you like his books you won't get bored reading through those 11 pages. It's both practical yet somewhat surreal.
How can you bomb something that has not existed for over 10 years? I'm talking about the former country of Soviet Union that is now a group of over a dosen of independent states easily identifiable on a map.
I must have happened at least once, or they never would have done the recall. Basic formula, if the cost of a recall is less than the legal bills, they do a recall. Guess someone got zapped pretty good to scare them into a recall.
Doesn't necessarily have to happen for a recall to take place. There have been many recalls in auto industry where something may potentially happen with no precedent and a recall comes out for thousands of cars. A parking brake recall on Ford Mustangs a couple of years ago comes to mind. No cars rolled down a slope but there was a slight chance that one in a million might one day, IIRC.
Granted, consequences of an auto accident are more severe and generally involve a greater number of victims/injuries than a computer/electroshock accident. But no industry like lawsuits, frivolous or not, because they don't do much good to their reputation.
I agree - it might have been easier to remember if they called them left-endian and right-endian. Visual memory is snappier to sink in than arbitrary abstract unless you know (or bother to figure out) the roots of a term or expression.
> Besides I can't really think of any reason why > someone would want UV to get through.
Direct sunlight kills many (most) of microorganisms. I think that it's the UV part of it doing the job. Don't know whether it's worth having faded surfaces though..
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Modern CMOS logic gates use pairs of transistors at their outputs, not single transistors. If the upper one is conducting, it is 1 state of the gate. If the lower one - 0 state. If neither is conducting, the resulting state is HiZ, used to connect multiple outputs to the same bus. If both are conducting, you can guess what happens:).
What happens on the very high level (OS)? GPF, kernel panick, blue screen and so on?
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It's no more hard to follow than any of Douglas Adams books. If you like his books you won't get bored reading through those 11 pages. It's both practical yet somewhat surreal.
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Matrix.. or SkyNet. Anything but not Hal.
Argh - now I recall. You're right. There also were political/satirical cartoons on that at the time.
How can you bomb something that has not existed for over 10 years? I'm talking about the former country of Soviet Union that is now a group of over a dosen of independent states easily identifiable on a map.
I must have happened at least once, or they never would have done the recall. Basic formula, if the cost of a recall is less than the legal bills, they do a recall. Guess someone got zapped pretty good to scare them into a recall.
Doesn't necessarily have to happen for a recall to take place. There have been many recalls in auto industry where something may potentially happen with no precedent and a recall comes out for thousands of cars. A parking brake recall on Ford Mustangs a couple of years ago comes to mind. No cars rolled down a slope but there was a slight chance that one in a million might one day, IIRC.
Granted, consequences of an auto accident are more severe and generally involve a greater number of victims/injuries than a computer/electroshock accident. But no industry like lawsuits, frivolous or not, because they don't do much good to their reputation.
-vp
I agree - it might have been easier to remember if they called them left-endian and right-endian. Visual memory is snappier to sink in than arbitrary abstract unless you know (or bother to figure out) the roots of a term or expression.
It should be opt-in, not opt-out. Problem solved.
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Outside the North America and some of the Asian countries, it is common to use day-month-year.
Other things many locals may find different, besides Metric system that is..
-- commas for separating thousands, not dots/periods
one million - 1.000.000 and commas for separating the decimals, ie Pie=3,14
-- billion actually means 1000,000,000,000, not 1000,000,000
-- 24 hrs time definitions - surpsisingly some folks here don't know that, for example, 20:00 means 8 pm.
> Besides I can't really think of any reason why
> someone would want UV to get through.
Direct sunlight kills many (most) of microorganisms. I think that it's the UV part of it doing the job. Don't know whether it's worth having faded surfaces though..
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Modern CMOS logic gates use pairs of transistors at their outputs, not single transistors. If the upper one is conducting, it is 1 state of the gate. If the lower one - 0 state. If neither is conducting, the resulting state is HiZ, used to connect multiple outputs to the same bus. If both are conducting, you can guess what happens:). What happens on the very high level (OS)? GPF, kernel panick, blue screen and so on?
Much longer than 1500 hrs. I'd say 5,000 at the bare minium and it probably also require same or fewer amount of fuel (by weight).
And also our annoying friend Roblimo. I'd rather see him in the list of zapping targets than put a checkbox along his name in the filter preferences.