You safety concerns make no sense. It uses the standard remote starter. And even so, any modern automatic won't start in gear (most won't even let you take the key out of the ignition if it is in gear).
There was a repair in the same location (and shape) as the peice that fell off. Many engineers at NASA feel that as long as that foam is undamaged/repaired it will behave as it should. Obviously the safest thing to do is to remove the foam, but they must ensure that it will not affect the aerodynamics adversly. Its a trade off. They know how the PAL ramp behaves, and have good reason to think that it won't shed.
While I do agree that this is hype from MS, and if they produce 1mil/month, they are going to need alot of warehouse space...
The shortage still exists in localities. In my area, the only the only 2 places that carry them (walmart and shopko) are barely getting them. Shopko hasnt had any in months, and walmart gets maybe 5-10 a month, and they sell w/in a day or 2 of receiving them.
Actually they significantly toned down the runway after the first few flights to it.
They were worried about cross winds and such, and not knowing how the shuttle would handle on it, so they made it basically the most aggressive runway surface made. It was so abrasive, that after a single landing, the rubber would be worn of all the way down to the structural cording in the tire (the material behind that tred/outer layers of rubber)
With the runway as it is now, the tires are actually rated for 3 (or maybe 4) landings, but they are relatively cheap, around 150k for a complete set IIRC, so they don't see a reason to risk it.
It depends what you mean by flat. If you mean strait, then no it isn't but in this case, it means that along its entire length, it is the same distance from center of the earth along its entire length (+- 1/2in)
Its way inside the general public exclusion zone for a launch (4-5mi from the pads), only press, family, and NASA ppl are allowed that close, and landings will be nowhere near there. You need very large flat land with no-objects. They are talking desert, quite probably the Utah desert, where the unmanned capsules have come back.
As somewhat pointed out, the 2 most important things about the KSC are its width (2-3 times the width of a standard, large, commercial runway), and its flatness.
The KSC runway varies no more the 1in vertically along its length. Its so flat, it was specifically designed to properly follow the curvature of the earth. Most commecial runways are very very not flat, they usually have long period (1 or 2 over the length) undulations in them.
In my experience as a photographer, it can by very difficult to take decent pictures of LCD screens when using point and shoot cameras. Its pretty easy with a DSLR tho.
This is pretty much bull.
XP already supports EFI booting, gateway has been shipping EFI machines for years now, despite XP not 'supporting' it.
The first EFI computer, a Gateway PC, went on sale in November. Others are expected to appear in 2004, with ever greater numbers coming in the following years. But not everyone is jumping on the EFI bandwagon. PC makers have been historically reluctant to change as their customers, especially businesses, often prefer stability. Hence the resilience of the floppy drive, despite many efforts to kill it off.
The point of this is to see how secure the OS is w/o hardening, and in a more typical networked situation. For that matter they are softening it to attack compared to the stock configuration.
The ZDnet article simply was not reported correctly, and gave the wrong implications. Even with the added sentence, the article tries to make it sound like its vulnerable to remote exploits and you have to be worried about having your machine on the internet.
Yup, there will always be a case in the future where you will likely need to replace your content, or go through the hassle of converting it, just like with LP's, Cassettes, CD's, and yes, even iTunes tracks.
Yes, he converts his tracks from CDs into MP3's because he wants to. If i want, I can convert my songs back into CDs, or cassettes, or even LP's if I was really determined. So far no-one has really stopped you (some have tried, but Apple is pretty lenient about it) from being able to convert your media.
This just sounds like the 'CDs are the devil, everyone should still by LPs' argument in a new skin.
That assumes that intel wants the safety critical market for this processor. In most cases, when you develop in this sector, you have to use hardware that is specificly designed for these applications. developing chips that can be certified for SC applications can be a pain in the ass, and the may simply not car for this chip.
Probably not. Think about it, the iMac's in the wild can sleep.
While I heard nothing about them not sleeping, if true, it is more likely to do with the fact that those machine were prototypes, and they probably were not fully complete machines (that was a lot of prototypes to make for the show)
geeks.com has pumped up these problems by doing their own analysis, and claiming 'show stopper' on many of them, yet there are already machines in the wild that seem to have no problem with many of them. Like them saying that machines wouldn't be able to wake from sleep because of one of them. Their analysis is a lot of FUD.
Another thing here that people don't seem to get, is that just because there have been 1.5 'found' a day (I would bet most were known before general release), that says nothing about the total number of bugs. For all we know, there could be only 40 total, just most of them were found quickly.
Either your A/C unit is horribly bad (running below its rating) or you have some really beefy machines.
I have a room with 2x(2x2.5GHz G5's), a dual xServer, and 3 Pent 4 machines, overall, with the UPS and various other equip, I draw about 1600W under normal load, and my ~.4 ton window unit keeps the room at a comfortable 65.
Incorrect. You do need to authenticate. As an admin you are given slightly brouder privileges, but you are not in wheel. You need to sudo (or the GUI equv) to write to anything in/System/Lib
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You safety concerns make no sense. It uses the standard remote starter. And even so, any modern automatic won't start in gear (most won't even let you take the key out of the ignition if it is in gear).
There was a repair in the same location (and shape) as the peice that fell off. Many engineers at NASA feel that as long as that foam is undamaged/repaired it will behave as it should. Obviously the safest thing to do is to remove the foam, but they must ensure that it will not affect the aerodynamics adversly. Its a trade off. They know how the PAL ramp behaves, and have good reason to think that it won't shed.
While I do agree that this is hype from MS, and if they produce 1mil/month, they are going to need alot of warehouse space...
The shortage still exists in localities. In my area, the only the only 2 places that carry them (walmart and shopko) are barely getting them. Shopko hasnt had any in months, and walmart gets maybe 5-10 a month, and they sell w/in a day or 2 of receiving them.
Umm, thats GB, 800GB. It would be pretty useless at 800MB :)
The problem is, it didn't show at 10 in all time zone. After 10 it would have been fine, but in central and mountain it played earlier then that.
Actually they significantly toned down the runway after the first few flights to it.
They were worried about cross winds and such, and not knowing how the shuttle would handle on it, so they made it basically the most aggressive runway surface made. It was so abrasive, that after a single landing, the rubber would be worn of all the way down to the structural cording in the tire (the material behind that tred/outer layers of rubber)
With the runway as it is now, the tires are actually rated for 3 (or maybe 4) landings, but they are relatively cheap, around 150k for a complete set IIRC, so they don't see a reason to risk it.
It depends what you mean by flat. If you mean strait, then no it isn't but in this case, it means that along its entire length, it is the same distance from center of the earth along its entire length (+- 1/2in)
This place has it: http://www.sprucegoose.org/
I don't think the spruce goose has landing gear.
Its way inside the general public exclusion zone for a launch (4-5mi from the pads), only press, family, and NASA ppl are allowed that close, and landings will be nowhere near there. You need very large flat land with no-objects. They are talking desert, quite probably the Utah desert, where the unmanned capsules have come back.
As somewhat pointed out, the 2 most important things about the KSC are its width (2-3 times the width of a standard, large, commercial runway), and its flatness.
The KSC runway varies no more the 1in vertically along its length. Its so flat, it was specifically designed to properly follow the curvature of the earth. Most commecial runways are very very not flat, they usually have long period (1 or 2 over the length) undulations in them.
In my experience as a photographer, it can by very difficult to take decent pictures of LCD screens when using point and shoot cameras. Its pretty easy with a DSLR tho.
True, but we have no way of knowing if that is an intel mac, they don't have any external differences from the last model of G5 iMacs
I know its a very simple page, with only one image, but it seems to be doing well under the /. load
The point of this is to see how secure the OS is w/o hardening, and in a more typical networked situation. For that matter they are softening it to attack compared to the stock configuration.
The ZDnet article simply was not reported correctly, and gave the wrong implications. Even with the added sentence, the article tries to make it sound like its vulnerable to remote exploits and you have to be worried about having your machine on the internet.
Yup, there will always be a case in the future where you will likely need to replace your content, or go through the hassle of converting it, just like with LP's, Cassettes, CD's, and yes, even iTunes tracks.
Yes, he converts his tracks from CDs into MP3's because he wants to. If i want, I can convert my songs back into CDs, or cassettes, or even LP's if I was really determined. So far no-one has really stopped you (some have tried, but Apple is pretty lenient about it) from being able to convert your media.
This just sounds like the 'CDs are the devil, everyone should still by LPs' argument in a new skin.
That assumes that intel wants the safety critical market for this processor. In most cases, when you develop in this sector, you have to use hardware that is specificly designed for these applications. developing chips that can be certified for SC applications can be a pain in the ass, and the may simply not car for this chip.
Probably not. Think about it, the iMac's in the wild can sleep.
While I heard nothing about them not sleeping, if true, it is more likely to do with the fact that those machine were prototypes, and they probably were not fully complete machines (that was a lot of prototypes to make for the show)
geeks.com has pumped up these problems by doing their own analysis, and claiming 'show stopper' on many of them, yet there are already machines in the wild that seem to have no problem with many of them. Like them saying that machines wouldn't be able to wake from sleep because of one of them. Their analysis is a lot of FUD.
Another thing here that people don't seem to get, is that just because there have been 1.5 'found' a day (I would bet most were known before general release), that says nothing about the total number of bugs. For all we know, there could be only 40 total, just most of them were found quickly.
Wow, that was out of nowhere. Do you think that there are no flaws in AMD processors?
Also, where the hell did DMR come in? You just like throwing that in to boast AMD?
I just think it means that Intel is being more honest about the problems, rather then hiding them til others find them.
Either your A/C unit is horribly bad (running below its rating) or you have some really beefy machines.
I have a room with 2x(2x2.5GHz G5's), a dual xServer, and 3 Pent 4 machines, overall, with the UPS and various other equip, I draw about 1600W under normal load, and my ~.4 ton window unit keeps the room at a comfortable 65.
The was an asteroid named AurtherDent, the day before Douglass Adams died.
Incorrect. You do need to authenticate. As an admin you are given slightly brouder privileges, but you are not in wheel. You need to sudo (or the GUI equv) to write to anything in /System/Lib