It makes me wonder why they haven't developed hard drives to work in a vacuum.
Because gas makes it soo easy!
As the hard-drive spins, it pulls in some air along with it at the surface. The read/write head literally floats above this fast moving airstream. This allows the head to be made cheeply - they don't have to have inteligent or actuators to keep the head right above the disk itself. They just float.
If you read the spec sheets for most hard drives - they ususall have a limit of 10,000 ft. Above that, the air is not dense enough.
One could argue, why don't the just presurise the drives and seal them off: I've heard that the drives need to out gas for a few months after manufacture.
When is America going to wake up out of this hypocrisy?
Hopefully not anytime soon!!
I rather enjoy my life of opressing the lower-classes.
Gotta-jet - it's time fout our annual Hlaiburton/Nader meeting - hopefully Nader will be able to pull off another doozy. He's so cheep too.. it's amazing what he'll do for a box of marshmallow peeps.
Now I have to boycott: Alstate insurance, Sun and Apple.
Why coulden't it have been McDonalds, Wal*Mart and Microsoft? They're easy to boycott - unless you happen to like stale food, crappy junk and buggy software.
Change the TTY/Realy number to a 1-900 numner and charge calls from whereever ther're made. Say $1.00 a minuite.
Then every month - Registered and bonified deaf people can submit a copy of their telephone invoice to the Federal Government and get a refund check for the amount used.
People who abuse the system without being daaf get to pay for it - deaf people get this vital service for free.
* Taskbars
TRS-80 CoCo with Microware OS-9 had a Taskbar - in 1986 * Maximize, minimize, and close buttons in the upper-right corner.
My TRS-80 with Microware OS-9 has these. You could could configure them where you liked them. In 1986. * The standard print dialog.
I'm impressed - Microsoft made a dialog. * Internet browser/file browser integration.
Make your OS just as bugy as your browser. Great Idea!!! * "Start" menus
Copied off of NeXT. *.NET technology -
Copied off of Java and Pcode *...and much, much more
Like....
Clippy!
Product Activation!
Serial Codes!
No support for Alpha, Risc, PowerPC.
The only thing Microsoft did was to get 386 computesr to behave like computers costing much more (UNIX Workstations, Apples..) . Now that hardware performance is a lot cheaper - there's no need to run crappy software like Windows. You can get the real deal.
Your example probably fits in the Level 1 cache of your processor - try doing the test with a 20 meg array, picking one random place to compare with another random pace and you'll probably get a diferent result. Oh... the tokens for linking arn't only one char in length... you might want to choose somthing larger.
The BBC news report I saw earlier on stated that BT planned on issuing mobile phones temporarily to people elderly living in sheltered housing.
The elderly living in un-sheltered housing, however, get scraps of cardboard cut into the shape of a mobile phone. Oh... and a doggy-bicsuit for good luck and/or snackies.
For some reason I have trouble believing you have a fiance:P
Me too. It's kind of scarry:
It's the first interactive thing that I've been around won't respond to keyboard commands, but responds just fine when I use her IBM Trackpoint. Weird.
A4 paper the size of a pressed sheet of paper from an old paper mill, folded down and trimmed around the edges to a nice finish - it looks quite nice.
US Letter is the size of a pressed sheet of paper from and old paper mill, folded down and not trimmed - you woulden't want to waste any precious paper, because gosh darn it...it's expensive here in the Colonies.
If you felt paranoid enough to need quantumly generated random numbers, would you really get the numbers over the internet from an untrusted source?
Even if this source of randomness is compromised, adding it to your already existing sources of randomness coulden't hurt. It's best to layer sources of randomness on top of each other - so if one source or two isen't random, the whole stack of randomness isen't compromised.
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There was this line of brightly colored DVD players designed for kids near the Kareoke section. It had only a few, large, high-contrast buttons.
Would be great for the hard of sight as was onlt $60 or so.
I get 5 sci-books a month - and get to download them in normall HTML.
webscriptions.net - from the publisher Baen. There's some free books there too to get you hooked.
Baen's books are generally light reading - usually fun and interesting.
What a looser... He's running OpenBSD 3.2 - just like me. He diden't apply the OpenSSH patches and I got right in. I'll just rm -r / [NO CARRIER]
Try the veto files directive in Samba
veto files =
in you smb.conf files.
I used veto files before to geep you the pesky "My Music" folder that windows plops down when it thinks a smaba share is a "My Documents" folder.
Microsoft is known for paying people to try to sway public opionion: info here
It this why, in the last 6-months, Slashdot has had a rash of "Nintendo is Dying" stories?
I'll really know we've been astroturfed if I see a "poor beleagured Nintendo" story.
I think this is extremely cool. A short way to enter queries by even bypassing the home page completely
KDE's broswer lets you do this:
google:query text
it works with other search engines besides Google as well.
It makes me wonder why they haven't developed hard drives to work in a vacuum.
Because gas makes it soo easy!
As the hard-drive spins, it pulls in some air along with it at the surface. The read/write head literally floats above this fast moving airstream. This allows the head to be made cheeply - they don't have to have inteligent or actuators to keep the head right above the disk itself. They just float.
If you read the spec sheets for most hard drives - they ususall have a limit of 10,000 ft. Above that, the air is not dense enough.
One could argue, why don't the just presurise the drives and seal them off: I've heard that the drives need to out gas for a few months after manufacture.
When is America going to wake up out of this hypocrisy?
Hopefully not anytime soon!!
I rather enjoy my life of opressing the lower-classes.
Gotta-jet - it's time fout our annual Hlaiburton/Nader meeting - hopefully Nader will be able to pull off another doozy. He's so cheep too.. it's amazing what he'll do for a box of marshmallow peeps.
Perhaps if DirectX actually was inferior, and if it wasn't the primary or only API for 90% of the games out there, you'd have a point.
DirectX is great for PC Games - but for real scientific/commercial work it *SUCKS*.
Whenn Boeing dows the next 7E7 fly-though in DirectX, give me a call.
How to acquire French cuisine in four simple steps:
1. Go to France.
2. Find blind man eating a sandwich.
3. Hit blind man with hammer.
4. Enjoy sandwich.
No need for violence. Replace Step #3 with: Say to him - "I am German."
I don't have to fear the pan-handlers, insane and other strays because we actually have a social care system that works.
You *ALSO* have the benifit os a stable socioty that has set expectations on behaviour.
We Americans come from so many parts of the world, that we Americans can have many views of other Americans...
One person's "Gun Nut" is another person's "2nd Amemendment Fan."
One person's "Dirty Hippy" is another person's "Free Sprit."
America *is* the land of pan-handlers, insandes and strays.
I like it that way - it's interesting.
(PS Thanks for all your previous work with FreeBSD - 4.9 is polised perfection and the 5.0 series is facinating)
Ugg!!
Now I have to boycott: Alstate insurance, Sun and Apple.
Why coulden't it have been McDonalds, Wal*Mart and Microsoft? They're easy to boycott - unless you happen to like stale food, crappy junk and buggy software.
So how is this thing supposed to determine if Granny is is a diabetic coma verses taking a sound nap?
By seeing how Granny responds to some sweet robot luvin'.
but I see two big problems as stated: 1) it requires all Deaf to register.
I don't see registration being too onerous to get a service that is *heavilly* subsudised by other taxpayers.
Here's a simple fix:
Change the TTY/Realy number to a 1-900 numner and charge calls from whereever ther're made. Say $1.00 a minuite.
Then every month - Registered and bonified deaf people can submit a copy of their telephone invoice to the Federal Government and get a refund check for the amount used.
People who abuse the system without being daaf get to pay for it - deaf people get this vital service for free.
It's maddening, I tell you!
No it not! I think it's quite funny!
MSFT stock going sideways for years, Linux gaining marketshare. It's great!
Ahem...
.NET technology - ...and much, much more
* Taskbars
TRS-80 CoCo with Microware OS-9 had a Taskbar - in 1986
* Maximize, minimize, and close buttons in the upper-right corner.
My TRS-80 with Microware OS-9 has these. You could could configure them where you liked them. In 1986.
* The standard print dialog.
I'm impressed - Microsoft made a dialog.
* Internet browser/file browser integration.
Make your OS just as bugy as your browser. Great Idea!!!
* "Start" menus
Copied off of NeXT.
*
Copied off of Java and Pcode
*
Like....
Clippy!
Product Activation!
Serial Codes!
No support for Alpha, Risc, PowerPC.
The only thing Microsoft did was to get 386 computesr to behave like computers costing much more (UNIX Workstations, Apples..) . Now that hardware performance is a lot cheaper - there's no need to run crappy software like Windows. You can get the real deal.
Your example probably fits in the Level 1 cache of your processor - try doing the test with a 20 meg array, picking one random place to compare with another random pace and you'll probably get a diferent result. Oh... the tokens for linking arn't only one char in length... you might want to choose somthing larger.
the code checkout itself took an hour over my connection, and I only have a 500MHz G3, I'd be old and grey before it finished.
You need a PC with the new Intel Quata-Speed Extreme Technology(TM). It makes the Interweb Faster!
The BBC news report I saw earlier on stated that BT planned on issuing mobile phones temporarily to people elderly living in sheltered housing.
The elderly living in un-sheltered housing, however, get scraps of cardboard cut into the shape of a mobile phone. Oh... and a doggy-bicsuit for good luck and/or snackies.
For some reason I have trouble believing you have a fiance :P
Me too. It's kind of scarry:
It's the first interactive thing that I've been around won't respond to keyboard commands, but responds just fine when I use her IBM Trackpoint. Weird.
Thank God - not another facial gone wrong.
You know you've been at the pr0n too much when your think what I was just thinkings.
The worst was when my fiance went to the spa, came back, ans said "I had a great facial. My face smells great!".
Did a double-take on that one...
The A4 vs US Letter is an interesting story...
A4 paper the size of a pressed sheet of paper from an old paper mill, folded down and trimmed around the edges to a nice finish - it looks quite nice.
US Letter is the size of a pressed sheet of paper from and old paper mill, folded down and not trimmed - you woulden't want to waste any precious paper, because gosh darn it...it's expensive here in the Colonies.
If you felt paranoid enough to need quantumly generated random numbers, would you really get the numbers over the internet from an untrusted source?
Even if this source of randomness is compromised, adding it to your already existing sources of randomness coulden't hurt. It's best to layer sources of randomness on top of each other - so if one source or two isen't random, the whole stack of randomness isen't compromised.
Even their mothers have buildings named after them! This is insane.
That's because they can't name the buildings after their fathers. It wouldn't look good to name the building "UPS-Man and Pool-Boy Building."