Hm. The XBox2's cpu will be a PPC750, won't it? Doesn't this chip have the "no execute" flag, with which you can designate a given area of memory as non-executable data, thereby eliminating (or greatly reducing) the threat from buffer overflows?
On the other hand, a flash card will be less useful on a cracked machine because they're not as durable as a hard drive. IIRC 10,000 writes is the mean time between failures for flash.
There's been IM spam for/years/ already. My ICQ account has been spammed several times by someone wanting me to visit their website, which is invariably pornographic.
That's a known problem - just don't use the kernel framebuffer.
I was hacked off at first when I discovered that, then I grabbed v1.10 of SVGATextMode, which supports "Riva128" (nvidia) cards. That made it even easier to have high-resolution/high-refresh console modes, once I wrote the modelines for it.
What happens if something goes wrong with Webb? It could be destroyed in a launching accident, it could fail to activate once it reaches its orbit, and so on. With Webb and Hubble both gone, we're SOL for extra-atmospheric astronomy.
The Battle of Midway comes to mind. The US had inferior numbers (3 aircraft carriers vs 4, a smaller surface fleet) and our aircraft were generally inferior to the Japanese. The A6M Zero was faster, more maneuverable, and better armed than the F4F Wildcat and F2A Buffalo. There was simply no comparison between the B5N Kate torpedo bomber and our TBD Devastator. The American SBD Dauntless was generally superior to the Japanese D3A Val dive bomber.
However, we did have one overwhelming "equipment" superiority - cryptography that let us know what the Japanese had planned.
We also had sheer luck on our side - the Japanese had fueled and armed aircraft on their carrier decks right when the American dive bombers appeared overhead.
I can see where someone might be offended about the "marines raising the flag" imagery. It could be seen to make light of the sacrifices the American fighting men have made.
The comparison's not apt. Floppy drives are common as dirt and the media is very cheap (per unit, not per byte), and there's no easy read/write replacement yet. CD-RW drives aren't common enough yet (and UDF/CD-MRW support isn't widespread enough), and Zip disks require proprietary drives.
Parallel IDE will die. When was the last time anyone bought a new MFM or ESDI drive?
Apple//c:
128 kB RAM
1.4 MHz MOS 65C02 8-bit processor
2x 143 kB 5.25" floppy drives, one internal
Apple ImageWriter II color dot-matrix printer
One-button mouse, rather like a Mac's
Joystick
12" color monitor
Koala pad (remember those?)
Ran both Apple DOS 3.3 and an early ProDOS.
$GF and I went to see Terminator 3, and this "parent" had brought her two children in to see it - they looked about 1 year old and 3 years old.
It gets to that point in the movie when they're heading to the cemetery and the T-X is in the back of the car, and T-X impales the driver from behind. "Parent" covers her 3-year-old's eyes, much too late.
Kid's probably going to be scarred for life because his mom's a complete idiot.
With your method, we're not actually measuring Planck time units, but instead "units that are approximately n Planck units long" - you can't get the resolution down that fine.
That's... frightening that COBOL programs might still be in use in the 4330s. I could see it happening, though. Some poor schmoe who's been frozen since his death is resurrected to fix code he wrote more than 2000 years ago...
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AIUI the period after RotJ is the province of novel-writers.
Hm. The XBox2's cpu will be a PPC750, won't it? Doesn't this chip have the "no execute" flag, with which you can designate a given area of memory as non-executable data, thereby eliminating (or greatly reducing) the threat from buffer overflows?
On the other hand, a flash card will be less useful on a cracked machine because they're not as durable as a hard drive. IIRC 10,000 writes is the mean time between failures for flash.
There's been IM spam for /years/ already. My ICQ account has been spammed several times by someone wanting me to visit their website, which is invariably pornographic.
But what if you have a complete nincompoop elected for President, but he's not such an obvious criminal as to get impeached?
I for one wouldn't want a president like Bush in office for any longer than the current 4 years.
Since you obviously have no clue what you're talking about, let me explain:
That's Congress, AKA the government.Nowhere does it say J. Random Person can't take away your "free speech" rights. This is why your boss can control what you say on the clock.
+1 to karma for correctly spelling "definitely". ./ is slowly eroding my own ability to spell...
That's a known problem - just don't use the kernel framebuffer.
I was hacked off at first when I discovered that, then I grabbed v1.10 of SVGATextMode, which supports "Riva128" (nvidia) cards. That made it even easier to have high-resolution/high-refresh console modes, once I wrote the modelines for it.
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What happens if something goes wrong with Webb? It could be destroyed in a launching accident, it could fail to activate once it reaches its orbit, and so on. With Webb and Hubble both gone, we're SOL for extra-atmospheric astronomy.
The Battle of Midway comes to mind. The US had inferior numbers (3 aircraft carriers vs 4, a smaller surface fleet) and our aircraft were generally inferior to the Japanese. The A6M Zero was faster, more maneuverable, and better armed than the F4F Wildcat and F2A Buffalo. There was simply no comparison between the B5N Kate torpedo bomber and our TBD Devastator. The American SBD Dauntless was generally superior to the Japanese D3A Val dive bomber.
However, we did have one overwhelming "equipment" superiority - cryptography that let us know what the Japanese had planned.
We also had sheer luck on our side - the Japanese had fueled and armed aircraft on their carrier decks right when the American dive bombers appeared overhead.
The Hurri was piston-engined, powered by the classic Rolls-Royce Merlin.
I can see where someone might be offended about the "marines raising the flag" imagery. It could be seen to make light of the sacrifices the American fighting men have made.
I think that's spelt "daimon", actually.
Very interesting post otherwise.
The comparison's not apt. Floppy drives are common as dirt and the media is very cheap (per unit, not per byte), and there's no easy read/write replacement yet. CD-RW drives aren't common enough yet (and UDF/CD-MRW support isn't widespread enough), and Zip disks require proprietary drives.
Parallel IDE will die. When was the last time anyone bought a new MFM or ESDI drive?
You should use one of Verisign's competitors. Thawte, for example. They couldn't be any more incompetently run than Verisign, surely.
Um, no. Linux requires a 386 or greater on x86 and always has.
Boy, it's a good thing you weren't the project manager for the Viking landings.
Apple //c:
128 kB RAM
1.4 MHz MOS 65C02 8-bit processor
2x 143 kB 5.25" floppy drives, one internal
Apple ImageWriter II color dot-matrix printer
One-button mouse, rather like a Mac's
Joystick
12" color monitor
Koala pad (remember those?)
Ran both Apple DOS 3.3 and an early ProDOS.
Y'think that's bad, try this:
$GF and I went to see Terminator 3, and this "parent" had brought her two children in to see it - they looked about 1 year old and 3 years old.
It gets to that point in the movie when they're heading to the cemetery and the T-X is in the back of the car, and T-X impales the driver from behind. "Parent" covers her 3-year-old's eyes, much too late.
Kid's probably going to be scarred for life because his mom's a complete idiot.
With your method, we're not actually measuring Planck time units, but instead "units that are approximately n Planck units long" - you can't get the resolution down that fine.
Is it even possible to reliably measure how many units of Planck time pass in a given interval, theoretically or otherwise?
That's... frightening that COBOL programs might still be in use in the 4330s. I could see it happening, though. Some poor schmoe who's been frozen since his death is resurrected to fix code he wrote more than 2000 years ago...
Never worked on a luser's computer, have you?