If it were an terrorist act, either thru sabotage or concealed explosive, don't you think it would be more 'beneficial' to them to blow up the Shuttle at launch. There would have been more people watching it launched than landing. Also, it would be happened at a closer range and hence induced more demoralizing effect the terrorists wanted. On the other hand, NASA lost the contact with the Shuttle almost precisely at the peak stress point. It most likely points to the structural failure direction.
Maybe the Russians did copy the the Shuttle technologies for their own version. However, they quickly realized that operating the space shuttle is highly expensive and required a lot of effort to maintain reliability. So they scraped it in favor of using the (relatively) cheaper Soyuz modules that had proven reliability record and payload capability.
I would rather it blows the hot air to the other PCI cards than to the CPU. Most modern CPUs are already hot enough by itself. So putting the GPU on the other side will essentially blow the hot air towards the CPU, which would make it hotter still.
GNU Pascal uses ISO Pascal syntax which is quite different than the Borland dialect. So convert the Turbo Power to GNU Pascal could be pretty involved. On the other hand, the Free Pascal has a Delphi compatible mode. So compile Turbo Power in Free Pascal should not be a big problem. The only question is how many of the components depends on VCL. The Free Pascal is still lacking anything equivalent to VCL.
A typical letter-size paper is 8 x 11 inch. So it can contain only 88 KB per page. A bit of an improvement to the 20 KB of the original scheme but still not high enough for Terabyte of data. In addition, this data pattern probably requires compatible hardware/software to read it back. Considering it is non-open source, how do you know it is still available 10 years from now?
No, the XP4 T2 is a desktop chip. The article mentioned there will be a mobile variant XP4 T1 available soon. But I agree with you and others that it is unfair to compare it against Ti4200 and ATI Radeon 9500 Pro. Trident traditionally targeted the low-cost range of the market. So it is likely targeting the ~$50 segment while the other 2 cards are mid-range products.
How can you say that? Linux stared out as a tiny OS which only supported IDE hard drives. Now look at it. OSS projects can mature at a rapid pace, especially those which are fueled by many people. How many people work on IE? How many on Mozilla? Is there much of a difference? (I don't know)
A lot of people forgot that IE also started off as an also-ran (maybe they were too young and joined the internet too late to observe that). People at that time joked and ignored IE when comparing it to the then de facto standard Netscape. But then MS, thru innovations as well as dirty tactics while Netscape showed little improvement, the IE became the new king. I can't see why Mozilla could not repeat this history to dethrone IE.
Now you can cheat at your exam by storing hard to remember formula, historical events, famous quotes, etc, in the palm enabled watch. When no one is watching, you could browse the information at your own pace. When your teacher is walking nearby, press a couple of the button, it becomes an ordinary watch again. Also, use the IR to beam back and forth for networked cheating. (Assuming your next chair neighbour also has this watch) It is the student's ultimate learning tool:-)
Decisive in AWOL most of the day on 9/11 and letting New York mayor as the only major politcal figure to calm the whole nation? Decisive in first saying that striking Afghanistan would wipe out Bin Laden? Then when Bin Laden was nowhere to be seen, the military action was for wiping out Al Queda. Then when it was shown that the Al Queda network was still more or less intact, the action was just for disrupting the terrorist. Decisive when Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and India are more likely to use the nuclear weapons than Iraq, yet he wants to attack Iraq? Decisive when Enron problem had been known in Washington for weeks, yet he did nothing and letting thousands of people lost their pension saving?
I believe that most volunteer developers created something in the hope that someone will find it useful. So high market share = more people are using it should be their goal as well.
Correct me if I am worng. But I remembered that the 2-inch step was there last time when the German robot team tried to run the shaft. They almost got stuck as well. Won't you think they will prepare for it this time. Maybe they should re-watch the old footage first.
However, I think you are comparing apple to orange. Both Firewire and USB2 are primarily for external devices that can be easily hot plugged or unplugged. On the other hand, ATA133 are used mostly for internal devices. Yes, you could build removable drive bay to hot plug ATA133 harddrive, but it is generally not supported well outside server machine environment (not to mention that it is an expensive option). Firwire and USB2 is pretty fast and practical. It may not be as fast as internal solution, such as ATA133 or SCSI, but it serves its purpose well (i.e. inexpensive/exteranlportable solution).
How about "Lord of The Rings DVD, Now or Later?". OK, it is not actually put under the Ask Slashdot catergory. But if you are really a LOTR fan, you would buy both versions anyway. Why ask this lame question?
Who said I don't have a NVidia card? I have finally given up on ATI creating a reasonable good driver and recently acquired a GeForce 4 Ti4200 card for my newly built machine. Believe me, I had been owning only ATI cards (six all together) before this non-ati acquisition. But I am no longer able to take any more suffering from their inability to fix long outstanding driver issues.
The Flipper GPU chip was actually developed by ArtX and originally produced by NEC. ATI just acquired it thru taking over of ArtX. So the stability of the Gamecube has no direct relationship to other ATI products. BTW, I am using an ATI card, so I know how bad of its driver.
I have been using Mozilla to access the TD site since 0.9.7 (when Mozilla was stable enough to become my everyday browser). No problem whatsoever. I think the problem you have is particular to your setup.
The question is if the author of the article knew of the issues to implement a better binary encoding method, why didn't he do so? He even claimed that he had tried something like yEnc years ago, so he should be technical capable to come up with a better way. So I urge him: Stop whinning, create a better competing format instead. Even if he doesn't have enought time to commit on such project, he could just find some able bodies through internet to do actual work and act as an advisor or technical assistant to this project. yEnc is still in its infant stage, so it is still not too late to do something right.
I don't think email is a workable contract medium. Too trivial to alter.
I agree that email alone is probably too venerable to be used as a contract medium. However, if used with add-in that could create digital signature, such as PGP, it could be an acceptable form of contract.
But with AOL supposedly switches to Gecko engine for their next version of client, it will force web developers to think twice before locking themselves with IE specific features. They won't want to upset 30+ millions AOL users. This should help the Mozilla to gain back some momentum.
The article actually described installing Debian on an AlphaStation 250, which obviously uses an Alpha CPU, not DECstation which uses a MIPS CPU. Sometimes, I wonder whether the submitter or the moderator actually read the referred articale before they posted it.
The difference is with 'cat', the UNIX is actually performing the physical copying to the temp file, which then is piped to the next program. So it takes additional CPU and IO resource, especially for large files. In the case of OS390/JCL, the concatenation is logical. There is no physical copying. The system just treats them as if they are one big file. It saves alot of CPU and IO.
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If it were an terrorist act, either thru sabotage or concealed explosive, don't you think it would be more 'beneficial' to them to blow up the Shuttle at launch. There would have been more people watching it launched than landing. Also, it would be happened at a closer range and hence induced more demoralizing effect the terrorists wanted.
On the other hand, NASA lost the contact with the Shuttle almost precisely at the peak stress point. It most likely points to the structural failure direction.
Maybe the Russians did copy the the Shuttle technologies for their own version. However, they quickly realized that operating the space shuttle is highly expensive and required a lot of effort to maintain reliability. So they scraped it in favor of using the (relatively) cheaper Soyuz modules that had proven reliability record and payload capability.
C. It exhaust the heat onto those other cards.
I would rather it blows the hot air to the other PCI cards than to the CPU. Most modern CPUs are already hot enough by itself. So putting the GPU on the other side will essentially blow the hot air towards the CPU, which would make it hotter still.
GNU Pascal uses ISO Pascal syntax which is quite different than the Borland dialect. So convert the Turbo Power to GNU Pascal could be pretty involved. On the other hand, the Free Pascal has a Delphi compatible mode. So compile Turbo Power in Free Pascal should not be a big problem. The only question is how many of the components depends on VCL. The Free Pascal is still lacking anything equivalent to VCL.
I think the author actually wanted to say 'minefield'. Hey, this is Slashdot. So don't expect perfect grammar and spelling on every sentence.
Sounds like a good cause for a litigation lawsuit. You better saved your evidences. Where is the lawyer?
A typical letter-size paper is 8 x 11 inch. So it can contain only 88 KB per page. A bit of an improvement to the 20 KB of the original scheme but still not high enough for Terabyte of data. In addition, this data pattern probably requires compatible hardware/software to read it back. Considering it is non-open source, how do you know it is still available 10 years from now?
No, the XP4 T2 is a desktop chip. The article mentioned there will be a mobile variant XP4 T1 available soon. But I agree with you and others that it is unfair to compare it against Ti4200 and ATI Radeon 9500 Pro. Trident traditionally targeted the low-cost range of the market. So it is likely targeting the ~$50 segment while the other 2 cards are mid-range products.
How can you say that? Linux stared out as a tiny OS which only supported IDE hard drives. Now look at it. OSS projects can mature at a rapid pace, especially those which are fueled by many people. How many people work on IE? How many on Mozilla? Is there much of a difference? (I don't know)
A lot of people forgot that IE also started off as an also-ran (maybe they were too young and joined the internet too late to observe that). People at that time joked and ignored IE when comparing it to the then de facto standard Netscape. But then MS, thru innovations as well as dirty tactics while Netscape showed little improvement, the IE became the new king. I can't see why Mozilla could not repeat this history to dethrone IE.
Now you can cheat at your exam by storing hard to remember formula, historical events, famous quotes, etc, in the palm enabled watch. When no one is watching, you could browse the information at your own pace. When your teacher is walking nearby, press a couple of the button, it becomes an ordinary watch again. Also, use the IR to beam back and forth for networked cheating. (Assuming your next chair neighbour also has this watch) It is the student's ultimate learning tool :-)
Decisive in AWOL most of the day on 9/11 and letting New York mayor as the only major politcal figure to calm the whole nation?
Decisive in first saying that striking Afghanistan would wipe out Bin Laden? Then when Bin Laden was nowhere to be seen, the military action was for wiping out Al Queda. Then when it was shown that the Al Queda network was still more or less intact, the action was just for disrupting the terrorist.
Decisive when Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and India are more likely to use the nuclear weapons than Iraq, yet he wants to attack Iraq?
Decisive when Enron problem had been known in Washington for weeks, yet he did nothing and letting thousands of people lost their pension saving?
I believe that most volunteer developers created something in the hope that someone will find it useful. So high market share = more people are using it should be their goal as well.
Correct me if I am worng. But I remembered that the 2-inch step was there last time when the German robot team tried to run the shaft. They almost got stuck as well. Won't you think they will prepare for it this time. Maybe they should re-watch the old footage first.
However, I think you are comparing apple to orange. Both Firewire and USB2 are primarily for external devices that can be easily hot plugged or unplugged. On the other hand, ATA133 are used mostly for internal devices. Yes, you could build removable drive bay to hot plug ATA133 harddrive, but it is generally not supported well outside server machine environment (not to mention that it is an expensive option). Firwire and USB2 is pretty fast and practical. It may not be as fast as internal solution, such as ATA133 or SCSI, but it serves its purpose well (i.e. inexpensive /exteranlportable solution).
How about "Lord of The Rings DVD, Now or Later?". OK, it is not actually put under the Ask Slashdot catergory. But if you are really a LOTR fan, you would buy both versions anyway. Why ask this lame question?
Who said I don't have a NVidia card? I have finally given up on ATI creating a reasonable good driver and recently acquired a GeForce 4 Ti4200 card for my newly built machine. Believe me, I had been owning only ATI cards (six all together) before this non-ati acquisition. But I am no longer able to take any more suffering from their inability to fix long outstanding driver issues.
The Flipper GPU chip was actually developed by ArtX and originally produced by NEC. ATI just acquired it thru taking over of ArtX. So the stability of the Gamecube has no direct relationship to other ATI products. BTW, I am using an ATI card, so I know how bad of its driver.
I have been using Mozilla to access the TD site since 0.9.7 (when Mozilla was stable enough to become my everyday browser). No problem whatsoever. I think the problem you have is particular to your setup.
The question is if the author of the article knew of the issues to implement a better binary encoding method, why didn't he do so? He even claimed that he had tried something like yEnc years ago, so he should be technical capable to come up with a better way. So I urge him: Stop whinning, create a better competing format instead. Even if he doesn't have enought time to commit on such project, he could just find some able bodies through internet to do actual work and act as an advisor or technical assistant to this project. yEnc is still in its infant stage, so it is still not too late to do something right.
I don't think email is a workable contract medium. Too trivial to alter.
I agree that email alone is probably too venerable to be used as a contract medium. However, if used with add-in that could create digital signature, such as PGP, it could be an acceptable form of contract.
It works in Win32 as well. Well done.
But with AOL supposedly switches to Gecko engine for their next version of client, it will force web developers to think twice before locking themselves with IE specific features. They won't want to upset 30+ millions AOL users. This should help the Mozilla to gain back some momentum.
The article actually described installing Debian on an AlphaStation 250, which obviously uses an Alpha CPU, not DECstation which uses a MIPS CPU. Sometimes, I wonder whether the submitter or the moderator actually read the referred articale before they posted it.
The difference is with 'cat', the UNIX is actually performing the physical copying to the temp file, which then is piped to the next program. So it takes additional CPU and IO resource, especially for large files. In the case of OS390/JCL, the concatenation is logical. There is no physical copying. The system just treats them as if they are one big file. It saves alot of CPU and IO.
Another good feature is you could logically concatenate multiple (compatible) datasets as an input to one DDname:
//INFILE DD DSN=FILE1,...
// DD DSN=FILE2,...
// DD DSN=FILE3,...
The program would treat all three files as one file, as if they are concatenated together. I know of no other OS has this feature.