If you get arrested for molesting baby penguins, and I report that fact in my newspaper, you don't have a basis for a libel suit, even if the court finds you not guilty at trial.
When choosing a standard, don't forget to check how the format deals with large files and large archives. I've run into numerous problems with software that can't deal with anything larger than 2 GB, either for individual files or total archive size.
When a local store is screwed up, it is often because of corporate policy and procedures. Headquarters tells them who to hire, what to sell, how to sell it, how to service the product and how to deal with complaints.
Oh, and while on the subject, A company whose name sounds suspiciously like "Sally Total Hipness" who's been PIMPSLAPPED by the SEC for multiple violations of law (bait and switch etc) have this neat trick in which they portray a "membership" as a contract but in actual fact it's a loan, and as such you're on the hook to repay it completely and can never get out of it.
They've been pulling scams on their customers for over 30 years. Every so often they get sued, sign a consent agreement, and promise to be good. Then they go off and invent another way to rip off their customers.
I think you need institutional safeguards to insulate the scientists from the politicians. The problem is that when there is a lot of money involved, politicians are going to want to exercise control, oversight if you are being generous, over that money. That was the problem that I saw at NASA, where the executive branch has a great deal of control over what gets funded and what doesn't. Some scientists "jump on the first available bandwagon" to improve the chances of getting funding for their research, and having a job. Others keep their mouth shut and avoid doing research that might antagonize the people that control their funding.
I'm somewhat skeptical about global warming, but I would like to see comprehensive research done on the issue, without scientists having to fear for their jobs and funding if their research produces the "wrong" results.
Gore was also widely known to be unhappy with government funded scientific research that contradicted or challenged his environmental beliefs. Other politicians have their own blind spots.
Federal spending, and especially federal discretionary spending, is an artificial number. It's dependent on how government spending is divided among federal, state, and local governments, plus what spending is considered "off budget".
It's an established means of comparing military spending among countries. What percentage of the country's "wealth" does it spend on the military? It's like asking what percentage of the family budget is spent on housing.
That doesn't work when the audience for the journal is a few thousand people, or even less. I'm a member of ACM's SIGCOMM (Special Interest Group on Data Communications), which is one of the more popular SIGs and certainly has a broad area of coverage. Membership was "over 4000" at last count.
I was wondering about that. There was a similar recall for certain HP printers. HP sent me a new power cord, and it was a normal power cord. It didn't have the mysterious circuit protector that was included on the replacement power cord that Microsoft sent me for my xbox.
Many rocks have small amounts of uranium and thorium. Then there are decay products like radon. Bananas have a noticeable amount of radiation from radioactive potassium isotopes.
Some of this is accidental, like fuel tanks rupturing on expended rocket stages due to leftover propellants. There have been design and procedural changes that try to minimize the chances of this happening.
Compare the output spectrum of the two types of bulbs. Incandescent bulbs produce an even distribution of energy across the visible light range. Fluorescent bulbs produce an output spectrum that is a few peaks and mostly valleys, due to the way fluorescent bulbs work. If it was audio, an incandescent would produce white noise and a fluorescent would sound like a bagpipe. Colors will never look quite right under fluorescent lighting.
Get over it. The Apollo era NASA had a lot more money and people. They could afford to do things the right way, with multiple backup systems and extensive testing and QA. They still made mistakes, just not as many. You want cheap space exploration? You've got cheap space exploration. Don't bitch that they didn't deliver a Ferrari when you only paid for a Chevy.
Identical parts are not exact duplicates. Go to Radio Shack and buy some resistors, all marked for the same value. Take them home and measure their actual values with a multi-meter. You will find that the measured values are scattered over a range that is centered on the marked value of the resistors. That's why each resistor has a tolerance specification. For example, a resistor may be marked 47 ohms, plus or minus 5%. The value of the resistor is guaranteed to lie within that range. It isn't guaranteed to be 47 ohms. The same thing applies to capacitors, transistors, and other parts. Circuits built from these parts inherit some of the variability of their component parts.
Pascal forced programmers to think before they started to write code, a habit that was odious and foreign to legions of brain-damaged BASIC and FORTRAN programmers. Microsoft BASIC was a poor excuse for a programming language. It made FORTRAN-IV look good, which is quite a feat.
PC-DOS 1.0 was cheap, $60 IIRC. CP/M-86 was more than $250. The UCSD p-System was something like $500.
OEM versions of CP/M-80 were dirt cheap. I never understood why CP/M-86 was so much more expensive.
I really learned to hate Microsoft when the IBM PC was introduced. PC-DOS was flakey. MASM and Microsoft Pascal were abominations. Our group ditched Microsoft and switched to the UCSD p-System.
The best access security that I've seen implemented was physical. An armed guard with a.45 pistol and an access control list. You presented yourself with a photo ID, which was checked against the access control list and your face. If you tried to sneak past the guard, he was authorized and expected to shoot you.
Are your friends too lazy to use google to search for vendors?
I've bought them from http://memorysuppliers.com in the past. They're available. They work. You might not like the price when compared to more mainstream products, but those are the breaks.
I've never heard anyone claim that Paterson lifted any code from CP/M, just that he wrote a clone of CP/M, instead of designing his own operating system. It was obvious that much of the design of QDOS was done by reading the documentation for CP/M. There's nothing illegal about that. Many people did the same thing to UNIX.
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If you get arrested for molesting baby penguins, and I report that fact in my newspaper, you don't have a basis for a libel suit, even if the court finds you not guilty at trial.
When choosing a standard, don't forget to check how the format deals with large files and large archives. I've run into numerous problems with software that can't deal with anything larger than 2 GB, either for individual files or total archive size.
When a local store is screwed up, it is often because of corporate policy and procedures. Headquarters tells them who to hire, what to sell, how to sell it, how to service the product and how to deal with complaints.
They've been pulling scams on their customers for over 30 years. Every so often they get sued, sign a consent agreement, and promise to be good. Then they go off and invent another way to rip off their customers.
I'm somewhat skeptical about global warming, but I would like to see comprehensive research done on the issue, without scientists having to fear for their jobs and funding if their research produces the "wrong" results.
Gore was also widely known to be unhappy with government funded scientific research that contradicted or challenged his environmental beliefs. Other politicians have their own blind spots.
Federal spending, and especially federal discretionary spending, is an artificial number. It's dependent on how government spending is divided among federal, state, and local governments, plus what spending is considered "off budget".
It's an established means of comparing military spending among countries. What percentage of the country's "wealth" does it spend on the military? It's like asking what percentage of the family budget is spent on housing.
That doesn't work when the audience for the journal is a few thousand people, or even less. I'm a member of ACM's SIGCOMM (Special Interest Group on Data Communications), which is one of the more popular SIGs and certainly has a broad area of coverage. Membership was "over 4000" at last count.
Would you prefer that we called them disaffected individuals with poor impulse control?
I was wondering about that. There was a similar recall for certain HP printers. HP sent me a new power cord, and it was a normal power cord. It didn't have the mysterious circuit protector that was included on the replacement power cord that Microsoft sent me for my xbox.
We just need to breed some tougher strains of rats. :-)
Many rocks have small amounts of uranium and thorium. Then there are decay products like radon. Bananas have a noticeable amount of radiation from radioactive potassium isotopes.
Some of this is accidental, like fuel tanks rupturing on expended rocket stages due to leftover propellants. There have been design and procedural changes that try to minimize the chances of this happening.
Some things can be done in a garage. But there are many, many things that require a real R&D lab.
Compare the output spectrum of the two types of bulbs. Incandescent bulbs produce an even distribution of energy across the visible light range. Fluorescent bulbs produce an output spectrum that is a few peaks and mostly valleys, due to the way fluorescent bulbs work. If it was audio, an incandescent would produce white noise and a fluorescent would sound like a bagpipe. Colors will never look quite right under fluorescent lighting.
Get over it. The Apollo era NASA had a lot more money and people. They could afford to do things the right way, with multiple backup systems and extensive testing and QA. They still made mistakes, just not as many. You want cheap space exploration? You've got cheap space exploration. Don't bitch that they didn't deliver a Ferrari when you only paid for a Chevy.
Identical parts are not exact duplicates. Go to Radio Shack and buy some resistors, all marked for the same value. Take them home and measure their actual values with a multi-meter. You will find that the measured values are scattered over a range that is centered on the marked value of the resistors. That's why each resistor has a tolerance specification. For example, a resistor may be marked 47 ohms, plus or minus 5%. The value of the resistor is guaranteed to lie within that range. It isn't guaranteed to be 47 ohms. The same thing applies to capacitors, transistors, and other parts. Circuits built from these parts inherit some of the variability of their component parts.
I would try the Financial Crimes Division of the U.S. Secret Service. They are the ones who handle Nigerian advance fee fraud.
Pascal forced programmers to think before they started to write code, a habit that was odious and foreign to legions of brain-damaged BASIC and FORTRAN programmers. Microsoft BASIC was a poor excuse for a programming language. It made FORTRAN-IV look good, which is quite a feat.
OEM versions of CP/M-80 were dirt cheap. I never understood why CP/M-86 was so much more expensive.
I really learned to hate Microsoft when the IBM PC was introduced. PC-DOS was flakey. MASM and Microsoft Pascal were abominations. Our group ditched Microsoft and switched to the UCSD p-System.
The best access security that I've seen implemented was physical. An armed guard with a .45 pistol and an access control list. You presented yourself with a photo ID, which was checked against the access control list and your face. If you tried to sneak past the guard, he was authorized and expected to shoot you.
I've bought them from http://memorysuppliers.com in the past. They're available. They work. You might not like the price when compared to more mainstream products, but those are the breaks.
I've never heard anyone claim that Paterson lifted any code from CP/M, just that he wrote a clone of CP/M, instead of designing his own operating system. It was obvious that much of the design of QDOS was done by reading the documentation for CP/M. There's nothing illegal about that. Many people did the same thing to UNIX.
An infamous case that my parents told me about was that of Leopold and Loeb. Some people are just evil.