You might want to talk to an electrician who specializes in backup power systems. There are safety and electrical code issues on how circuits are switched from mains power to UPS/generator power and back again.
It's a real problem. I live in Maryland. It isn't as bad as it used to be because of population shifts, but for many years, Baltimore controlled the politics in Maryland. Whatever Baltimore wanted, Baltimore got, and fuck the rest of the state. Now Baltimore has to share some power with the Maryland counties that border Washington, D.C. Still, people who live in western Maryland, the eastern shore or other rural areas, are often ignored by the state legislature. I'm sure you can find similar situations in many other states.
It's a real problem. I live in Maryland. It isn't as bad as it used to be because of population shifts, but for many years, Baltimore controlled the politics in Maryland. Whatever Baltimore wanted, Baltimore got, and fuck the rest of the state. Now Baltimore has to share some power with the Maryland counties that border Washington, D.C. Still, people who live in western Maryland, the eastern shore or other rural areas, are often ignored by the state legislature. I'm sure you can find similar situations in many other states.
George Wallace got 46 electoral votes with 12.9% of the popular vote in 1968 because he had a lot of support in the deep south. So if you can build a regional base, you can get electoral votes.
There are some relatively simple things you can do with multiphase clock generators to solve clock distribution problems. You can have each circuit block tied to one of many outputs from the clock generator. You select the phase based on the propagation delay of the clock line and local timing requirements. It's a way to precompensate for propagation delay across the chip. It may not get you to 1 GHz, but it scales better than a single clock.
4. The Viet Cong were annihilated when they engaged US forces en masse. South Vietnam was captured and occupied by NVA regulars after the "Vietnamization" of the war.
I've used these machines in the past two elections. I didn't have any problems with them and I haven't heard any reports of problems with the machines.
I read a story about partisans in World War II who used a mixture of dried blood and cocaine to confuse the German's military dogs. They would dust an area that the Germans were likely to search with the mixture. This would overload the dog's nose, making him useless for hours.
I'm thinking more about small businesses that keep critical information on PCs, and larger businesses that have a lot of data on user PCs that isn't backed up. If one PC fails, there is usually some redundancy. The information can be recovered or reconstructed from another PC. If they all get wiped at the same time, the problems would be much more serious.
Then there is the problem of trying to reinstall all of the software on hundreds of millions of PCs. How many people know enough to do that, and have all of the original disks?
I'm waiting for the day when some clever hacker release a worm that takes advantage of a previously unknown hole in Windows and proceeds to trash every hard disk on every Windows box on the net.
How many people do you know that backup their PC on a regular basis, or at all?
Canada and Mexico will probably use ATSC. Japan has their own standard that they are developing. China may select a home-grown standard. It isn't as monolithic as you think. Many countries will stick with analog until there is a reason to switch to digital.
I doubt it. The people who get locked up for that are the nut cases that intentionally interfere with police or aeronautical communications. The FCC announces these things in press releases.
As someone who has an HF radio in a populated area, even with the existing standards, there is a tremendous amount of RF pollution from my neighbors' electrical and electronic widgets. And you want to make it worse? It might work if your equipment was designed with properly shielded cases, shielded cables and bypass capacitors on external connectors, but that costs money that many manufacturers will only spend if they have a gun to their head.
IIRC, the FCC had to threaten the cable operators with "unfortunate consequences" if they didn't fix their leaky systems. My local cable company started using quad-shielded coax and quality connectors instead of the cheap crap that they used to use. They also replaced a lot of their distribution plant with new equipment.
That depends on your maintenance and logistics policies. If it's a critical piece of equipment, you stock spares for all of the parts that are likely to fail. If it isn't critical, and the part can be ordered from the vendor, you don't stock the part, as long as you're willing to accept the down time caused by having to wait for a replacement part to arrive.
This stuff becomes important for anyone who has to operate and maintain large amounts of computers or other equipment. You have to look at failure rates, redundancy of equipment, costs of down time, availability of parts, order lead times, costs and size of spare parts inventory.
For someone who designs the equipment, say a server, they have a target MTBF for the server. To meet that target, they need reliability data for all of the components that they use in their design. If the MTBF on a part is too low, they may have to select a better quality part or add redundancy to the design.
On 1996-02-15, a failed launch dropped a Long March 3B rocket on villages surrounding the Xichang space center. Unofficial reports put the damage and death toll much higher than figures (6 dead, 57 injured) reported by government news agencies. The concept of range safety seems to have been foreign to the Chinese space agency.
I have a similar question myself. For text pattern matching, we don't need floating point ops IMO. For decryption, we don't need it either. So?
Cryptanalysis is very dependent on statistics, lots of statistics. That produces a need for fast floating point arithmetic.
If you look at the biographies of some of the NSA's past cryptanalysts, you can get some hints about the kinds of mathematics that they specialized in.
It gets a little more interesting if you have a football field size room full of these gadgets. Years ago, someone researched the number of incoming telephone lines to Fort Meade, it was huge.
Don't blame the fairness doctrine for your alleged "right-wing hatefest". Elimination of the doctrine allowed people to engage in political speech on the radio without fear that someone would demand "equal time" for a dissenting viewpoint. This made it commercially viable. Why is Rush Limbaugh on a zillion stations? It isn't because he is a right-wing zealot, it's because he's entertaining to a large group of listeners and delivers an audience to advertisers. The average owner of a radio station would put Hillary Clinton on for four hours a day if she could deliver an audience. It's all about the ratings and dollars.
What really makes me angry is the way that they parrot the statistics given to them by some interest group without asking for a cite or doing any investigation. This results in totally bogus statistics being repeated by news "personalities" as facts.
That depends on the design of the memory controller and the bandwidth used by all the various bus masters.
I helped design/spec a very I/O intensive 486 system that used a bus-mastering SCSI controller and SCSI hard disks and CD-ROMs. It smoothly handled high rates of data throughput while simultaneously processing the data and supporting a responsive user interface.
They make such things for mainframes, but they cost a hell of a lot more than $200. They have an I/O controller, a bunch of DRAM, a battery/UPS, and a hard drive that can store the contents of the DRAM in case of shutdown or power failure.
In the old days, they used head-per-track drums and disks.
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You might want to talk to an electrician who specializes in backup power systems. There are safety and electrical code issues on how circuits are switched from mains power to UPS/generator power and back again.
It's a real problem. I live in Maryland. It isn't as bad as it used to be because of population shifts, but for many years, Baltimore controlled the politics in Maryland. Whatever Baltimore wanted, Baltimore got, and fuck the rest of the state. Now Baltimore has to share some power with the Maryland counties that border Washington, D.C. Still, people who live in western Maryland, the eastern shore or other rural areas, are often ignored by the state legislature. I'm sure you can find similar situations in many other states.
It's a real problem. I live in Maryland. It isn't as bad as it used to be because of population shifts, but for many years, Baltimore controlled the politics in Maryland. Whatever Baltimore wanted, Baltimore got, and fuck the rest of the state. Now Baltimore has to share some power with the Maryland counties that border Washington, D.C. Still, people who live in western Maryland, the eastern shore or other rural areas, are often ignored by the state legislature. I'm sure you can find similar situations in many other states.
George Wallace got 46 electoral votes with 12.9% of the popular vote in 1968 because he had a lot of support in the deep south. So if you can build a regional base, you can get electoral votes.
There are some relatively simple things you can do with multiphase clock generators to solve clock distribution problems. You can have each circuit block tied to one of many outputs from the clock generator. You select the phase based on the propagation delay of the clock line and local timing requirements. It's a way to precompensate for propagation delay across the chip. It may not get you to 1 GHz, but it scales better than a single clock.
4. The Viet Cong were annihilated when they engaged US forces en masse. South Vietnam was captured and occupied by NVA regulars after the "Vietnamization" of the war.
I've used these machines in the past two elections. I didn't have any problems with them and I haven't heard any reports of problems with the machines.
The floggings will continue until morale improves.
I read a story about partisans in World War II who used a mixture of dried blood and cocaine to confuse the German's military dogs. They would dust an area that the Germans were likely to search with the mixture. This would overload the dog's nose, making him useless for hours.
Then there is the problem of trying to reinstall all of the software on hundreds of millions of PCs. How many people know enough to do that, and have all of the original disks?
How many people do you know that backup their PC on a regular basis, or at all?
If it has to be connected to the net, any sensitive information should be encrypted.
Canada and Mexico will probably use ATSC. Japan has their own standard that they are developing. China may select a home-grown standard. It isn't as monolithic as you think. Many countries will stick with analog until there is a reason to switch to digital.
I doubt it. The people who get locked up for that are the nut cases that intentionally interfere with police or aeronautical communications. The FCC announces these things in press releases.
As someone who has an HF radio in a populated area, even with the existing standards, there is a tremendous amount of RF pollution from my neighbors' electrical and electronic widgets. And you want to make it worse? It might work if your equipment was designed with properly shielded cases, shielded cables and bypass capacitors on external connectors, but that costs money that many manufacturers will only spend if they have a gun to their head.
IIRC, the FCC had to threaten the cable operators with "unfortunate consequences" if they didn't fix their leaky systems. My local cable company started using quad-shielded coax and quality connectors instead of the cheap crap that they used to use. They also replaced a lot of their distribution plant with new equipment.
This stuff becomes important for anyone who has to operate and maintain large amounts of computers or other equipment. You have to look at failure rates, redundancy of equipment, costs of down time, availability of parts, order lead times, costs and size of spare parts inventory.
For someone who designs the equipment, say a server, they have a target MTBF for the server. To meet that target, they need reliability data for all of the components that they use in their design. If the MTBF on a part is too low, they may have to select a better quality part or add redundancy to the design.
On 1996-02-15, a failed launch dropped a Long March 3B rocket on villages surrounding the Xichang space center. Unofficial reports put the damage and death toll much higher than figures (6 dead, 57 injured) reported by government news agencies. The concept of range safety seems to have been foreign to the Chinese space agency.
Cryptanalysis is very dependent on statistics, lots of statistics. That produces a need for fast floating point arithmetic.
If you look at the biographies of some of the NSA's past cryptanalysts, you can get some hints about the kinds of mathematics that they specialized in.
It gets a little more interesting if you have a football field size room full of these gadgets. Years ago, someone researched the number of incoming telephone lines to Fort Meade, it was huge.
Don't blame the fairness doctrine for your alleged "right-wing hatefest". Elimination of the doctrine allowed people to engage in political speech on the radio without fear that someone would demand "equal time" for a dissenting viewpoint. This made it commercially viable. Why is Rush Limbaugh on a zillion stations? It isn't because he is a right-wing zealot, it's because he's entertaining to a large group of listeners and delivers an audience to advertisers. The average owner of a radio station would put Hillary Clinton on for four hours a day if she could deliver an audience. It's all about the ratings and dollars.
What really makes me angry is the way that they parrot the statistics given to them by some interest group without asking for a cite or doing any investigation. This results in totally bogus statistics being repeated by news "personalities" as facts.
I helped design/spec a very I/O intensive 486 system that used a bus-mastering SCSI controller and SCSI hard disks and CD-ROMs. It smoothly handled high rates of data throughput while simultaneously processing the data and supporting a responsive user interface.
Recoverable and unrecoverable error rates are a separate set of numbers from the MTBF.
In the old days, they used head-per-track drums and disks.