An old book on the history of the steel industry mentioned that the high quality of Swedish steel was primarily due to the high quality of their iron ore. It had unusually low amounts of the elements that degrade the quality of the steel.
In other words, isn't the amount of memory I have more important than how fast it is?
No. If your software's working set is smaller than the amount of physical memory, you are better off with the faster memory. You can create software workloads that make either configuration look better.
I hear that stuff from people who make films. Visible grain? 24 fps? Those are features, part of the "film look". So what if we can't pan the camera without it looking like crap.
NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) database has a large number of reported incidents where cellular telephones, and other electronic devices, have caused interference with aircraft communications and navigation equipment.
There are many users of the RF spectrum that don't fall into the category of "evil corporation". As an amateur radio licensee, I'm very concerned that widespread and unregulated use of UWB technology would further pollute the amateur radio bands with noise and interference. Cheaply made consumer electronics equipment, light dimmers, poorly maintained power lines and other "unintentional radiators" are a major source of interference in many places. That includes all of you people who run your computer with the case open.
Plastic explosive, like C4 or Semtex, needs a blasting cap to set it off. The blasting cap can be triggered by a variety of methods, heat, shock or electricity. You can use plastic explosives as fuel for a fire, such as heating meals while out on patrol. The problem is that heating the explosive makes it more sensitive to shock.
Sadly, reliability doesn't sell. The average computer user wants fast and cheap. Even on slashdot, you see endless dicksize wars over who has the most 'leet, overclocked system running last night's kernel release on the latest CPU, chipset and motherboard. It doesn't have to work reliably if it looks cool doing it.
I used to work with some computers that had been designed for the U.S. Navy. One neat feature was a front panel switch labelled "Battle Short". Supposedly this disabled all of the curcuit breakers, for situations where a working fire control computer was more important than some fried wiring.
There are electrically conductive, transparent coatings that can be applied to the plastic/glass.
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The people who get their work done by running their applications on that "legacy shit" may have other ideas. The computer center is not your personal toy box.
It's already a common crime in many places. The criminal forces the victim to drive to the nearest ATM and withdraw cash, or he hangs around an ATM machine, waiting for someone to use it.
It costs money, lots of money, to test an operating system for compatibility with a CPU. Why bother testing fringe CPUs when 99.9% of your customers are running on Intel or AMD. Many companies don't officially support their software on AMD systems. It will probably work but it wasn't tested on that platform.
Someone could buy a share of Ford stock and get a shareholder resolution put on the proxy statement. I see these every year from people who are promoting causes such as disarmament and corporate democracy.
There have a number of well publicized cases where cobalt-60 radiation sources ended up in third world garbage dumps, injuring people who didn't know that the material was radioactive.
Steel mills that use scrap metal now have radiation detectors to prevent the accidental inclusion of radioactive scrap in their steel.
There is a big difference between a switching power supply designed by real engineers, with UL/CSA/TUV review and approval, and some random electronics project. Isolation transformers are a must for any electronic device that someone is going to poke around in with their bare hands.
While I agree with you about the need for a transformer for safety reasons, the mains frequency is useful for a clock. I built a Heathkit digital clock, back when digital clocks were rare items, that used the mains frequency as the input to the logic circuits. It never drifted more than a few seconds from the time signals broadcast by WWV. The power grid operators would adjust the frequency of the grid to keep the long term average frequency at exactly 60 Hz. If the frequency dropped during the day, due to high load, they would run it a bit fast at night to compensate.
Speech calling for the violent overthrow of the government of the United States is in a gray area. The current Supreme Court doctrine (Brandenburg v. Ohio) appears to be that it is protected speech as long as it not "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action." So you can speak in an abstract way about "the revolution", just avoid saying that it is scheduled for Monday at City Hall.
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An old book on the history of the steel industry mentioned that the high quality of Swedish steel was primarily due to the high quality of their iron ore. It had unusually low amounts of the elements that degrade the quality of the steel.
No. If your software's working set is smaller than the amount of physical memory, you are better off with the faster memory. You can create software workloads that make either configuration look better.
I hear that stuff from people who make films. Visible grain? 24 fps? Those are features, part of the "film look". So what if we can't pan the camera without it looking like crap.
NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) database has a large number of reported incidents where cellular telephones, and other electronic devices, have caused interference with aircraft communications and navigation equipment.
There are many users of the RF spectrum that don't fall into the category of "evil corporation". As an amateur radio licensee, I'm very concerned that widespread and unregulated use of UWB technology would further pollute the amateur radio bands with noise and interference. Cheaply made consumer electronics equipment, light dimmers, poorly maintained power lines and other "unintentional radiators" are a major source of interference in many places. That includes all of you people who run your computer with the case open.
Plastic explosive, like C4 or Semtex, needs a blasting cap to set it off. The blasting cap can be triggered by a variety of methods, heat, shock or electricity. You can use plastic explosives as fuel for a fire, such as heating meals while out on patrol. The problem is that heating the explosive makes it more sensitive to shock.
Transparent caching proxies aren't.
Sadly, reliability doesn't sell. The average computer user wants fast and cheap. Even on slashdot, you see endless dicksize wars over who has the most 'leet, overclocked system running last night's kernel release on the latest CPU, chipset and motherboard. It doesn't have to work reliably if it looks cool doing it.
Don't feel bad, that book is still sitting on my bookshelf. It was the first computer programming book that I bought.
I used to work with some computers that had been designed for the U.S. Navy. One neat feature was a front panel switch labelled "Battle Short". Supposedly this disabled all of the curcuit breakers, for situations where a working fire control computer was more important than some fried wiring.
There are electrically conductive, transparent coatings that can be applied to the plastic/glass.
The people who get their work done by running their applications on that "legacy shit" may have other ideas. The computer center is not your personal toy box.
It's already a common crime in many places. The criminal forces the victim to drive to the nearest ATM and withdraw cash, or he hangs around an ATM machine, waiting for someone to use it.
It costs money, lots of money, to test an operating system for compatibility with a CPU. Why bother testing fringe CPUs when 99.9% of your customers are running on Intel or AMD. Many companies don't officially support their software on AMD systems. It will probably work but it wasn't tested on that platform.
There is more to the cost than the power bill. All of those watts add to the heat load that the building's air conditioning system must support.
Someone could buy a share of Ford stock and get a shareholder resolution put on the proxy statement. I see these every year from people who are promoting causes such as disarmament and corporate democracy.
Those are safety certifications, not reliability or performance certifications.
Steel mills that use scrap metal now have radiation detectors to prevent the accidental inclusion of radioactive scrap in their steel.
There is a big difference between a switching power supply designed by real engineers, with UL/CSA/TUV review and approval, and some random electronics project. Isolation transformers are a must for any electronic device that someone is going to poke around in with their bare hands.
While I agree with you about the need for a transformer for safety reasons, the mains frequency is useful for a clock. I built a Heathkit digital clock, back when digital clocks were rare items, that used the mains frequency as the input to the logic circuits. It never drifted more than a few seconds from the time signals broadcast by WWV. The power grid operators would adjust the frequency of the grid to keep the long term average frequency at exactly 60 Hz. If the frequency dropped during the day, due to high load, they would run it a bit fast at night to compensate.
Other than as a launch services customer, NASA has almost no financial involvement with current ELVs.
64 QAM and 256 QAM are the standard modulation schemes for digital cable and HDTV over cable in the USA.
Speech calling for the violent overthrow of the government of the United States is in a gray area. The current Supreme Court doctrine (Brandenburg v. Ohio) appears to be that it is protected speech as long as it not "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action." So you can speak in an abstract way about "the revolution", just avoid saying that it is scheduled for Monday at City Hall.
Take the hook out of your mouth before you speak.
YHBT. Idiot.