Ethanol was used as a torpedo fuel during World War II. This lead to the predictable result, large numbers of supply requisitions for torpedo fuel. The fuel kept leaking out of those damn torpedoes:-).
Why on Earth would anyone want to replace COBOL with C++ for business applications? COBOL may have its warts, but it was designed for business applications, unlike C++, which was designed to be a Swiss Army Chainsaw.
The MTBF tells you the rate at which the drives fail over their service life, typically five years. If possible, look at the vendor's documentation on how they compute their MTBF numbers.
That hasn't been true for a long time. The last SCSI drive that I saw with a bridge board was a 65MB Maxtor SCSI drive. SCSI drives are usually built with better/faster mechanisms than IDE drives. It isn't a technical issue, it's a different market segment.
Computerworld and Datamation are two commercial publications that have been around for a very long time. Their primary emphasis was on large IBM systems (360/370 series), which was the majority of the computer market for many years..
3 dB of gain doubles the ERP. 10 dB of gain increases the ERP by ten times. A high-gain antenna is. by definition, directional. Are you going to require the user to aim the antenna at the nearest access point? That does not seem practical for mobile computing devices.
A separate account may not protect you from unauthorized withdrawals. I had an experience with a large bank (Bank of America) where they took a substantial amount of money from my savings account to cover a check that was much larger than the balance in my checking account. The problem was caused by a data entry operator at another bank who misencoded the amount of the check by shifting the decimal point to the right, transforming a $500 check into a $5000 check. It took several months to get this straightened out.
The ACLU opens themselves to criticism by conservatives by being inconsistent in their approach to the constitution and bill of rights. They vigorously defend the "right to abortion", which isn't present in the plain reading of the text, and ignore the 2nd amendment, which even many liberal legal scholars believe is an individual right. I'm a long-time ACLU member and I know that the organization isn't always consistent in its approach to civil liberties. When the political agendas of some members collide with the constitution, the constitution sometimes loses. These are often the same people who vigorously support free speech rights for everyone except klansmen, evangelical Christians, and pro-lifers.
From what I remember about the early speach synthesis systems, they cheated. The input to the synthesis module was a stream of phonemes, not normal text. The programmer had to translate the text into phonemes.
Chlorine is an element. How is radiation going to destroy it?
My understanding is that the CFC molecules are broken up by solar radiation. The free chlorine then acts as a catalyst for the decomposition of ozone molecules.
You have an obligation to take reasonable precautions to protect the data on your computer. That means making backups of any valuable data. Are you going to sue Western Digital if your hard drive fails? What if it gets fried by a lightning strike? Even if Apple was found to be grossly negligent, they shouldn't be held responsible for data that was lost due to the negligence of the computer's owner.
HP calculator development group was at Corvallis. I believe they developed everything from the HP-35 to the HP-48GX. It was shut down after the HP-48GX. A new calculator operation was started in Singapore, it didn't last very long. Later, HP started a new calculator operation in Australia. That is the group that developed the HP-49 and is now being disbanded.
HP is going to hell in a handbasket. They have sold or spun off all of the divisions that made HP's reputation in the first place.
I think we need a new power standard for small electronic devices. The voltage needs to be low enough to avoid safety problems. Auomobiles will be moving to 42V DC electrical systems, that might be a good choice. There also needs to be a standard connector or family of connectors.
My guess is that the kinetic energy of the asteroid was converted to thermal and blast energy when it hit the dense part of the atmosphere. A nuclear weapon produces most of its effects by emitting soft x-rays (black body radiation) that heat the air around the device to extremely high temperatures.
How about the UCSD p-System? It ran on the Apple II, IBM PC and directly on a mutant version of the LSI-11, among others. Most of the system was written in Pascal, compiled into p-code, and interpreted by a p-machine. That work was done over twenty years ago.
One solution for this is to use subway turnstiles at the entrance. They look like rotating doors except they have horizontal bars projecting out from the center shaft instead of door frames. The keycard enables it to rotate far enough to let one person into the building.
Now you know why OEM parts are cheaper than regular parts. If you wanted a retail warranty, you should have been more careful in researching your purchase. Why should IBM honor a warranty that nobody paid for? Dell received a substantial price break because they relieved IBM of the costs of warranty claims by agreeing to handle it themselves, out of their own pocket.
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Ethanol was used as a torpedo fuel during World War II. This lead to the predictable result, large numbers of supply requisitions for torpedo fuel. The fuel kept leaking out of those damn torpedoes :-).
Just do:
cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile; portupgrade -a
Why on Earth would anyone want to replace COBOL with C++ for business applications? COBOL may have its warts, but it was designed for business applications, unlike C++, which was designed to be a Swiss Army Chainsaw.
The MTBF tells you the rate at which the drives fail over their service life, typically five years. If possible, look at the vendor's documentation on how they compute their MTBF numbers.
That hasn't been true for a long time. The last SCSI drive that I saw with a bridge board was a 65MB Maxtor SCSI drive. SCSI drives are usually built with better/faster mechanisms than IDE drives. It isn't a technical issue, it's a different market segment.
Computerworld and Datamation are two commercial publications that have been around for a very long time. Their primary emphasis was on large IBM systems (360/370 series), which was the majority of the computer market for many years..
3 dB of gain doubles the ERP. 10 dB of gain increases the ERP by ten times. A high-gain antenna is. by definition, directional. Are you going to require the user to aim the antenna at the nearest access point? That does not seem practical for mobile computing devices.
The conservative approach to communications security is to use end-to-end and link encryption.
A separate account may not protect you from unauthorized withdrawals. I had an experience with a large bank (Bank of America) where they took a substantial amount of money from my savings account to cover a check that was much larger than the balance in my checking account. The problem was caused by a data entry operator at another bank who misencoded the amount of the check by shifting the decimal point to the right, transforming a $500 check into a $5000 check. It took several months to get this straightened out.
The ACLU opens themselves to criticism by conservatives by being inconsistent in their approach to the constitution and bill of rights. They vigorously defend the "right to abortion", which isn't present in the plain reading of the text, and ignore the 2nd amendment, which even many liberal legal scholars believe is an individual right. I'm a long-time ACLU member and I know that the organization isn't always consistent in its approach to civil liberties. When the political agendas of some members collide with the constitution, the constitution sometimes loses. These are often the same people who vigorously support free speech rights for everyone except klansmen, evangelical Christians, and pro-lifers.
From what I remember about the early speach synthesis systems, they cheated. The input to the synthesis module was a stream of phonemes, not normal text. The programmer had to translate the text into phonemes.
My understanding is that the CFC molecules are broken up by solar radiation. The free chlorine then acts as a catalyst for the decomposition of ozone molecules.
You have an obligation to take reasonable precautions to protect the data on your computer. That means making backups of any valuable data. Are you going to sue Western Digital if your hard drive fails? What if it gets fried by a lightning strike? Even if Apple was found to be grossly negligent, they shouldn't be held responsible for data that was lost due to the negligence of the computer's owner.
HP is going to hell in a handbasket. They have sold or spun off all of the divisions that made HP's reputation in the first place.
The new stuff is targetted at NT and Linux.
I think we need a new power standard for small electronic devices. The voltage needs to be low enough to avoid safety problems. Auomobiles will be moving to 42V DC electrical systems, that might be a good choice. There also needs to be a standard connector or family of connectors.
My guess is that the kinetic energy of the asteroid was converted to thermal and blast energy when it hit the dense part of the atmosphere. A nuclear weapon produces most of its effects by emitting soft x-rays (black body radiation) that heat the air around the device to extremely high temperatures.
How about the UCSD p-System? It ran on the Apple II, IBM PC and directly on a mutant version of the LSI-11, among others. Most of the system was written in Pascal, compiled into p-code, and interpreted by a p-machine. That work was done over twenty years ago.
Why not just have a non-profit organization that issues certificates to anyone that wants one for a nominal fee?
Yeah, yeah, but how many frames-per-second does she get in Quake?
One solution for this is to use subway turnstiles at the entrance. They look like rotating doors except they have horizontal bars projecting out from the center shaft instead of door frames. The keycard enables it to rotate far enough to let one person into the building.
Only if it is written by civil servants. Most NASA software is written by contractors.
See this page for some factual information on the Shuttle's computer systems.
Now you know why OEM parts are cheaper than regular parts. If you wanted a retail warranty, you should have been more careful in researching your purchase. Why should IBM honor a warranty that nobody paid for? Dell received a substantial price break because they relieved IBM of the costs of warranty claims by agreeing to handle it themselves, out of their own pocket.
I was thinking more along the lines of "Trust me, I know what I'm doing."