The problem isn't the demand for cheap gas or people not using public transportation, it is the lack of internationally enforced standards for maritime safety. A ship can be registered in Liberia or other countries with low standards. A large number of ships are lost every year, 96 ships over 500 tons in 1998 alone. If these were airplanes falling out of the sky, the public would demand action. Too many ship owners cut corners on safety, crew training and quality, and maintenance. The public doesn't care, unless it involves the death of passengers or cute animals.
I think people can legitimately differ on areas of moral controversy like this. In my world of node-states, abortion is practiced in 49% of them, and against the law in the other 51%.
OK, my node-state has decided to bring back the institution of slavery. Anyone can sell themself, or their children, into slavery. The majority of the node-state's citizens have decided that this is a good idea. Any outsider who objects is a cultural imperialist.
As of this moment, senators and such make vital decisions based on e-mail.
My congressman doesn't have an email address. Even for those who do have email addresses, they seem to give more consideration to paper mail, esp. hand-written paper mail.
OS/2 supports metadata in the form of extended attributes. NT tried to get rid of extended attributes but added stream support to files in the NTFS file system, although I'm not aware of any programs or operating system functions that use them.
OS/2 solved the problem of copying a file with metadata by providing an API function (DosCopy) to copy files.
Why should he write his application for Cocoa? Mac OS X hasn't been released yet and it will be quite a while before it becomes the dominant OS on the Mac. If he writes it for Carbon, it will work on current and future Mac systems.
The DRAM market seems to alternate between drought and glut. Intel got their start making DRAMs, with the i1103 DRAM, a 1024 bit chip which helped kill magnetic core memory.
I feel that open Source can be trusted, because we have the opportunity to check the code.
Check the code against what? Besides looking for obvious bugs, how do you verify that the code meets the requirements if they have never been written down?
OK, I demand that you pay me $50 or stop breathing my air. With every breath you take, you inhale air molecules that have been in my lungs, making them my private property.
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The forces of darkness (MPAA members and the TV/Cable networks) do not want you to have control over the box. They want to collect fees for the use of their content, add copy protection and playback restrictions, insert commercials at the box, and disable any features that they think are bad for their business. They have made substantial investments in the companies that produce these systems. Do you want to skip over a commercial? Sorry, Time-Warner has decided to disable that feature. Wouldn't you rather watch a trailer for Sony's latest motion picture?
I was correcting the article posted on slashdot, which asserted:
The entire range from 75GHz to 275Ghz has been given to them alone, which should ensure that all their readings are free from earth-based interference.
This is incorrect and a misreading of the BBC article.
WRC 2000 has protected for science all the frequencies between 71 and 275 gigahertz that radio astronomers currently use. They have added more than 90 GHz of spectrum to the 44 GHz already set aside for their use in this frequency range.
Radio astronomers have been given some new allocations, but not the entire 71-275 GHz frequency range. Allocating all of that range to radio astronomy would be a disaster for research, experimentation and other users of the RF spectrum.
The NSA and its precessors have been attacking problems like this for over fifty years. You take a bunch of intercepted messages, select two messages, overlay one message on top of another, subtract or exclusive-or the messages, look for a non-random result, shift or rotate one of the messages by a character or code group, and repeat. Continue until each message has been compared to every other message. The statistical anomalies indicate that two messages were encrypted with the same pad or additive. The NSA used this method to detect Soviet messages that had been encrypted with the same one-time-pad. The Soviets ran short of one-time-pads during World War II and issued duplicate pads to AMTORG and the KGB. It was also used to break naval codes that used a code book and random additive from a second book. Using multiple files makes the problem larger but the same techniques can be used.
Analog computers were widely used for fire control problems, such as aiming anti-aircraft guns or firing torpedoes. The earlier systems were electro-mechanical, with gears, motors and cams. The fire control systems on battleships were supposed to have been very complex mechanical computers. I've never found a detailed description of them, probably because their design was considered to be an important military secret. The mechanical bits were largely replaced with operational amplifiers, and then with digital computers. I believe there are still some analog optical computers used for target recognition in missile seeker heads.
if the dissidents can get their hands on, say, pgp, then it will make it much easier for them to avoid the spying, at least within email communications.
PGP doesn't help if the Chinese state security agency views encrypted email as evidence of subversion.
During World War II, the use of codes and ciphers in telegrams and snail mail by civilians in the United States was banned and would result in a visit from the FBI. There was a huge censorship operation that screened mail for war secrets, codes, ciphers and secret writing (invisible ink).
That's interesting. And you haven't had any stability problems?
I haven't had any problems. The case has a piece of plastic inside that directs some of the case's air flow over the heat sink.
By the way, does anyone know if there is any point in putting silicon paste between the chip and heat sink?
Yes, to fill any gaps between the heat sink and the chip. Air is a terrible conductor of heat. The ideal situation is to use just enough heat sink compound to displace the air from the gaps. Any more than that and you decrease the efficiency of the heat transfer.
Desktop boxes do not have to be as noisy as they currently are. I have an IBM 500 MHz Pentium III system in a tower case that is almost silent. The hard drives are shock mounted with rubber washers, the CPU has a large heat sink instead of a fan, and the power supply and case fans are very quiet. The only noticeable noise is the clicking noise made by the hard drive when it does a seek.
The 286 was the first protected mode Intel processor. And it could switch into protected mode, but required a reset for switching back to real mode. This is like having a really nice new Alpine CD player where you have to coax the CD back out with a bread knife.
To be fair to the Intel engineers, when the 80286 was being designed, real-mode was supposed to be a bootstrap into protected mode. The idea was that once you were in protected mode, you would stay there. The problem was that these decisions were being made years before the 80286 went into production, before there was a huge base of real-mode software (8086 assembler) that couldn't be easily modified to run in protected mode.
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Have you listened to the geezers and nuts on the 80 meter band?
The problem isn't the demand for cheap gas or people not using public transportation, it is the lack of internationally enforced standards for maritime safety. A ship can be registered in Liberia or other countries with low standards. A large number of ships are lost every year, 96 ships over 500 tons in 1998 alone. If these were airplanes falling out of the sky, the public would demand action. Too many ship owners cut corners on safety, crew training and quality, and maintenance. The public doesn't care, unless it involves the death of passengers or cute animals.
OK, my node-state has decided to bring back the institution of slavery. Anyone can sell themself, or their children, into slavery. The majority of the node-state's citizens have decided that this is a good idea. Any outsider who objects is a cultural imperialist.
My congressman doesn't have an email address. Even for those who do have email addresses, they seem to give more consideration to paper mail, esp. hand-written paper mail.
OS/2 solved the problem of copying a file with metadata by providing an API function (DosCopy) to copy files.
Why should he write his application for Cocoa? Mac OS X hasn't been released yet and it will be quite a while before it becomes the dominant OS on the Mac. If he writes it for Carbon, it will work on current and future Mac systems.
The DRAM market seems to alternate between drought and glut. Intel got their start making DRAMs, with the i1103 DRAM, a 1024 bit chip which helped kill magnetic core memory.
It's about 1.5 gigabit/sec, which is about the same rate as uncompressed HDTV, which can be compressed down to 19 megabit/sec.
Check the code against what? Besides looking for obvious bugs, how do you verify that the code meets the requirements if they have never been written down?
It was signed into law on 1999-11-29 by Slick.
OK, I demand that you pay me $50 or stop breathing my air. With every breath you take, you inhale air molecules that have been in my lungs, making them my private property.
The forces of darkness (MPAA members and the TV/Cable networks) do not want you to have control over the box. They want to collect fees for the use of their content, add copy protection and playback restrictions, insert commercials at the box, and disable any features that they think are bad for their business. They have made substantial investments in the companies that produce these systems. Do you want to skip over a commercial? Sorry, Time-Warner has decided to disable that feature. Wouldn't you rather watch a trailer for Sony's latest motion picture?
This is incorrect and a misreading of the BBC article.
Radio astronomers have been given some new allocations, but not the entire 71-275 GHz frequency range. Allocating all of that range to radio astronomy would be a disaster for research, experimentation and other users of the RF spectrum.
The NSA and its precessors have been attacking problems like this for over fifty years. You take a bunch of intercepted messages, select two messages, overlay one message on top of another, subtract or exclusive-or the messages, look for a non-random result, shift or rotate one of the messages by a character or code group, and repeat. Continue until each message has been compared to every other message. The statistical anomalies indicate that two messages were encrypted with the same pad or additive. The NSA used this method to detect Soviet messages that had been encrypted with the same one-time-pad. The Soviets ran short of one-time-pads during World War II and issued duplicate pads to AMTORG and the KGB. It was also used to break naval codes that used a code book and random additive from a second book. Using multiple files makes the problem larger but the same techniques can be used.
Analog computers were widely used for fire control problems, such as aiming anti-aircraft guns or firing torpedoes. The earlier systems were electro-mechanical, with gears, motors and cams. The fire control systems on battleships were supposed to have been very complex mechanical computers. I've never found a detailed description of them, probably because their design was considered to be an important military secret. The mechanical bits were largely replaced with operational amplifiers, and then with digital computers. I believe there are still some analog optical computers used for target recognition in missile seeker heads.
PGP doesn't help if the Chinese state security agency views encrypted email as evidence of subversion.
During World War II, the use of codes and ciphers in telegrams and snail mail by civilians in the United States was banned and would result in a visit from the FBI. There was a huge censorship operation that screened mail for war secrets, codes, ciphers and secret writing (invisible ink).
Yes, let's make the world safe for napalm, white phosphorus and cluster bombs.
I haven't had any problems. The case has a piece of plastic inside that directs some of the case's air flow over the heat sink.
By the way, does anyone know if there is any point in putting silicon paste between the chip and heat sink?
Yes, to fill any gaps between the heat sink and the chip. Air is a terrible conductor of heat. The ideal situation is to use just enough heat sink compound to displace the air from the gaps. Any more than that and you decrease the efficiency of the heat transfer.
I would love to have a laptop computer that could run for days on a battery charge, even if the CPU was slow by desktop standards.
Desktop boxes do not have to be as noisy as they currently are. I have an IBM 500 MHz Pentium III system in a tower case that is almost silent. The hard drives are shock mounted with rubber washers, the CPU has a large heat sink instead of a fan, and the power supply and case fans are very quiet. The only noticeable noise is the clicking noise made by the hard drive when it does a seek.
Read the article.
There are plenty of people like that on Earth. Although they tend not to be the same people who have $20 million to spend on a trip to space.
To be fair to the Intel engineers, when the 80286 was being designed, real-mode was supposed to be a bootstrap into protected mode. The idea was that once you were in protected mode, you would stay there. The problem was that these decisions were being made years before the 80286 went into production, before there was a huge base of real-mode software (8086 assembler) that couldn't be easily modified to run in protected mode.