The problem is that media companies and computer users have different requirements. Media companies need a disk that can be mass produced with stampers, like the current CD and DVD. Computer users need a disk that can be read/write on a sector level. The current CD-R is a clumsy hybrid of the two.
Many businesses still run "old machines" like Pentiums. They are fast enough for many tasks and they don't have the money to buy everyone new machines. Their reliability is usually very good.
They did use the "current" version of NT. Windows 2000 isn't officially shipping yet. I can't buy a copy off-the-shelf at my local software store.
NT's alleged scalability advantages are irrelevant to many businesses. Almost all of the NT boxes that I have seen are standard single or dual processor systems. 4/8 processor systems are very expensive.
Is this sort of false match inevitable when you are comparing large numbers of DNA fingerprints from unsolved crimes to a large database of DNA samples?
Though personally, I don't really see this as a big deal; this kind of legislation would have to be tested in a court of law, and I don't think it would survive judicial review...
IANAL. The last time this came up, someone pointed out that legislative acts took precedence over common law. Unless someone can find a constitutional argument against the law, the court is stuck with enforcing it, even if it is a bad law.
You should call or write your representatives in the Virginia General Assembly. This page is a good starting point, it's the official Virginia ONLINE Legislature web page. You can use it to find out who your senator and representatives are.
That page isn't useful. It's a list of federal representatives and senators. Try this page, it is the organizational structure of the Maryland House of Delegates and has links to member directories.
A lot of people have the weird idea that NASA is some monolithic agency where the CIO dictates the color of the mouse pads. It doesn't work like that. If you name an operating system, somebody, somewhere is using it. The goal is to use the best tool for the job, not to worship at the throne of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Linus Torvalds.
These contracts are issued to save money on items that are likely to be in high demand. It also reduces the amount of paperwork and red tape.
There is an algorithm in the kernel scheduler that doesn't scale well at all to large run queues, and starts sucking up massive amounts of CPU in certain situations, thus degrading performance terribly. But should the bug be fixed? The consensus was no: 1000 processes running at once is a misuse of multitasking/ multithreading, and the application should be redesigned to reduce the number of threads to less than 10. Fixing the scheduler would have made it perform worse in the general case, just so a strange benchmark which works in a proscribed manner will look nicer.
I don't want to pick on Linux but I hate being on the receiving end of this sort of thing.
Q: Your software breaks when I do X.
A: We never do X. You are weird. Don't do X. Now go away.
There were many deficiencies in early UNIX kernels, mostly in error checking/recovery and algorithms that scaled poorly. At the time, there were legitimate reasons for it. It was a research operating system that had restricted resources, keeping things simple was important. That was 25 years ago.
Today, I can think of no good reason why a modern operating system should not be able to handle very large numbers of threads/processes/sockets/files without crashing or exhibiting pathological behaviour. Fast and small is nice but not at the expense of reliability and scalability.
Err, 500 mbits/sec on each of the two send pairs (the other two pairs are for recieve)
According to the 3COM white paper, all four pairs are used. Hybrids are used, like in a telephone, to allow simultaneous transmit and receive on each pair.
In the case of World War I, the Zimmerman telegram laid the foundation for the United State's entry into the war. The sinking of the Lusitania was more of a final straw. British propaganda was a factor, something that backfired on them in later years when Americans learned how they had been lied to.
The Sugar Grove Naval Communications Facility near Sugar Grove, West Virginia is an NSA satellite intercept facility. See this web page for the FAS list of the NSA's facilities.
I hope the State Department sends the French President a case of California Champagne and an Echelon tape of his mistress's hottest phone calls.
There is a simple solution to Echelon. Stop sending voice and data over unprotected radio, microwave and satellite links. Even if Echelon was shut down, which I think would be a terrible idea, there are plenty of other countries with SIGINT capabilities.
The French have reached new levels of hypocrisy. US Security Bulletins have been warning Americans about widespread and massive espionage by the DGSE for many, many years. This is like the Menendez brothers asking for a lenient sentence because they are orphans.
T1s could be much cheaper than $600 a month if there was true competition in the telephone business. The cost of providing a T1 has dropped like a rock but the telephone companies have kept their rates artificially high. DSL technology has made it much cheaper to provide a T1.
Intel has lost the low end of the Xeon market. For two or fewer processors, the Xeon is a waste of money. They have lost design-ins in that market segment. Everyone switched to single or dual Pentium IIIs.
If I was a hungry (and not very ethical) lawyer, I'd make a killing suing libraries that traumatized little Jimmy by providing him access to content he couldn't handle.
You could make the same argument about books. I would argue that a book can be far more "dangerous" than an image of Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore having sex with assorted farm animals. Books convey ideas and bad ideas have resulted in the deaths of millions of people.
Henry Ford Sr., a prominent Michiganer, sponsored, published and distributed "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem", a vicious work of anti-semitic propaganda. Should that be in the Holland public library? It has historical relevance to Michigan and the United States. It has also been republished on the web by various anti-semitic groups and individuals. Should you block or allow access to the hardcopy version of the work and the web sites?
Yes, but at least when the hippies and civil rights activists linked arms around police chains the media wasn't treating it like they where crippling major cities.
I remember the media and government going batshit when antiwar activists threatened to shut down Washington D.C. with demonstrations and blockades on major roads and bridges. The police and National Guard made mass arrests of everyone who was perceived to be a threat to public order, around 10,000 people were arrested.
There is another school of thought that says that it is more important to provide a consistent QOS than a variable QOS that is dependent on system load. I've heard of some work on user interfaces that is consistent with this philosophy. Users will adapt to a faster response time and become irritated when the system doesn't maintain a fast response time, even if the slower response time of a heavily loaded system is the same as the old system's response time. The nervous system and brain tune themselves to the response time of the system.
The GPS satellites are not in geosynchronous orbits. The orbit is 26,560 km above the center of the earth with an orbital period of 12 sidereal hours. If you watch the spacecraft tracking display on a GPS receiver, you will see the satellites rise and set.
I've read some papers on research operating systems that use huge global virtual address spaces that are shared across multiple computers. Each object gets a globally unique virtual address that is never reused. That can use up a lot of address bits.
From the description, IBM is not using asynchronous logic. They are using synchronous logic. The innovation is that the chip is divided up into multiple, independent clock domains, running at different speeds.
My question is are the clocks phase locked to a master timing source or are they free running?
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The problem is that media companies and computer users have different requirements. Media companies need a disk that can be mass produced with stampers, like the current CD and DVD. Computer users need a disk that can be read/write on a sector level. The current CD-R is a clumsy hybrid of the two.
Many businesses still run "old machines" like Pentiums. They are fast enough for many tasks and they don't have the money to buy everyone new machines. Their reliability is usually very good.
NT's alleged scalability advantages are irrelevant to many businesses. Almost all of the NT boxes that I have seen are standard single or dual processor systems. 4/8 processor systems are very expensive.
Is this sort of false match inevitable when you are comparing large numbers of DNA fingerprints from unsolved crimes to a large database of DNA samples?
IANAL. The last time this came up, someone pointed out that legislative acts took precedence over common law. Unless someone can find a constitutional argument against the law, the court is stuck with enforcing it, even if it is a bad law.
Here is a page that will find your Maryland legislative district and representatives based on your address and zip code.
You should call or write your representatives in the Virginia General Assembly. This page is a good starting point, it's the official Virginia ONLINE Legislature web page. You can use it to find out who your senator and representatives are.
That page isn't useful. It's a list of federal representatives and senators. Try this page, it is the organizational structure of the Maryland House of Delegates and has links to member directories.
The safe way of doing it is to put a cup of water inside the microwave. This provides a load for the magnetron.
A lot of people have the weird idea that NASA is some monolithic agency where the CIO dictates the color of the mouse pads. It doesn't work like that. If you name an operating system, somebody, somewhere is using it. The goal is to use the best tool for the job, not to worship at the throne of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Linus Torvalds.
These contracts are issued to save money on items that are likely to be in high demand. It also reduces the amount of paperwork and red tape.
I don't want to pick on Linux but I hate being on the receiving end of this sort of thing.
Q: Your software breaks when I do X.
A: We never do X. You are weird. Don't do X. Now go away.
There were many deficiencies in early UNIX kernels, mostly in error checking/recovery and algorithms that scaled poorly. At the time, there were legitimate reasons for it. It was a research operating system that had restricted resources, keeping things simple was important. That was 25 years ago.
Today, I can think of no good reason why a modern operating system should not be able to handle very large numbers of threads/processes/sockets/files without crashing or exhibiting pathological behaviour. Fast and small is nice but not at the expense of reliability and scalability.
According to the 3COM white paper, all four pairs are used. Hybrids are used, like in a telephone, to allow simultaneous transmit and receive on each pair.
In the case of World War I, the Zimmerman telegram laid the foundation for the United State's entry into the war. The sinking of the Lusitania was more of a final straw. British propaganda was a factor, something that backfired on them in later years when Americans learned how they had been lied to.
The Sugar Grove Naval Communications Facility near Sugar Grove, West Virginia is an NSA satellite intercept facility. See this web page for the FAS list of the NSA's facilities.
There is a simple solution to Echelon. Stop sending voice and data over unprotected radio, microwave and satellite links. Even if Echelon was shut down, which I think would be a terrible idea, there are plenty of other countries with SIGINT capabilities.
The French have reached new levels of hypocrisy. US Security Bulletins have been warning Americans about widespread and massive espionage by the DGSE for many, many years. This is like the Menendez brothers asking for a lenient sentence because they are orphans.
T1s could be much cheaper than $600 a month if there was true competition in the telephone business. The cost of providing a T1 has dropped like a rock but the telephone companies have kept their rates artificially high. DSL technology has made it much cheaper to provide a T1.
Intel has lost the low end of the Xeon market. For two or fewer processors, the Xeon is a waste of money. They have lost design-ins in that market segment. Everyone switched to single or dual Pentium IIIs.
You could make the same argument about books. I would argue that a book can be far more "dangerous" than an image of Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore having sex with assorted farm animals. Books convey ideas and bad ideas have resulted in the deaths of millions of people.
Henry Ford Sr., a prominent Michiganer, sponsored, published and distributed "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem", a vicious work of anti-semitic propaganda. Should that be in the Holland public library? It has historical relevance to Michigan and the United States. It has also been republished on the web by various anti-semitic groups and individuals. Should you block or allow access to the hardcopy version of the work and the web sites?
I remember the media and government going batshit when antiwar activists threatened to shut down Washington D.C. with demonstrations and blockades on major roads and bridges. The police and National Guard made mass arrests of everyone who was perceived to be a threat to public order, around 10,000 people were arrested.
There is another school of thought that says that it is more important to provide a consistent QOS than a variable QOS that is dependent on system load. I've heard of some work on user interfaces that is consistent with this philosophy. Users will adapt to a faster response time and become irritated when the system doesn't maintain a fast response time, even if the slower response time of a heavily loaded system is the same as the old system's response time. The nervous system and brain tune themselves to the response time of the system.
The GPS satellites are not in geosynchronous orbits. The orbit is 26,560 km above the center of the earth with an orbital period of 12 sidereal hours. If you watch the spacecraft tracking display on a GPS receiver, you will see the satellites rise and set.
I think the major danger would be that hostile countries could use the images for targetting missiles on Israeli defense installations.
The US has a huge geographic database that is used for programming terrain following cruise missiles.
I've read some papers on research operating systems that use huge global virtual address spaces that are shared across multiple computers. Each object gets a globally unique virtual address that is never reused. That can use up a lot of address bits.
My question is are the clocks phase locked to a master timing source or are they free running?