10 megabit Ethernet refers to 2^20 bits (not bytes)
Wrong. 10 megabit Ethernet is 10*10^6 bits/s. In communication engineering, kilo is 10^3, mega is 10^6, giga is 10^9. Rates are specified as bits/s or symbols/s.
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Some of us like the CPU to run correctly and meet the published specifications. You can't guarantee that with an overclocked CPU unless you have a multi-million dollar chip testing machine and the appropriate test software. In the real world, you don't want some luser overclocking his computer, resulting in a system that crashes or produces questionable results.
Well tell me then, why giving 30,000+ people their livelyhood, making a quarter of them millionaries is bad?
I'm sure I.G. Farben also employed huge numbers of people and made many people rich. That doesn't change the fact that it was a morally degenerate and evil cartel.
OS/2 was a joint project between IBM and Microsoft. Microsoft was deeply involved in the development of OS/2 1.X and OS/2 2.X before they abandoned it and started pushing Windows NT. The HPFS file system was written by Gordon Letwin at Microsoft.
A friend of mine spent several thousand dollars for the Microsoft OS/2 2.X Software Development Kit. Shortly thereafter they ditched their plans to release Microsoft OS/2 2.X. They also kept the money from the sale of the SDKs.
It does that all by itself. Microsoft has one of the flakiest web sites on the Internet. I get all sorts of strange error messages about broken ODBC servers, connection reset by peer, broken javascript, etc. It's a great advertisement for their alleged "Enterprise Computing" capabilities.
An artificial language isn't going to help you, unless it is something that is very difficult to learn like Navajo. The list of "dead" languages that can't be translated is fairly short. Cryptographers have been breaking codes (as opposed to ciphers) for many years.
The wizards at Microsoft don't even support older versions of Internet Explorer. I've recently done several installations of Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, which installs IE 2.0. Microsoft's web site is totally non-functional with this browser. You would think that they would make it easy to download and upgrade to IE 5.0. I didn't have any trouble using IE 2.0 to download the latest version of Netscape.
No, it isn't a joke. Gerald Holmes should be congratulated for exposing the international Communist conspiracy to subvert our computers and contaminate our precious bodily fluids.
Don't believe me? Then why does Linux have a cccp command? The manual page says that it is a compiler preprocessor. That is what Linus and his fellow travellers would like you to think.
Take a look at the intro man page for plan 9. What computer do they use for editing, login and remote file access? kremvax!!!
Bill Gates makes sure that no commies can corrupt our children by enhancing Windows. Ask him for the source code, he will say "What are you, some sort of Communist?". Bill knows that "open source" is just a code word for the international Communist conspiracy.
But in all candor, I would tell you it is outrageous filth, and we have got to do something about it. I take the tempered approach, of our distinguished chairman, and commend it. Yet, I would make the statement that if I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would.
Why waste CPU cycles on compression? With this much space you could store audio and video in uncompressed form. Just dump everything through an ADC and write it to the disk. This would eliminate all of the compression artifacts that you get with MP3 and MPEG.
It's already been done. The Church of $cientology distributed filtering software to its members that filters out material critical of the Church or only available to members who have completed specific training courses (AKA the secret scriptures, NOTS etc.)
If you read the stories, the congressional committees are the ones who are marking up the NASA budget, not NASA.
The problem is that the two biggest money sinks in the NASA budget, Shuttle and Space Station, are being put off-limits for budget cuts. That means much more severe cuts for the rest of NASA's programs.
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Well, I guess that kills off all of the.gov web sites.
If someone sends me a package via UPS I have to take time off from work to receive and sign for the package. They wont leave the package with a neighbor or let me sign for it on the delivery notice. Their schedule isn't too predictable, they show up sometime in the afternoon. It makes me wonder why they even bother with residential deliveries. Delivery to a business address isn't possible for many people, plus many companies have policies against employees receiving personal packages/mail.
The USPS leaves a delivery notice and I pick up the package at the local post office at my convenience the next day. This is much easier.
UPS may be cheaper or more convenient for shippers but they seem to have no interest in making life easier for the people who receive the packages.
Remember that the brute force attack is the upper bound on the time required to crack a key. It does not guarantee the absence of more sophisticated and efficient attacks.
A simple monoalphabetic substitition cipher has a large keyspace (26! or about 88 bits). That doesn't make it secure.
In any case, your description of the plutonium risk is a massive exaggeration. Plutonium is primarily dangerous if you breath it in as dust after managing to survive the atomic explosion that spread it around in the first place. If you do that, it is about the most toxic substance known to man - it will settle into your bones and just start spawning cancers.
Plutonium is not the most toxic substance known to man. There are many biological toxins that are much more dangerous. There is a paper on the subject here, written by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It contains actual scientific facts, not eco-loonie propaganda as propagated by Helen Caldicott and Karl Grossman.
It isn't about terrorism, drugs, child pornography or money laundering. Those are just convenient explanations for the DOJ/FBI agenda.
If I was a terrorist, I wouldn't be encrypting anything on a computer. I would use pencil, paper and a one time pad. Pencils don't have TEMPEST problems.
The FBI and NSA are working hard to keep strong and easy to use crypto out of the hands of ordinary citizens. Why don't we have strong crypto in the new digital cellular/PCS systems? The NSA made sure that only weak crypto or no crypto was designed into these systems.
The NSA doesn't want anything that will impair the effectiveness of Echelon.
The FBI doesn't want anything that will impair their ability to run wiretaps.
Clinton doesn't give a shit about civil liberties or the Constitution. Neither do many members of Congress.
My understanding is that the K6 does not have the APIC (interrupt controller) needed for SMP. The K5 had a SMP capable PIC but nobody supported it. I've read that the APIC is patented by Intel.
I read a year or two ago in a magazine, that the shuttle is packed with explosives and should it be going dangerously off-course then NASA can make it go boom. Can anybody confirm this?
That is not true. The shuttle has a range safety system composed of radio receivers, command decoders and explosive charges on the SRBs. There used to be explosive charges on the ET but they are no longer installed. There have never been any explosive charges on the orbiter. The explosive charges are designed to terminate thrust, not "blow up" the shuttle. The purpose of the system is to make sure that, if something goes wrong, the debris lands in a safe area. There is a Range Safety Officer that is responsible for sending a destruct command if there is a danger of debris landing in a populated area due to uncontrolled flight. This is standard procedure for all US launches. Most expendable launch vehicles will self-destruct if they detect a serious problem such as structural failure. The explosive charges are usually linear shaped charges that cut open the rocket motors and fuel tanks. The "explosion" that you see on TV is actually the rapid burning of the fuel and oxidizer from the ruptured fuel tanks, not the explosive charges.
And if in fact the stranded astronauts did NOT have suicide pills, what might they have done? Going for a moonwalk without a spacesuit comes to mind...
Depressurizing the LEM would be a quick way to kill yourself. It would result in rapid loss of consciousness and death. Contrary to numerous cheesy Hollywood movies, people do not explode in a vacuum. A similar technique has been used to euthanize animals in animal shelters.
I wouldn't expect NASA and the astronauts to give up too quickly. Most of the astronauts were test pilots, a profession with a high death rate. I've seen cockpit films of test pilots calmly reporting aircraft behavior as they were seconds away from death.
This is just further proof that Intel isn't out to make quality chips anymore, they're just out to gain market share. Intel isn't about making quality products, they're a marketing company.
Anymore? Intel has always produced chips that were "good enough", not great. It probably makes sense from a financial point of view, even if it sucks for the engineer/programmer who has to make them work in a system.
Most classical recordings are straight digital (DDD) because more classical music listeners are "audiophiles" and demand it. Further, they have a choice. If you want a CD of Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky", and you can choose between two recordings, both by reputable orchestras, and one is ADD and the other DDD, which would you pick?
I listen to a lot of classical music, esp. opera. Many of the really great performances were recorded in the 1950s and 1960s. Some recent CDs that I bought were remastered from 1950s mono recordings. They still sound pretty good today. The same applies to many classic Jazz recordings.
What's the point of having 22 bit ADCs, digital mixing boards and all the latest toys to produce a DDD CD if the musicians and vocalists are mediocre?
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Wrong. 10 megabit Ethernet is 10*10^6 bits/s. In communication engineering, kilo is 10^3, mega is 10^6, giga is 10^9. Rates are specified as bits/s or symbols/s.
Some of us like the CPU to run correctly and meet the published specifications. You can't guarantee that with an overclocked CPU unless you have a multi-million dollar chip testing machine and the appropriate test software. In the real world, you don't want some luser overclocking his computer, resulting in a system that crashes or produces questionable results.
I'm sure I.G. Farben also employed huge numbers of people and made many people rich. That doesn't change the fact that it was a morally degenerate and evil cartel.
A friend of mine spent several thousand dollars for the Microsoft OS/2 2.X Software Development Kit. Shortly thereafter they ditched their plans to release Microsoft OS/2 2.X. They also kept the money from the sale of the SDKs.
It does that all by itself. Microsoft has one of the flakiest web sites on the Internet. I get all sorts of strange error messages about broken ODBC servers, connection reset by peer, broken javascript, etc. It's a great advertisement for their alleged "Enterprise Computing" capabilities.
An artificial language isn't going to help you, unless it is something that is very difficult to learn like Navajo. The list of "dead" languages that can't be translated is fairly short. Cryptographers have been breaking codes (as opposed to ciphers) for many years.
This lets them get away with a pathetically small defense force and spend the money on other things.
As a percentage of GDP, Canada spends about 1.2% as compared to 3.4% in the USA.
A high speed CPU is nice but a balanced system needs high bandwidth I/O and memory systems. Take a look at these benchmarks of memory bandwidth.
Your typical high performance PC has 200-300 MB/s of memory bandwidth. A NEC SX-4 has over 400 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
The wizards at Microsoft don't even support older versions of Internet Explorer. I've recently done several installations of Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, which installs IE 2.0. Microsoft's web site is totally non-functional with this browser. You would think that they would make it easy to download and upgrade to IE 5.0. I didn't have any trouble using IE 2.0 to download the latest version of Netscape.
Don't believe me? Then why does Linux have a cccp command? The manual page says that it is a compiler preprocessor. That is what Linus and his fellow travellers would like you to think.
Take a look at the intro man page for plan 9. What computer do they use for editing, login and remote file access? kremvax!!!
Bill Gates makes sure that no commies can corrupt our children by enhancing Windows. Ask him for the source code, he will say "What are you, some sort of Communist?". Bill knows that "open source" is just a code word for the international Communist conspiracy.
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Why waste CPU cycles on compression? With this much space you could store audio and video in uncompressed form. Just dump everything through an ADC and write it to the disk. This would eliminate all of the compression artifacts that you get with MP3 and MPEG.
It's already been done. The Church of $cientology distributed filtering software to its members that filters out material critical of the Church or only available to members who have completed specific training courses (AKA the secret scriptures, NOTS etc.)
If you don't believe me, post something on usenet that threatens the president. The Secret Service will be talking to you.
The problem is that the two biggest money sinks in the NASA budget, Shuttle and Space Station, are being put off-limits for budget cuts. That means much more severe cuts for the rest of NASA's programs.
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Well, I guess that kills off all of the .gov web sites.
The USPS leaves a delivery notice and I pick up the package at the local post office at my convenience the next day. This is much easier.
UPS may be cheaper or more convenient for shippers but they seem to have no interest in making life easier for the people who receive the packages.
Remember that the brute force attack is the upper bound on the time required to crack a key. It does not guarantee the absence of more sophisticated and efficient attacks.
A simple monoalphabetic substitition cipher has a large keyspace (26! or about 88 bits). That doesn't make it secure.
Plutonium is not the most toxic substance known to man. There are many biological toxins that are much more dangerous. There is a paper on the subject here, written by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It contains actual scientific facts, not eco-loonie propaganda as propagated by Helen Caldicott and Karl Grossman.
If I was a terrorist, I wouldn't be encrypting anything on a computer. I would use pencil, paper and a one time pad. Pencils don't have TEMPEST problems.
The FBI and NSA are working hard to keep strong and easy to use crypto out of the hands of ordinary citizens. Why don't we have strong crypto in the new digital cellular/PCS systems? The NSA made sure that only weak crypto or no crypto was designed into these systems.
The NSA doesn't want anything that will impair the effectiveness of Echelon.
The FBI doesn't want anything that will impair their ability to run wiretaps.
Clinton doesn't give a shit about civil liberties or the Constitution. Neither do many members of Congress.
My understanding is that the K6 does not have the APIC (interrupt controller) needed for SMP. The K5 had a SMP capable PIC but nobody supported it. I've read that the APIC is patented by Intel.
That is not true. The shuttle has a range safety system composed of radio receivers, command decoders and explosive charges on the SRBs. There used to be explosive charges on the ET but they are no longer installed. There have never been any explosive charges on the orbiter. The explosive charges are designed to terminate thrust, not "blow up" the shuttle. The purpose of the system is to make sure that, if something goes wrong, the debris lands in a safe area. There is a Range Safety Officer that is responsible for sending a destruct command if there is a danger of debris landing in a populated area due to uncontrolled flight. This is standard procedure for all US launches. Most expendable launch vehicles will self-destruct if they detect a serious problem such as structural failure. The explosive charges are usually linear shaped charges that cut open the rocket motors and fuel tanks. The "explosion" that you see on TV is actually the rapid burning of the fuel and oxidizer from the ruptured fuel tanks, not the explosive charges.
Depressurizing the LEM would be a quick way to kill yourself. It would result in rapid loss of consciousness and death. Contrary to numerous cheesy Hollywood movies, people do not explode in a vacuum. A similar technique has been used to euthanize animals in animal shelters.
I wouldn't expect NASA and the astronauts to give up too quickly. Most of the astronauts were test pilots, a profession with a high death rate. I've seen cockpit films of test pilots calmly reporting aircraft behavior as they were seconds away from death.
Anymore? Intel has always produced chips that were "good enough", not great. It probably makes sense from a financial point of view, even if it sucks for the engineer/programmer who has to make them work in a system.
I listen to a lot of classical music, esp. opera. Many of the really great performances were recorded in the 1950s and 1960s. Some recent CDs that I bought were remastered from 1950s mono recordings. They still sound pretty good today. The same applies to many classic Jazz recordings.
What's the point of having 22 bit ADCs, digital mixing boards and all the latest toys to produce a DDD CD if the musicians and vocalists are mediocre?