What about color rendition? Incandescents produce a broad output spectrum since they are black-body radiators. Fluorescent lamps tend to produce a very spiky output spectrum, with most of the energy concentrated in a few narrow peaks. See the graphs in the Wiki article on fluorescent lamps.
It isn't just the Shuttle software. The end-of-year rollover has been a major source of problems and glitches for many government computer systems. To make things worse, there is the possibility of a leap-second. Leap-second insertion is rarely problem-free and seamless.
Prodigy sort of faded away. The final nail in its coffin was Y2K. They decided that it would cost too much money to update the software to be Y2K compliant. "Prodigy Classic" was shut down at the end of 1999.
The Prodigy software was actually pretty impressive for how much stuff it could do over a slow modem. It supported NAPLPS, which never really caught on outside a few specialized applications.
You're full of shit. I've seen the exact same problem on several VCRs. Macrovision screws up the picture, even when the VCR is in bypass mode. The only way to fix it is to directly connect the DVD player to the TV.
Target shooting is an international sport. Although it is probably too politically incorrect for most school systems, I've heard of marksmanship teams at some high schools. It's probably safer than driver's education.
Computing power isn't really the issue either. Routers do not have to be designed around general-purpose computers. I've written software for systems based upon 1970s technology that could process multi-megabit data streams. The key was clever design and architecture, with a dose of custom hardware for things that were impractical to do with software.
It does apply to private citizens when they are operating under the direction of the government. A police officer can't bypass the constitution by asking a private citizen to perform an illegal search.
The government can't bypass the rules of evidence by employing private citizens as proxies. If I enter your house, without your consent, and see a kilo of heroin on your kitchen table, I can report that to the police. The police can use that information to obtain a search warrant, even though I was a trespasser. If Detective Smith asks me to check your house for contraband, the situation is different. It's an illegal search and any evidence that resulted from the search would be inadmissible in court.
It doesn't have to be an "attack", it can be something as simple as a stuck switch or a book placed on top of a keyboard. On an airplane, you have to consider the two-year-old who wants to play with the pretty buttons.
Given some failure data, you can calculate an MTBF for almost anything. The military has been compiling reliability data for various electronic components for many decades.
I think we need a corporate records retention law to help avoid these sorts of situations. Besides intentional destruction of evidence, many corporations intentionally destroy email as quickly as possible, to make it difficult for anyone to find any evidence of wrongdoing in future civil or criminal litigation.
I'm used to running and writing systems that use UTC for everything, including the user interface, because the systems may be installed anywhere in the world. How do you deal with "local time" in networked systems where the users insist on using local time? Even a small network may cross time zones. What about clock synchronization in Windows-based networks? Does it convert everything to UTC? This sounds like it could be a mess for companies that insist on presenting the user with local time in networked applications.
Back in the old days, alarm companies leased dedicated loops from the telephone company. If the line was cut, it would immediately generate an alarm at the monitoring station.
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In the past, people have also used those circular snow sleds as the basis for building a dish antenna.
What about color rendition? Incandescents produce a broad output spectrum since they are black-body radiators. Fluorescent lamps tend to produce a very spiky output spectrum, with most of the energy concentrated in a few narrow peaks. See the graphs in the Wiki article on fluorescent lamps.
It isn't just the Shuttle software. The end-of-year rollover has been a major source of problems and glitches for many government computer systems. To make things worse, there is the possibility of a leap-second. Leap-second insertion is rarely problem-free and seamless.
Prodigy sort of faded away. The final nail in its coffin was Y2K. They decided that it would cost too much money to update the software to be Y2K compliant. "Prodigy Classic" was shut down at the end of 1999.
The Prodigy software was actually pretty impressive for how much stuff it could do over a slow modem. It supported NAPLPS, which never really caught on outside a few specialized applications.
You're full of shit. I've seen the exact same problem on several VCRs. Macrovision screws up the picture, even when the VCR is in bypass mode. The only way to fix it is to directly connect the DVD player to the TV.
Target shooting is an international sport. Although it is probably too politically incorrect for most school systems, I've heard of marksmanship teams at some high schools. It's probably safer than driver's education.
Vaporizing certain people does add value to the world.
Parent should read "1 micrometre". Slashdot munged my post.
Where did you get the figure of 80%? I have a text on laser welding that gives a reflectance of 20-30% at 1 m for most metals.
Computing power isn't really the issue either. Routers do not have to be designed around general-purpose computers. I've written software for systems based upon 1970s technology that could process multi-megabit data streams. The key was clever design and architecture, with a dose of custom hardware for things that were impractical to do with software.
Why would the USA care about your job in Saudi Arabia?
I recently watched a documentary on the Humboldt Squid, which is only the size of a large dog, and they were scary.
The latest Supreme Court decision on the subject appears to be Illinois v. Gates.
It does apply to private citizens when they are operating under the direction of the government. A police officer can't bypass the constitution by asking a private citizen to perform an illegal search.
The government can't bypass the rules of evidence by employing private citizens as proxies. If I enter your house, without your consent, and see a kilo of heroin on your kitchen table, I can report that to the police. The police can use that information to obtain a search warrant, even though I was a trespasser. If Detective Smith asks me to check your house for contraband, the situation is different. It's an illegal search and any evidence that resulted from the search would be inadmissible in court.
It doesn't have to be an "attack", it can be something as simple as a stuck switch or a book placed on top of a keyboard. On an airplane, you have to consider the two-year-old who wants to play with the pretty buttons.
Until it encounters an energetic cosmic ray or an alpha particle.
Given some failure data, you can calculate an MTBF for almost anything. The military has been compiling reliability data for various electronic components for many decades.
MTBF tells you the failure rate over the item's service lifetime, which for hard disks, is commonly five years.
If one of their kids gets splattered all over the road by a speeder, I suppose you'll drop by and tell them just to get over it.
I think we need a corporate records retention law to help avoid these sorts of situations. Besides intentional destruction of evidence, many corporations intentionally destroy email as quickly as possible, to make it difficult for anyone to find any evidence of wrongdoing in future civil or criminal litigation.
I'm used to running and writing systems that use UTC for everything, including the user interface, because the systems may be installed anywhere in the world. How do you deal with "local time" in networked systems where the users insist on using local time? Even a small network may cross time zones. What about clock synchronization in Windows-based networks? Does it convert everything to UTC? This sounds like it could be a mess for companies that insist on presenting the user with local time in networked applications.
Back in the old days, alarm companies leased dedicated loops from the telephone company. If the line was cut, it would immediately generate an alarm at the monitoring station.
Only for Verizon employees.