And may the souls of every single president and congressman that has cut funds from the Space program in order to facilitate war and destruction burn in the lowest circle of hell.
After all the Shuttle was around 20 years old. So I guess we should all have expected and seen it coming.
As most typical americans you have a memeoryspan of 6 years +/-1. 10 years ago before Starbusck started there was not a single outfit selling drinkable coffee in the US besides one or two larger cities with big Italian colonies.
Ever tried to by an espresso in any Ohio city in the 80-es and the beginning of the 90'es? Compared to the brown-painted horse piss sold everywhere under the name Coffee Starbucks was and is salvation.
Note: I am not saying that their coffee is not shit, I am simply saying that it is considerable better then 99.9% of what was available before they came.
In the past, they have done several tests of their ICBMs in the Atlantic whithout notifying neither the Americans, nor the Brits. As a result quite a few people in NORAD, RAF and the Russian missile command have quite a few grey hairs more then usual.
Seeing a missile appear from nowhere off the Irish Coast and head across the Atlantic in the general Wahington direction is not funny. At all. Or at least neither the Russians nor the US and the UK found it funny in the past. Dunno about the French.
When you sod off the high school science and get to the university level one you start seeing how much of the stuff that is attributed to Edison is actually Tesla's.
Otherwise:
1. Cylinders instead of disks on the phonograph - dead on the money. Look at the old pictures from the first advertisements for the new gadget in the history books. See disks there? Nope. Not if Edisons name is mentioned anywhere close.
2. AC vs DC. Dead on the money as well. Dunno about him not understanding it but there is more then enough info about Westighouse out there and Tesla as well to confirm this.
3. Layers - dead on the money as well.
4. Also, as far as I know he was the first to invent the cubicle sweatshop for engineering. There are more then enough historical references that show how work in his labs was organised. He was the first person to hire engineers and designers in quantities instead of going for quality with a small design team the way people like Brunel, Eifel, etc did.
PA-RISC brings better support revenue. The support contracts are much higher for similar services. It is also more popular with telcos, banks, etc - people who buy and pay support contracts. On the contrary Alpha has been popular in the engineering market which usually does not even like paying for extended warranties. There are exemptions to this rule like older Nortel softswitches, BT, etc but they are not that many.
Overall, in the big wide world performance does not really matter when it comes to revenue in the big iron (unix or mainframe) market. What matters is the services and recurring revenue.
IBM has understood this long ago. HP understood it a while ago. DEC and then Compaq never caught up. And payed the ultimate price. Having better chips it lost to the people having a better (more profitable) business model
This one will be quieter then the usual. Smaller and less powerful fans becayue there is less cable clutter and less resistance to air. At the end it will depend what fans it uses but it has a better chance to be quiet then a normal spagetty case,
4.77, not 1. And it predates all laptops and the Imac by far. I have worked on one of these beasts once upon a time. It was a bit heavy to move arond but it was definitely the first ever portable PC. Long before Zenith did the first laptop.
Also, the thing here is the design idea, not the Mhz. Assuming the author of the original post referred to the Imac, this monster has seen the market after Mac classic so I guess Apple still holds the seniority here. And the Imac is nothing but Mac classic redux. Taking the idea that shot Apple into orbit and giving it another roll... And trying to make us all think that it is original. And different... B.Sh...
There was someone else (forgot who) who actually had 3x3 vector ops and other stuff as well in a standard 387 package. So you could do the SIMD shit intel has been screaming about now 10 years ago. if you shelled out for the chip of course. It was not very expensive either...
Overall it was Weitek, AMD and that "someone else, forgot who" who had better FPUs then Intel.
Nothing actually holds them to their word on this.
Do you think that Finland is a village in Alabama or something? Finland is a civilised country. And as such it has data protection regulations and telecoms laws you have hardly dreamed of. In order to get to that data police need
1. A court warrant on a specific person
2. Having obtained the court warrant they can start recording only the specific subset they have been granted access to.
3. They have no access to any prior data except the last 60 days of billing (and nothing but billing).
4. Any non-billing data that can personally identify an individual may not be retained by the telecom operator and is immediately destroyed after operational use.
Germany and other EU countries have similar laws. There are exemptions of course. Like the UK.
But overall, the police cannot get to any data of practical interest for the prosecution of minor misdemanors.
This is GSM, not CDMA. It has a limit on the timing advance which puts a well defined limit on the "remoteness". As a result people do not use directed antennas at all.
Not in Finland. They have plenty of precedents of telling the police to go screw themselves under similar circumstamnces. In other words they are a civilised country (civilised does not mean pleasant to live in, you should see their liquor prices).
The first picture taken by a new speed camera recently installed in my town showed 106 mph in a 30 mph zone. That is 90 feet before a blind bend. I was wondering why the hell did they put it there as I have never been unable to accelerate in my GM "Astra Montana crawling coffin" to 30 mph in the space between the traffic lights and the camera but I guess that the pictures prove me wrong;-)
So, never understimate how mad some people are...
This does not mean that I do not agree with you. I do. I will actually give an example: the more corrupt the country cops are the more they are into sitting with radar on the roads. Look at Europe. The likelihood of speedtraps grows linearly while going from West to East. If you get as far East as Bulgaria you can even see decoy traps and portable speed limit signs put into the most unexpected places to improve the coppers income.
They do. Though usually it is not the car that has had the tire blown out but the next one to hit the debris.
Have you ever seen the front of an average car let's say GM/Opel/Vauxhall Astra or Ford Focus after colliding with debris from a truck tire? I have (on a Focus). It is not a pretty sight... At 70 miles per hour it is a definite writeoff due to structural damage.
I still think that you need serious gear. Here is why:
Original site does not exist. It all went into the lake. That is besides the fact that the closest you can get to it is quite far away anyway.
So you are not going to get anywhere with a Geiger counter. Mass spectrometer and looking into oddities in isotop distribution - yes. Geiger counter - not really.
That is if it was a nuke of course. I personally doubt it but when dealing with the military you can expect anything.
The idea of 2300 tons of this stuff on any one ship give me the willies. If it all went up at once, which by the descriptions it did, it would be the equivalent of a modern day medium sized tactical nuke.
That is not what should give you willies about this incident.
What should give you willies is that someone's miltary (british to be exact) has had no doubts about bring a ship with this cargo manifest into the middle of a city instead of unloading it offshore.
And methinks that there is a mistake in the reference. It was not benzol. It was nitrobenzol if I recall correctly. Which is also an explosive. All 35 tons of it. In barrels on the deck. They are actually what caught fire after the other ship (forgot the name) collided with the MonBlan. In other words there was not a single item of cargo on the manifest that was not explosive.
And the most interesting of it all. The cretinous idiot in the military who OKed the manifest for loading as well as the cretinous idiot who OKed bringing the ship into harbour were not ever considered at fault. The criminal procedings concentrated on the captain of the ship (who survived the incident by running like hell the moment it went on fire).
Back on the topic. It is possible that it was not a nuke in Chicago. Actually most likely that it was not. But knowing the military it might as well have been. They would have liked it to be. Good test. And good riddance to some pesky loading workers and privates ya know...
1. If this really was the case then it is in the lake.
2. From a NUKE you do not get a lot of residual radiation. The neutrons are under 14KEv so they cause minimal side reactions. So you get radiation from the blast and some from the fallout. But not a lot. An H bomb is an entirely different matter. It will generate a considerable quantity of radioactive isotopes in aything that happens to be close to the epicenter.
3. So 50 years later it will take you using some very serious gear to actually find if a small nuke was blown up.
No comments on the company as it happens to handle the stock options of one of my previous employers...
One comment on the sysadmin - cretinous moron. If he wanted make money on the options he should have been much more subtle. A sudden surge of damage makes everyone go to the backup tape rack. Everything is restored to pristine state in a day or so and the perpetrator is easily caught.
Compared to this slow corruption and small logical errors in the nth sign after the decimal are much harder to pinpoint and deal with. A similar case in germanyt a while ago operated for more then 5 years before negotiating a settlement. He did not even get caught.
Overall - what a greedy cretinous idiot. They should have fired him earlier for stupidity.
Once upon a time when I studied in the US I had a piece of shit from India very eager to become an American called Shriram Krisnhamurti accuse me of copying term papers from US students.
The accusation was enough.
I could not do a thing despite the fact that the only reason for similarity in the papers (in phylosophy of science) was overendulging in beer while scratching our brains over Xeno's paradoxes. Nothing illegal and nothing illicit (by that time we were over 21 and Xeno makes a better beer topic then football IMO). Go prove.
In the US education system the presumption of innocence does not exist. Has died a miserable death at least 40 years ago.
A top-notch staff and a world-class leader, I'm guessing, is significantly more expensive than your average software development team. Therefore, it ain't exactly cheap.
It is actually cheap compared to the usual practices especially in big companies (hiring 100 cretinoids to midlessly click and drag). The problem is that such teams are not a commodity readily available on the market. You cannot just go out and buy one. And they are hard to manage so the average PHB prefers the monkeys
The moderator who moded this down as troll is a redneck dubia hugging idiot.It is correct, to some extent on topic, in reply to the previous post and exactly what the rest of the world would do if they manifested dubia thinking. Thanks god they do not.
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And may the souls of every single president and congressman that has cut funds from the Space program in order to facilitate war and destruction burn in the lowest circle of hell.
After all the Shuttle was around 20 years old. So I guess we should all have expected and seen it coming.
As most typical americans you have a memeoryspan of 6 years +/-1. 10 years ago before Starbusck started there was not a single outfit selling drinkable coffee in the US besides one or two larger cities with big Italian colonies.
Ever tried to by an espresso in any Ohio city in the 80-es and the beginning of the 90'es? Compared to the brown-painted horse piss sold everywhere under the name Coffee Starbucks was and is salvation.
Note: I am not saying that their coffee is not shit, I am simply saying that it is considerable better then 99.9% of what was available before they came.
In the past, they have done several tests of their ICBMs in the Atlantic whithout notifying neither the Americans, nor the Brits. As a result quite a few people in NORAD, RAF and the Russian missile command have quite a few grey hairs more then usual.
Seeing a missile appear from nowhere off the Irish Coast and head across the Atlantic in the general Wahington direction is not funny. At all. Or at least neither the Russians nor the US and the UK found it funny in the past. Dunno about the French.
Ever seen what cavitation does to ship propellers? Go to a shipyard and have a look at a propeller that has been in service for 5-10 years.
After that you will think again about coolness and neetness of cavitation...
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Actually the city is right. Vehicles like the segway belong in the bicycle lane. They have no place on the sidewalk.
When you sod off the high school science and get to the university level one you start seeing how much of the stuff that is attributed to Edison is actually Tesla's.
Otherwise:
1. Cylinders instead of disks on the phonograph - dead on the money. Look at the old pictures from the first advertisements for the new gadget in the history books. See disks there? Nope. Not if Edisons name is mentioned anywhere close.
2. AC vs DC. Dead on the money as well. Dunno about him not understanding it but there is more then enough info about Westighouse out there and Tesla as well to confirm this.
3. Layers - dead on the money as well.
4. Also, as far as I know he was the first to invent the cubicle sweatshop for engineering. There are more then enough historical references that show how work in his labs was organised. He was the first person to hire engineers and designers in quantities instead of going for quality with a small design team the way people like Brunel, Eifel, etc did.
PA-RISC brings better support revenue. The support contracts are much higher for similar services. It is also more popular with telcos, banks, etc - people who buy and pay support contracts. On the contrary Alpha has been popular in the engineering market which usually does not even like paying for extended warranties. There are exemptions to this rule like older Nortel softswitches, BT, etc but they are not that many.
Overall, in the big wide world performance does not really matter when it comes to revenue in the big iron (unix or mainframe) market. What matters is the services and recurring revenue.
IBM has understood this long ago. HP understood it a while ago. DEC and then Compaq never caught up. And payed the ultimate price. Having better chips it lost to the people having a better (more profitable) business model
This one will be quieter then the usual. Smaller and less powerful fans becayue there is less cable clutter and less resistance to air. At the end it will depend what fans it uses but it has a better chance to be quiet then a normal spagetty case,
Are you stoned or something?
4.77, not 1. And it predates all laptops and the Imac by far. I have worked on one of these beasts once upon a time. It was a bit heavy to move arond but it was definitely the first ever portable PC. Long before Zenith did the first laptop.
Also, the thing here is the design idea, not the Mhz. Assuming the author of the original post referred to the Imac, this monster has seen the market after Mac classic so I guess Apple still holds the seniority here. And the Imac is nothing but Mac classic redux. Taking the idea that shot Apple into orbit and giving it another roll... And trying to make us all think that it is original. And different... B.Sh...
They were not the only ones.
There was someone else (forgot who) who actually had 3x3 vector ops and other stuff as well in a standard 387 package. So you could do the SIMD shit intel has been screaming about now 10 years ago. if you shelled out for the chip of course. It was not very expensive either...
Overall it was Weitek, AMD and that "someone else, forgot who" who had better FPUs then Intel.
Do you think that Finland is a village in Alabama or something? Finland is a civilised country. And as such it has data protection regulations and telecoms laws you have hardly dreamed of. In order to get to that data police need
- 1. A court warrant on a specific person
Germany and other EU countries have similar laws. There are exemptions of course. Like the UK.2. Having obtained the court warrant they can start recording only the specific subset they have been granted access to.
3. They have no access to any prior data except the last 60 days of billing (and nothing but billing).
4. Any non-billing data that can personally identify an individual may not be retained by the telecom operator and is immediately destroyed after operational use.
But overall, the police cannot get to any data of practical interest for the prosecution of minor misdemanors.
This is GSM, not CDMA. It has a limit on the timing advance which puts a well defined limit on the "remoteness". As a result people do not use directed antennas at all.
Not in Finland. They have plenty of precedents of telling the police to go screw themselves under similar circumstamnces. In other words they are a civilised country (civilised does not mean pleasant to live in, you should see their liquor prices).
Norwich union has been running a pilot in the UK for the last year or so. It has been fairly quiet about it though...
The first picture taken by a new speed camera recently installed in my town showed 106 mph in a 30 mph zone. That is 90 feet before a blind bend. I was wondering why the hell did they put it there as I have never been unable to accelerate in my GM "Astra Montana crawling coffin" to 30 mph in the space between the traffic lights and the camera but I guess that the pictures prove me wrong ;-)
So, never understimate how mad some people are...
This does not mean that I do not agree with you. I do. I will actually give an example: the more corrupt the country cops are the more they are into sitting with radar on the roads. Look at Europe. The likelihood of speedtraps grows linearly while going from West to East. If you get as far East as Bulgaria you can even see decoy traps and portable speed limit signs put into the most unexpected places to improve the coppers income.
They do. Though usually it is not the car that has had the tire blown out but the next one to hit the debris.
Have you ever seen the front of an average car let's say GM/Opel/Vauxhall Astra or Ford Focus after colliding with debris from a truck tire? I have (on a Focus). It is not a pretty sight... At 70 miles per hour it is a definite writeoff due to structural damage.
I still think that you need serious gear. Here is why:
Original site does not exist. It all went into the lake. That is besides the fact that the closest you can get to it is quite far away anyway.
So you are not going to get anywhere with a Geiger counter. Mass spectrometer and looking into oddities in isotop distribution - yes. Geiger counter - not really.
That is if it was a nuke of course. I personally doubt it but when dealing with the military you can expect anything.
That is not what should give you willies about this incident.
What should give you willies is that someone's miltary (british to be exact) has had no doubts about bring a ship with this cargo manifest into the middle of a city instead of unloading it offshore.
And methinks that there is a mistake in the reference. It was not benzol. It was nitrobenzol if I recall correctly. Which is also an explosive. All 35 tons of it. In barrels on the deck. They are actually what caught fire after the other ship (forgot the name) collided with the MonBlan. In other words there was not a single item of cargo on the manifest that was not explosive.
And the most interesting of it all. The cretinous idiot in the military who OKed the manifest for loading as well as the cretinous idiot who OKed bringing the ship into harbour were not ever considered at fault. The criminal procedings concentrated on the captain of the ship (who survived the incident by running like hell the moment it went on fire).
Back on the topic. It is possible that it was not a nuke in Chicago. Actually most likely that it was not. But knowing the military it might as well have been. They would have liked it to be. Good test. And good riddance to some pesky loading workers and privates ya know...
1. If this really was the case then it is in the lake.
2. From a NUKE you do not get a lot of residual radiation. The neutrons are under 14KEv so they cause minimal side reactions. So you get radiation from the blast and some from the fallout. But not a lot. An H bomb is an entirely different matter. It will generate a considerable quantity of radioactive isotopes in aything that happens to be close to the epicenter.
3. So 50 years later it will take you using some very serious gear to actually find if a small nuke was blown up.
Do you have a "backup nuclear reactor" to feed it though ;-)
No comments on the company as it happens to handle the stock options of one of my previous employers...
One comment on the sysadmin - cretinous moron. If he wanted make money on the options he should have been much more subtle. A sudden surge of damage makes everyone go to the backup tape rack. Everything is restored to pristine state in a day or so and the perpetrator is easily caught.
Compared to this slow corruption and small logical errors in the nth sign after the decimal are much harder to pinpoint and deal with. A similar case in germanyt a while ago operated for more then 5 years before negotiating a settlement. He did not even get caught.
Overall - what a greedy cretinous idiot. They should have fired him earlier for stupidity.
been there, been through that.
Once upon a time when I studied in the US I had a piece of shit from India very eager to become an American called Shriram Krisnhamurti accuse me of copying term papers from US students.
The accusation was enough.
I could not do a thing despite the fact that the only reason for similarity in the papers (in phylosophy of science) was overendulging in beer while scratching our brains over Xeno's paradoxes. Nothing illegal and nothing illicit (by that time we were over 21 and Xeno makes a better beer topic then football IMO). Go prove.
In the US education system the presumption of innocence does not exist. Has died a miserable death at least 40 years ago.
It is actually cheap compared to the usual practices especially in big companies (hiring 100 cretinoids to midlessly click and drag). The problem is that such teams are not a commodity readily available on the market. You cannot just go out and buy one. And they are hard to manage so the average PHB prefers the monkeys
I somehow do nopt remember Saddam in the war tribunal dock at Hague....
Or did you mean the specialist in ordering the shooting Afghan weddings and blowing up vehicles on the territorty of friendly states by drones?
The moderator who moded this down as troll is a redneck dubia hugging idiot.It is correct, to some extent on topic, in reply to the previous post and exactly what the rest of the world would do if they manifested dubia thinking. Thanks god they do not.