From http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/07/14/harry. potter/index.html>here: And Rowling, who a decade ago was an unemployed single mother writing the first Potter book in an Edinburgh café, is now believed to be the richest woman in Britain, worth an estimated $1 billion.
From : And Rowling, who a decade ago was an unemployed single mother writing the first Potter book in an Edinburgh café, is now believed to be the richest woman in Britain, worth an estimated $1 billion.
How wealthy is the queen? According to , Elizabeth is one of the wealthiest women in the world, with a net worth of $818 million in 2004, according to Forbes magazine.
Write a few books, hire the right agent, birth a 20th/21st century phenomenon, and be richer than the queen.
Kernels also crash from drivers causing the hardware to do Very Bad Things. The USB driver can DMA a mouse packet right over the scheduler code or page tables, and there isn't a damn thing that memory protection can do about it. CRASH, big time. A driver can put a device into some weird state where it locks up the PCI bus. Say bye-bye
What if the USB driver
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DMA a mouse packet over scheduler code (which ought to be read-only at the MMU) or the MMU's page table.
That is what Tannenbaum's research is asking. Can such a system be built? Does it perform? What are the tradeoffs? Does the end result offer enough benefits (reliability and security) to overcome the costs (performance)?
sealing off the compartments only to discover that water can overflow the top of one compartment and fill up the next.
Wasn't there a ship that had this flaw? "Unsinkable", because of the compartments, but it sank, because the compartments weren't isolated from each other enough.
You need to think carefully about a few words. Like "time" and "beginning". "What came before the big bang" is a lot like asking what is north of 90 degrees lattitude on the earth.
Think of the graphs y = ln( x), y = x, and y = exp( x). To change from one to the next, you transform x into ln( x). In other words, measure time with a different clock. In the third case, y has a finite minimum value: 0. In the first and second cases, it doesn't.
The universe can also be finite (i.e. having a measurable size) but unbounded (not having any "edges"). How long is a circle?
I've been a big fan of Steve Jackson's creativity since I compared Melee to the combat system in Basic D&D almost thirty years ago.
But I haven't done much more than collect books since I got married the first time... Supporting a wife and a house and a child doesn't leave much time... and I'm away from all my friends who used to game...
John Sculley, the Pepsi executive that Steve Jobs recruited to run Apple, is kind of credited with a string of "bad luck" that saw Apple's revenues fall precipitously from $1 Billion/year to a disappointing $10 Billion/year. After that, things got a bit rocky.
John Sculley was replaced by "Diesel" Mike Spindler, who oversaw the transition to the PowerPC processor. Spindler was replaced by Gil Amelio. Gil brought Steve Jobs back.
I just attended an event at a local college, where a documentary (on Cuba and Cubans since Castro) was shown. Some of it was filmed in high-definition, and some footage was older. They had some fancy Sony projector device, where it was a cinematic experience.
HD looks way better than standard definition.
Compare a 640x480 image with a 1920x1080 image, and tell me again you can't tell the difference.
In addition to the folklore.org site, note that Apple paid Xerox for the rights to use their ideas (options on 100,000 shares at $10/share, a split or two ago...)
Many cars have governors in the engine/transmission control systems to enforce the speed rating on the tires. Tires with speed rating S or T are much cheaper than tires rated Z.
To enforce speed limits, imagine the engine computer integrated with Google Maps and GPS. On-board navigation systems are available already. It "knows" where you are, and looks up what the speed limit is, from the on-board DVD or (eventually) from a download.
Get a domain, set up a server, advertise, take some pictures that customers will pay to see, post pictures on the server, and if you're running things correctly, Profit!.
I'm very conservative on fiscal matters. That's why I've been voting D. When a Republican sits in the oval office, deficits go up. When a Democrat runs the White House, deficits go down. It's been that way for over a quarter of a century.
"To Prove" means different things in mathematics and in science. In mathematics a proof is absolute, eternal, and contingent on stated axioms. A theorem that has been proven is true, given that its axioms are true.
In science, proof means "supported by evidence to such an extent that to withhold provisional assent would be perverse". Both stronger and weaker than mathematical proof; stronger in that no axioms are required, weaker because new evidence may be discovered.
Evolution, in the sense of the 3+ Billion year history of life on earth, is as proven as any statement about the real world can be. It is incomplete, but enough of the overall shape of that history is known that some startling predictions can be, and have been, verified by finding new fossils of old creatures to fill in the gaps. This is "Evolution, the fact."
Evolution, in the sense of the mechanisms that account for what we see in the history of life, and in ongoing behavior of living things, ranks with the standard model in physics and the periodic table in chemistry as fundamental explanations of the nature of the universe. This is "Evolution, the theory."
When I upgraded my phone (and my wife's phone... she was the real driver, and had used up the battery in her old phone) last summer, the cheapest option for us was a pair of camera phones.
The cheapest option for the consumer frequently wins. Look at PC-DOS.
Anyway, do you think this make me right left center and how much of this do you agree with you?
You don't say how you feel about Republican hot-button issues like Privacy (do you like the legislature telling doctors what they can tell their patients? Do you like the legislature telling you is is appropriate for you to love?)
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What degree of "fan out" do you need to go from one to 6 billion in six easy steps?
Fans of Douglas Adams rejoice: 42. And a little bit.
It's not giving money away if you give a little to get a lot.
$50,000 campaign contribution to the Republicans turns around into a $50,000,000 contract.
That link didn't work, either. :-(
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Take two.
From http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/07/14/harry
And Rowling, who a decade ago was an unemployed single mother writing the first Potter book in an Edinburgh café, is now believed to be the richest woman in Britain, worth an estimated $1 billion.
How wealthy is the queen? According to http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:hCD9IDK9MJAJ:
Write a few books, hire the right agent, birth a 20th/21st century phenomenon, and be richer than the queen.
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And Rowling, who a decade ago was an unemployed single mother writing the first Potter book in an Edinburgh café, is now believed to be the richest woman in Britain, worth an estimated $1 billion.
How wealthy is the queen? According to , Elizabeth is one of the wealthiest women in the world, with a net worth of $818 million in 2004, according to Forbes magazine.
Write a few books, hire the right agent, birth a 20th/21st century phenomenon, and be richer than the queen.
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DMA a mouse packet over scheduler code (which ought to be read-only at the MMU) or the MMU's page table.That is what Tannenbaum's research is asking. Can such a system be built? Does it perform? What are the tradeoffs? Does the end result offer enough benefits (reliability and security) to overcome the costs (performance)?
sealing off the compartments only to discover that water can overflow the top of one compartment and fill up the next.
Wasn't there a ship that had this flaw? "Unsinkable", because of the compartments, but it sank, because the compartments weren't isolated from each other enough.
You need to think carefully about a few words. Like "time" and "beginning". "What came before the big bang" is a lot like asking what is north of 90 degrees lattitude on the earth.
Think of the graphs y = ln( x), y = x, and y = exp( x). To change from one to the next, you transform x into ln( x). In other words, measure time with a different clock. In the third case, y has a finite minimum value: 0. In the first and second cases, it doesn't.
The universe can also be finite (i.e. having a measurable size) but unbounded (not having any "edges"). How long is a circle?
The members of the EC are sent by their state governments... unless it's 2000, in which case the Supreme Court gets to butt in.
George III is as George III does.
He has asserted the authority to change the plain text of any law that Congress presents to him, in signing statements.
He has asserted the authority to waive parts of the Bill of Rights: habeas corpus
I've been a big fan of Steve Jackson's creativity since I compared Melee to the combat system in Basic D&D almost thirty years ago.
But I haven't done much more than collect books since I got married the first time... Supporting a wife and a house and a child doesn't leave much time... and I'm away from all my friends who used to game...
It's the middle-aged geek's lament.
Jean-Louis Gasse? Father of the expandible Mac? Founder of Be?
I have no idea what he is up to these days.
John Sculley, the Pepsi executive that Steve Jobs recruited to run Apple, is kind of credited with a string of "bad luck" that saw Apple's revenues fall precipitously from $1 Billion/year to a disappointing $10 Billion/year. After that, things got a bit rocky.
John Sculley was replaced by "Diesel" Mike Spindler, who oversaw the transition to the PowerPC processor. Spindler was replaced by Gil Amelio. Gil brought Steve Jobs back.
In October 2000, Apple introduced the iMac DV. 400 MHz g3 processor, 128 MiB RAM, 10 (or 13) GB HD, DVD-ROM, Rage 128 graphics chip on an integrated 15" 1024x768 CRT display. USB, FireWire, and EtherNet. $1,300 (US) retail.
So the machine they're selling has roughly the same power is machine was entry-level 6 years ago; they're selling it for a tenth of the cost.
Yes, this is enough power to process documents, surf the web, and play some older 3D games (Marathon, anyone?).
I would almost certainly prefer 720p to 1080i, and 1080p to 1600i.
Interlace is bad, bad, bad.
I just attended an event at a local college, where a documentary (on Cuba and Cubans since Castro) was shown. Some of it was filmed in high-definition, and some footage was older. They had some fancy Sony projector device, where it was a cinematic experience.
HD looks way better than standard definition.
Compare a 640x480 image with a 1920x1080 image, and tell me again you can't tell the difference.
Blue has a shorter wavelength than red. Hence, higher frequency, and able to distinguish smaller spots.
But more easily scattered by dust, which is why the sky is blue.
In addition to the folklore.org site, note that Apple paid Xerox for the rights to use their ideas (options on 100,000 shares at $10/share, a split or two ago...)
Many cars have governors in the engine/transmission control systems to enforce the speed rating on the tires. Tires with speed rating S or T are much cheaper than tires rated Z.
To enforce speed limits, imagine the engine computer integrated with Google Maps and GPS. On-board navigation systems are available already. It "knows" where you are, and looks up what the speed limit is, from the on-board DVD or (eventually) from a download.
Get a domain, set up a server, advertise, take some pictures that customers will pay to see, post pictures on the server, and if you're running things correctly, Profit!.
I'm very conservative on fiscal matters. That's why I've been voting D. When a Republican sits in the oval office, deficits go up. When a Democrat runs the White House, deficits go down. It's been that way for over a quarter of a century.
They didn't find a missing link. Now that they've found the fossils, they are no longer missing! Unless someone loses them. :-(
What they have done, though, is to create two new gaps.
"To Prove" means different things in mathematics and in science. In mathematics a proof is absolute, eternal, and contingent on stated axioms. A theorem that has been proven is true, given that its axioms are true.
In science, proof means "supported by evidence to such an extent that to withhold provisional assent would be perverse". Both stronger and weaker than mathematical proof; stronger in that no axioms are required, weaker because new evidence may be discovered.
Evolution, in the sense of the 3+ Billion year history of life on earth, is as proven as any statement about the real world can be. It is incomplete, but enough of the overall shape of that history is known that some startling predictions can be, and have been, verified by finding new fossils of old creatures to fill in the gaps. This is "Evolution, the fact."
Evolution, in the sense of the mechanisms that account for what we see in the history of life, and in ongoing behavior of living things, ranks with the standard model in physics and the periodic table in chemistry as fundamental explanations of the nature of the universe. This is "Evolution, the theory."
When I upgraded my phone (and my wife's phone... she was the real driver, and had used up the battery in her old phone) last summer, the cheapest option for us was a pair of camera phones.
The cheapest option for the consumer frequently wins. Look at PC-DOS.