I've seen it done. Fits quite well in the two top bays with (I presume... it's been a while since I've seen it) a hole cut in the top of the PC case to access the disk door. And the case even had a Nintendo theme to it, Mario I think.
The extra speed makes it possible to consider moving a server's RAM a few feet from its CPUs
Sure it has the bandwidth, but have you tried calculating the speed of light into that? Long ago I saw part of an interview with Grace Hopper, and she held up a six-inch piece of wire. She explained that the piece of wire represented a nanosecond delay. Now admittedly electricity usually only travels at about 0.5c, IIRC, but I think she was giving the speed-of-light delay, not the speed-of-electrons delay. I'm also not including any propagation delays in the optic transmitter and reciever. Also, the delays are doubled because the CPU has to request what data needs to be sent, and that has to arrive at the memory before the memory can send the data.
"A few feet"? Let's say 3 feet. That means 3 feet times 2 directions times 2 nanoseconds per foot, for a total of 12 nanoseconds, maybe a little better if you can make page requests. I remember back in the early '90s, RAM speeds were in the range of 60-80ns for plain old fast-page DRAM.
You can deal with relativistic propagation delays for secondary storage, but not for primary storage.
Except that the FCC has no power (har har) over this matter. They exist to regulate telecommunications, such as radio frequency broadcasts and the telephone system. The only thing they have any control over in such a device is to ensure that it doesn't have excessive RFI emissions.
All those curves in the artist rendering... whoever would be driving the "bus" wouldn't be able to see what's on the street for at least 30 feet in front. I think the model's design is a lot more practical.
Still, I can't help but thinking "what could possibly go wrong" about this whole idea. It looks like they want to straddle 2 lanes of a road which has 4 lanes in each direction. I can imagine someone trying to zip across the lanes to pass in front of this thing and causing a collision.
Sounds to me like this could also give a ban to someone who had bad RAM. One bit wrong in an area that gets a signature check and you're gone. Doesn't even have to be bad RAM, if a cosmic ray flips a bit.
FFXI is probably be a much better choice than WoW. WoW is pretty casual compared to FFXI, though FFXI has slowly been adding things to make it require a little less hardcore. In WoW, "raids" are the reason to get people together, but a signifcant amount of FFXI content still requires a group of 6 or more to get anything done, and if it's "old" content, you have to rely on what you can get in a pick-up group.
However, the recent update just nerfed the worst offender, the Chains of Promathia missions, where all 6 people had to be on their A-game for 2-4 hours to get through many of the fights. Now as long as you have level 75+ characters available, you can duo through all but the last few fights. I had just finished them all about 2 weeks before the update, and I think it helped me a lot in terms of getting organized to get a job done.
This is different from golf. In golf, it's about who you play with, meeting people who know other people. In MMOs, it's about what you have to do to get things done, whether dealing with a grind or with whiny people, cheaters (including ninja lotters), or whatever.
Although the initial version of Quickdraw had color support, it was really primitive and (IIRC) only supported a total of 8 colors. However, due to the way that a printer worked by intercepting Quickdraw callbacks, it's no surprise that a printer driver could identify Mac Draw fill patterns and translate those to colors.
It wouldn't have been possible in Mac Paint, though, because everything was flattened to a plain bitmap.
It helped that Apple used a UCSD variant of the language, which was a lot more practical to use than "standard" Pascal. The most important thing was "units", which let you break up programs into modules with separate header files. They later implemented Object Pascal, which made use of the Macintosh Memory Manager's ability for relocatable memory objects (handles).
Then Borland goes and (IMHO with two college students over a summer break) re-implements it in a C++ sort of way for TP6 because their memory allocator was crap, due in large part to the 8088's segmented memory model and the infamous 640k limit. After having used proper Object Pascal (TML's version, as MPW was too expensive for me at the time), I was shocked that they would make such a poor imitation. It is no surprise that Next and then 90's Apple went with the Smalltalk-inspired Objective C over C++.
To lie about something, you have to know that it is not true at the time you say it. At the time, all the indications were that Saddam did have WMDs.
However, I think that either Saddam really wanted everyone to think he had WMDs when he didn't, or more likely, he thought he did, and all Saddam's people were lying to him to cover up that they didn't have anything after all, whether due to fraud (spending the money on something else) or because they really couldn't get them. And because Saddam thought he had the WMDs, the intelligence agencies were duped into thinking he actually did. Then it was simply a matter of the bullshit floating to the top.
"6. Bush went AWOL" True.
Is that the thing that CBS and Dan Rather went on about, allegedly a typewritten document from the '70s, that turned out to be a 100% graphic match for something printed in a standard proportional font from Microsoft Word? And once that was pointed out, it instantly and completely vanished from the news cycle?
I think you missed the part about the pinpad being "potted in epoxy". That includes the back of the keypad being the bottom of the potting. You're not going to be able to identify the keys being pressed through an inch thick block of epoxy.
"sucky"? Is that all you can say about it? It means you can't trust them not to remove a random feature from the PS4 if they decide they don't like it any more.
I used to write code that talked to gas pumps, and I can tell you that most pumps take the same key for the printer door, a different same key for the terminal (Gilbarco CRIND/Wayne CAT) door, and I think another same key for the pump control door. That's the same keys for the entire model run of a pump, and maybe for more than one model, unless maybe a big oil chain installs a different same key. Even then, they're those round locks like the ones that some laptop cables use that can be picked with a part from a Bic pen. (Presumably they're better made than the laptop cable locks.)
The card data is sent up to the station's control computer directly, usually both track 1 and track 2 data. I don't think it would be hard to insert a skimmer behind the door, whether a second mag reader head, or just splice the wires from the card reader. Or even rig the station control computer if you have access to that. (For that matter, all the card numbers may end up in a log file on that computer.)
There's not much danger of a pin pad skimmer, however, because in the US, PINs are protected by each pinpad having a master key injected into RAM before shipping to the site. They are potted in epoxy and have a memory kill switch if you attempt to open them. This works differently from the European system, which is why the US hasn't had to go to "chip and pin". The PIN is encrypted in the pad, the pinpad's serial number is attached, and the result is only decrypted by the card clearing house computers, which have a list of all the decryption keys. Even if the guy who ran the station was doing the skimming, debit PINs couldn't be skimmed and still work properly. But that's just debit. Credit cards don't have a PIN.
So unlike ATM skimmers, they could definitely hide the skimmer behind the door, but they would still need a camera of some sort to capture the PINs. Fortunately most gas pump terminals have a relatively flat front, so they can't just hide the camera on a different part of the panel.
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Common, give me a brake hear.
The usual diff patch tells you what's in the lines being deleted/changed.
tl;dr: You can hide your weed in there!
GameCube inside a PC Case
I've seen it done. Fits quite well in the two top bays with (I presume... it's been a while since I've seen it) a hole cut in the top of the PC case to access the disk door. And the case even had a Nintendo theme to it, Mario I think.
And people who indent with both (4 spaces, tab, tab + 4 spaces, 2 tabs, etc.) should be thrown into the nearest black hole.
The extra speed makes it possible to consider moving a server's RAM a few feet from its CPUs
Sure it has the bandwidth, but have you tried calculating the speed of light into that? Long ago I saw part of an interview with Grace Hopper, and she held up a six-inch piece of wire. She explained that the piece of wire represented a nanosecond delay. Now admittedly electricity usually only travels at about 0.5c, IIRC, but I think she was giving the speed-of-light delay, not the speed-of-electrons delay. I'm also not including any propagation delays in the optic transmitter and reciever. Also, the delays are doubled because the CPU has to request what data needs to be sent, and that has to arrive at the memory before the memory can send the data.
"A few feet"? Let's say 3 feet. That means 3 feet times 2 directions times 2 nanoseconds per foot, for a total of 12 nanoseconds, maybe a little better if you can make page requests. I remember back in the early '90s, RAM speeds were in the range of 60-80ns for plain old fast-page DRAM.
You can deal with relativistic propagation delays for secondary storage, but not for primary storage.
Except that the FCC has no power (har har) over this matter. They exist to regulate telecommunications, such as radio frequency broadcasts and the telephone system. The only thing they have any control over in such a device is to ensure that it doesn't have excessive RFI emissions.
Why is it that the British don't pronounce the "u" in "colour"?
And this is hardly new.
Now zoom in...
All those curves in the artist rendering... whoever would be driving the "bus" wouldn't be able to see what's on the street for at least 30 feet in front. I think the model's design is a lot more practical.
Still, I can't help but thinking "what could possibly go wrong" about this whole idea. It looks like they want to straddle 2 lanes of a road which has 4 lanes in each direction. I can imagine someone trying to zip across the lanes to pass in front of this thing and causing a collision.
Sounds to me like this could also give a ban to someone who had bad RAM. One bit wrong in an area that gets a signature check and you're gone. Doesn't even have to be bad RAM, if a cosmic ray flips a bit.
Better run that memtest86 NOW.
FFXI is probably be a much better choice than WoW. WoW is pretty casual compared to FFXI, though FFXI has slowly been adding things to make it require a little less hardcore. In WoW, "raids" are the reason to get people together, but a signifcant amount of FFXI content still requires a group of 6 or more to get anything done, and if it's "old" content, you have to rely on what you can get in a pick-up group.
However, the recent update just nerfed the worst offender, the Chains of Promathia missions, where all 6 people had to be on their A-game for 2-4 hours to get through many of the fights. Now as long as you have level 75+ characters available, you can duo through all but the last few fights. I had just finished them all about 2 weeks before the update, and I think it helped me a lot in terms of getting organized to get a job done.
This is different from golf. In golf, it's about who you play with, meeting people who know other people. In MMOs, it's about what you have to do to get things done, whether dealing with a grind or with whiny people, cheaters (including ninja lotters), or whatever.
I see a great need for a UAV-mounted Jiffy Pop module.
It is a moral imperative.
Although the initial version of Quickdraw had color support, it was really primitive and (IIRC) only supported a total of 8 colors. However, due to the way that a printer worked by intercepting Quickdraw callbacks, it's no surprise that a printer driver could identify Mac Draw fill patterns and translate those to colors.
It wouldn't have been possible in Mac Paint, though, because everything was flattened to a plain bitmap.
It helped that Apple used a UCSD variant of the language, which was a lot more practical to use than "standard" Pascal. The most important thing was "units", which let you break up programs into modules with separate header files. They later implemented Object Pascal, which made use of the Macintosh Memory Manager's ability for relocatable memory objects (handles).
Then Borland goes and (IMHO with two college students over a summer break) re-implements it in a C++ sort of way for TP6 because their memory allocator was crap, due in large part to the 8088's segmented memory model and the infamous 640k limit. After having used proper Object Pascal (TML's version, as MPW was too expensive for me at the time), I was shocked that they would make such a poor imitation. It is no surprise that Next and then 90's Apple went with the Smalltalk-inspired Objective C over C++.
You're doing it wrong.
In Soviet Russia, grid disrupts YOU.
"2. Bush lied about WMDs" True.
To lie about something, you have to know that it is not true at the time you say it. At the time, all the indications were that Saddam did have WMDs.
However, I think that either Saddam really wanted everyone to think he had WMDs when he didn't, or more likely, he thought he did, and all Saddam's people were lying to him to cover up that they didn't have anything after all, whether due to fraud (spending the money on something else) or because they really couldn't get them. And because Saddam thought he had the WMDs, the intelligence agencies were duped into thinking he actually did. Then it was simply a matter of the bullshit floating to the top.
"6. Bush went AWOL" True.
Is that the thing that CBS and Dan Rather went on about, allegedly a typewritten document from the '70s, that turned out to be a 100% graphic match for something printed in a standard proportional font from Microsoft Word? And once that was pointed out, it instantly and completely vanished from the news cycle?
I think you missed the part about the pinpad being "potted in epoxy". That includes the back of the keypad being the bottom of the potting. You're not going to be able to identify the keys being pressed through an inch thick block of epoxy.
So now they're going to be carrying around level_upper.mp3 on their iZunes?
"sucky"? Is that all you can say about it? It means you can't trust them not to remove a random feature from the PS4 if they decide they don't like it any more.
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I used to write code that talked to gas pumps, and I can tell you that most pumps take the same key for the printer door, a different same key for the terminal (Gilbarco CRIND/Wayne CAT) door, and I think another same key for the pump control door. That's the same keys for the entire model run of a pump, and maybe for more than one model, unless maybe a big oil chain installs a different same key. Even then, they're those round locks like the ones that some laptop cables use that can be picked with a part from a Bic pen. (Presumably they're better made than the laptop cable locks.)
The card data is sent up to the station's control computer directly, usually both track 1 and track 2 data. I don't think it would be hard to insert a skimmer behind the door, whether a second mag reader head, or just splice the wires from the card reader. Or even rig the station control computer if you have access to that. (For that matter, all the card numbers may end up in a log file on that computer.)
There's not much danger of a pin pad skimmer, however, because in the US, PINs are protected by each pinpad having a master key injected into RAM before shipping to the site. They are potted in epoxy and have a memory kill switch if you attempt to open them. This works differently from the European system, which is why the US hasn't had to go to "chip and pin". The PIN is encrypted in the pad, the pinpad's serial number is attached, and the result is only decrypted by the card clearing house computers, which have a list of all the decryption keys. Even if the guy who ran the station was doing the skimming, debit PINs couldn't be skimmed and still work properly. But that's just debit. Credit cards don't have a PIN.
So unlike ATM skimmers, they could definitely hide the skimmer behind the door, but they would still need a camera of some sort to capture the PINs. Fortunately most gas pump terminals have a relatively flat front, so they can't just hide the camera on a different part of the panel.
And that's Over Nine Thousand, and that's a lot!