First, the title is like 'invisible unmanned aircraft'. I thought wait isnt a bullet exactly that only better?
Now if movement blurrs vision and makes it disappear, isnt it better to have more linear movement i.e. speed rather than spin the thing? Cruise missles are slow but still too fast for anyone to 'see' it and do anything about it.
This aircraft is a good demonstration of a theory, but I wouldnt recommend he patent it soon.
Somehow I dont get their complaints. Maybe I dont understand the Vista API...
Users buy click and install the 3rd party software. So the software gets control and can run and install as many hooks as it wishes. Win2k and WinXP didnt particularly 'provide' API just for antiviruses etc. It was the 3rd party software that was designed to change the OS to install itself and maybe replace parts like the firewall. Once the 3rd party app installation starts with enough permissions, its code is running in the CPU, has enough control to do anything.
Do they mean Vista has taken away admin rights? If thats true, thats too extreme and affects way more than just antivirus companies.
However the Internet speed has been stagnant here in Canada for the past 5 years at least. Just the standard ADSL and noone ever gets the 8Mbit download speed as advertised.
I dont think we'll ever reach 14Tbps while Bell is in power.
Shouldnt all the Atari games' copyright be over by now? If thats true, we can see a cheap single DVD with the emulation and all C64 and Atari 2600 games ever produced.
If it hasnt expired, can an expert here give us a year?
I was thinking of starting a company that LEASES computers, and you can swap your parts for new ones. It wont be cheap, but you'll always have the almost-latest parts.
Next to it will be a shop selling computers with slightly used parts.
Operating systems are fine. They just take processes and share them across cores.
Its the threads libraries and programming style of larger apps that matter. Say you have a basic Linux system with 4 cores. It will reasonably distribute processes across all 4. The problem is when a single process with multiple short-lived threads takes all the CPU power. Like games. Thats where funky compiler directives will be witnessed.
That will depend probably on the type of app. One with smaller tasks depending on each other, probably at 4 cores AMD will look good, else with linux kernel compilations where gcc takes its sweet time with each module, Intel will be better for now.
I just wonder if in place of the fat L2/L3 cache multimedia extensions, x64 and legacy components, if we just get MORE cores it will be better. The Ultrasparc T1 has good performance figures with oracle and the Cell sounds like a workhorse enough for IBM to release blades for it. What if we just get an x86 system with nothing above MMX, 512kb L2 shared and 16 cores? On a laptop you could disable cores for efficiency or go full blast with 16 processes running on their own cores (Basic WinXP alone has like 32 running processes so it'll still be slow).
Forget 'potential', MRAM is already there and even in production (although its expensive). It doesnt offer the same code density but its here now, and its reliability is more like DRAM than like flash.
Hear Hear. Google is calling for 12V standard? Google is stupid. Firstly any reasonably new device runs on either 3.3V or 1.8V (some even 0.9V). 12V is like calling for 1000V mains line. Its like WTF!!!.
I say the standard should be 3.3V. One high ampereage line for the disk drives, the rest at 3.3V low amperage not requiring transoformers or such. CPUs such as Core2Duo dont need much power anyway.
Hmmm. I learned what RISC is after that movie was created, but I learned you cannot say one is better than the other in any general sense.
But the movie was probably the only one ever that embodied the 'hacker' stereotype both as viewed by civilians and as viewed by naiive geeks.
Reminds me of salesguys I get calls from who just spew words like these to impress and sound techy. I do however admit that noone has ever said "Yeah CISC is good".
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I've seen plenty of older DC-10s DC-3s various fighters and even a 727 go up on sale (minus the armament). These babies should be sold to the civilians minus the phoenixes. Ones who can pay for its gas.
Portability to me means you can port it. It means someone gives me a set of hardware and I tell them yes I can port this to that.
In short, give me a 32-bit cpu with gcc support and I'll port 'Linux' to it. I agree that Linux will be more different from its RS6000 versions than NetBSD would be between its smallest and largest implementations. But I happen to have more in my toolbox. Just having more in the toolbox makes it tougher yet more possible to port.
Dont get me wrong, I've used NetBSD at many places and I understand and love the 'cleanliness' of BSD, the way things work as they should and the way its more rigidly standardized while one Linux can be unfairly different from another. But maybe its that flexibility that lets Linux get ported more and used in as many places from the same core sources (at least the kernel).
To answer your question, thats what I mean by 'portability'. Give me a BSD that will utilize the multiple cores of a PS3, run on a DOS file like UMSDOS on a win95 computer and will still run in 512kb ram and 512kb flash, and I'll tell you its more portable. Since NetBSD doesnt support as many devices one would expect it would be more flexible, as in run on non-MMU systems, allow XIP, scale to more processors, take less ram, compile using various compilers directly and allow kernel core structures to be swapped easily and readily like schedulers semapore structures security mechanisms etc. Under this definition, possibly unique to me, Linux is the most portable OS.
Its just not that predictable. There are things left to be done in the samba networking, fvwm95, file explorers, default app locations and the default set of drivers and packages in distros (think java, flash, firefox, vlanplayer etc).
It generally takes some work to get a current distro to look enough like the Win95 shell, and it still falls short.
But doing that is exactly what the world's grandmothers need to switch to Linux and push its market rediculously high.
Here's the deal. Make a distro that looks a heck lot like win98 (without the names for copyright reasons). Setup a GUI Windows Update system which 'updates' windows to Linux by keeping the user accounts (translating to pam of course) files, locations on the desktop and My Documents and keeping a list of equivalent apps (winamp=xmms, media player=vlanplayer office=openoffice etc) and even giving them similar icon colors. windows resize, right-click menus etc should look the same and even the IE cookies and favorites should be translated after being passed through an antispyware app of course.
I suspect this will take a huge chunk out of microsoft's current marketshare in one go, and THEN you can allow the users to do an update or switch to regular non-MS-copycat distros with prettier KDE graphics and the likes.
The only other alternative is to wait for reactos to mature up enough and frankly, that'll take too long.
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I fail to understand the utility of the aircraft.
First, the title is like 'invisible unmanned aircraft'. I thought wait isnt a bullet exactly that only better?
Now if movement blurrs vision and makes it disappear, isnt it better to have more linear movement i.e. speed rather than spin the thing? Cruise missles are slow but still too fast for anyone to 'see' it and do anything about it.
This aircraft is a good demonstration of a theory, but I wouldnt recommend he patent it soon.
How do you know the hardware exists?
Hey I have some magic too that you cant see, that will kill the terrorists. $1 million a pop. And I have the sole patents (pending).
Somehow I dont get their complaints. Maybe I dont understand the Vista API...
Users buy click and install the 3rd party software. So the software gets control and can run and install as many hooks as it wishes. Win2k and WinXP didnt particularly 'provide' API just for antiviruses etc. It was the 3rd party software that was designed to change the OS to install itself and maybe replace parts like the firewall. Once the 3rd party app installation starts with enough permissions, its code is running in the CPU, has enough control to do anything.
Do they mean Vista has taken away admin rights? If thats true, thats too extreme and affects way more than just antivirus companies.
Wow thats a long reason.
Given my laziness, can you give us an intermediate-sized reason?
Worry so much about the nitty gritty, I'm sure its a Computer Analist.
I remember 9600 being fast for the BBS servers.
However the Internet speed has been stagnant here in Canada for the past 5 years at least. Just the standard ADSL and noone ever gets the 8Mbit download speed as advertised.
I dont think we'll ever reach 14Tbps while Bell is in power.
And they'll realize why their parents were 40 when they were born.
What is PC World?
Shouldnt all the Atari games' copyright be over by now? If thats true, we can see a cheap single DVD with the emulation and all C64 and Atari 2600 games ever produced.
If it hasnt expired, can an expert here give us a year?
I was thinking of starting a company that LEASES computers, and you can swap your parts for new ones. It wont be cheap, but you'll always have the almost-latest parts.
Next to it will be a shop selling computers with slightly used parts.
(3) profit!!!
Operating systems are fine. They just take processes and share them across cores.
Its the threads libraries and programming style of larger apps that matter. Say you have a basic Linux system with 4 cores. It will reasonably distribute processes across all 4. The problem is when a single process with multiple short-lived threads takes all the CPU power. Like games. Thats where funky compiler directives will be witnessed.
That will depend probably on the type of app. One with smaller tasks depending on each other, probably at 4 cores AMD will look good, else with linux kernel compilations where gcc takes its sweet time with each module, Intel will be better for now.
I just wonder if in place of the fat L2/L3 cache multimedia extensions, x64 and legacy components, if we just get MORE cores it will be better. The Ultrasparc T1 has good performance figures with oracle and the Cell sounds like a workhorse enough for IBM to release blades for it. What if we just get an x86 system with nothing above MMX, 512kb L2 shared and 16 cores? On a laptop you could disable cores for efficiency or go full blast with 16 processes running on their own cores (Basic WinXP alone has like 32 running processes so it'll still be slow).
Well if you know where you leap from, you can never know how big the leap is.
Forget 'potential', MRAM is already there and even in production (although its expensive). It doesnt offer the same code density but its here now, and its reliability is more like DRAM than like flash.
It may damn well be a bit going back and forth between the big bang and big whimper, becoming each particle.
I forgot the theory's name.
Hear Hear. Google is calling for 12V standard? Google is stupid. Firstly any reasonably new device runs on either 3.3V or 1.8V (some even 0.9V). 12V is like calling for 1000V mains line. Its like WTF!!!.
I say the standard should be 3.3V. One high ampereage line for the disk drives, the rest at 3.3V low amperage not requiring transoformers or such. CPUs such as Core2Duo dont need much power anyway.
I cant think of a single IC that needs 12V
"Yeah RISC is good"
Hmmm. I learned what RISC is after that movie was created, but I learned you cannot say one is better than the other in any general sense.
But the movie was probably the only one ever that embodied the 'hacker' stereotype both as viewed by civilians and as viewed by naiive geeks.
Reminds me of salesguys I get calls from who just spew words like these to impress and sound techy. I do however admit that noone has ever said "Yeah CISC is good".
What if in the rectum, the robot gets stuck in a loop and climbs all the way up and pops into your mouth?
I say the OS for this thing better be reliable.
An Iranian woman interested in guns and pyrotechnics...
I thought muslims were strictly forbidden to do that in America.
Maybe now theres a sleeper cell in the ISS.
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/proʊˈkyʊr, prə-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[proh-kyoor, pruh-]
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pro‧cure 
3. to obtain (a person) for the purpose of prostitution.
-verb (used without object)
4. to act as a procurer or pimp.
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Stunning! The Lewinsky fees are high.
I've seen plenty of older DC-10s DC-3s various fighters and even a 727 go up on sale (minus the armament). These babies should be sold to the civilians minus the phoenixes. Ones who can pay for its gas.
I'll just wait for the F-16 to be retired.
The $$ number sounds high for the enemy bogeys shot down. But one should also count the enemies NOT shot down because they didnt even engage.
Guess how many enemy aircraft violated american airspace during those years?
Wow. That sounds like a B50 server at that size.
Linux is powering smaller and smaller devices.
I'm counting the days before Linux Inc can power a single MCU on its own.
Portability to me means you can port it. It means someone gives me a set of hardware and I tell them yes I can port this to that.
In short, give me a 32-bit cpu with gcc support and I'll port 'Linux' to it. I agree that Linux will be more different from its RS6000 versions than NetBSD would be between its smallest and largest implementations. But I happen to have more in my toolbox. Just having more in the toolbox makes it tougher yet more possible to port.
Dont get me wrong, I've used NetBSD at many places and I understand and love the 'cleanliness' of BSD, the way things work as they should and the way its more rigidly standardized while one Linux can be unfairly different from another. But maybe its that flexibility that lets Linux get ported more and used in as many places from the same core sources (at least the kernel).
To answer your question, thats what I mean by 'portability'. Give me a BSD that will utilize the multiple cores of a PS3, run on a DOS file like UMSDOS on a win95 computer and will still run in 512kb ram and 512kb flash, and I'll tell you its more portable. Since NetBSD doesnt support as many devices one would expect it would be more flexible, as in run on non-MMU systems, allow XIP, scale to more processors, take less ram, compile using various compilers directly and allow kernel core structures to be swapped easily and readily like schedulers semapore structures security mechanisms etc. Under this definition, possibly unique to me, Linux is the most portable OS.
Its just not that predictable. There are things left to be done in the samba networking, fvwm95, file explorers, default app locations and the default set of drivers and packages in distros (think java, flash, firefox, vlanplayer etc).
It generally takes some work to get a current distro to look enough like the Win95 shell, and it still falls short.
But doing that is exactly what the world's grandmothers need to switch to Linux and push its market rediculously high.
Here's the deal. Make a distro that looks a heck lot like win98 (without the names for copyright reasons). Setup a GUI Windows Update system which 'updates' windows to Linux by keeping the user accounts (translating to pam of course) files, locations on the desktop and My Documents and keeping a list of equivalent apps (winamp=xmms, media player=vlanplayer office=openoffice etc) and even giving them similar icon colors. windows resize, right-click menus etc should look the same and even the IE cookies and favorites should be translated after being passed through an antispyware app of course.
I suspect this will take a huge chunk out of microsoft's current marketshare in one go, and THEN you can allow the users to do an update or switch to regular non-MS-copycat distros with prettier KDE graphics and the likes.
The only other alternative is to wait for reactos to mature up enough and frankly, that'll take too long.