If you use a service like Iridium or Globalstar then you're dealing with LEO sat's which have much lower latency. They are probably only about 500km away.
Unfortunately i've never seen a data service faster than 9600 on an LEO satelite - you'd struggle to get any VoIP over that.
Given the huge per minute charges it'd make more sense just to use their phone service.
North Korea is selling nuclear technology around the world. What could threaten us more than that?
Even if they were, and i believe you are probably thinking of pakistan or some former russian state, surely that would be, by definition, an indirect threat.
Perhaps if you look at the really highly radioactive stuff, but they are scraping tons of earth up from a decomissioned nuke factory near me. That's all nuclear waste, even if it's fairly low hazard.
I was working when a computer near me literally exploded.
It was a 486, running with it's case off, and it had probably been on for months if not years straight. Suddely there's a loud bang, a bright flash and a lot of smoke.
What we decided happened was that the motherboard must have slowly heated up and melted around the power connector. Finally this hit a critical point and the connector shorted against the bottom of the case.
Old school power supplies were pretty well made and this must have delivered it's rated amperage, which in turn generated enough heat to vaporise a two inch hole in the mobo.
That made quite a bit of smoke, and more ominously took out the little cadmium rechargable that kept the bios alive.
We kept that area of the lab vacated for the rest of the day.
While this is a worthy achievement, and will certainly ease a lot of fears about third world countries operating reactors.
Unfortunately these reactors will still produce quite a bit of waste, and will still need to be decomissioned. Given how poorly the western world handles these issues, i can't imagine how well it'll be done elsewhere...
You should be able to trade your time for their time. Particularly if you can find people that have skills you don't have.
I know people who can easily fix a leaking pipe or lend me some decent power tools, but have no clue about computers... getting on their good side can save you a bunch of money at a later point.
It does still add up to quite a big of context-switching. On the x86 arch it's fairly expensive to switch between processes, and even if your actual processes arent' doing a whole lot the chances are that they are polling something that'll need to invoke a switch a few times a second.
Generally (at least on my less used windows box) i have most of the following running most of the time....
1) VoIP Client 2) Messaging Client 3) Word Processor 4) Multiple Web Browsers 5) Email Client 6) Probably some graphics or photo editing tool 7) Something playing music
In addition there are various other background processes like desktop indexing, things watching for my digital camera being plugged in, smart start stuff...
Linux is probably worse since i keep Apache and often Tomcat running all the time.
Back in the day, this was never how it was done. You'd optimize config.sys to get the absolute max amount of free conventional memory.
Multitasking has improved to the point that many users probably run close to 100 processes at any point in time..
prstat here says i'm on a system with Total: 3741 processes, 6739 lwps
Fair enough it's a shared box, but that scale was impossible a decade ago.
I'd be very wary about putting in a flashing fish icon. Mostly because phishermen would be able to test their urls to find out if they've managed to make one that doesn't match the phishing profile.
Then users would think "well the fish didn't flash so i'll be safe".
Slashdot Mirror
Every Metro network i've used has been called a Metropolitan Area Network... it allows far more creative naming like FaTMAN :)
That's only true of geostat satelites.
If you use a service like Iridium or Globalstar then you're dealing with LEO sat's which have much lower latency. They are probably only about 500km away.
Unfortunately i've never seen a data service faster than 9600 on an LEO satelite - you'd struggle to get any VoIP over that.
Given the huge per minute charges it'd make more sense just to use their phone service.
Would this new strain of HIV be infectious?
I'd presume it'd have to be. It must reproduce inside the body to hunt down and kill the cancer.
It'd probably also be a hard thing to sell, if you could get it by screwing someone else who had it.
Back when overture.com used to tell you how much a sponsored link was for they would run at about $5-$10 a piece.
:)
I had a script go do a search on an overture partner site every hour for a year and a half and click most of the links each time.
Assuming they paid up, it must have cost the spam industry $100k+
North Korea is selling nuclear technology around the world. What could threaten us more than that?
Even if they were, and i believe you are probably thinking of pakistan or some former russian state, surely that would be, by definition, an indirect threat.
It's not like you can just buy U238 at a 7-11 alongside the mountain dew.
It's easy to forget the massive effort that went into creating the first few bombs.
However once you've got the infrastructure to do, then you can keep at it... so it's pretty scary if NK does.
Interestingly www.demon.net change from their devil tail insignia to a halo. They are one of the UK's bigger and oldest isps.
Just go to google and search for
"1500000mph / c"
I still maintain that it's 0.002c or 0.2% of the speed of light
Am i missing something?
They are only moving a 0.002c. I can't be bothered doing the calculations but it's probably not significant.
Presumably if it's leaving our galaxy then that'd be the normal way to look at it.
Alternatively maybe it's staying still and we are being flung away from it at 1.5M mph.
The thing is is that I know people who can fix plumbing problems.
:)
I also know that i'll probably have a plumbing problem in the next few years.
Therefore i can be selective about providing tech support to people who have something to return.
Plus, unless you already do consulting (and i do), it will greatly complicate your tax return for a little extra income.
Furthermore it's not really bartering, there's no specific arrangement. It's just a case of helping out a friend when you know they can help you out
to take regular backups, then they shouldn't need the EFFs tool to wipe logs.
Not a chance.
Perhaps if you look at the really highly radioactive stuff, but they are scraping tons of earth up from a decomissioned nuke factory near me. That's all nuclear waste, even if it's fairly low hazard.
I was working when a computer near me literally exploded.
It was a 486, running with it's case off, and it had probably been on for months if not years straight. Suddely there's a loud bang, a bright flash and a lot of smoke.
What we decided happened was that the motherboard must have slowly heated up and melted around the power connector. Finally this hit a critical point and the connector shorted against the bottom of the case.
Old school power supplies were pretty well made and this must have delivered it's rated amperage, which in turn generated enough heat to vaporise a two inch hole in the mobo.
That made quite a bit of smoke, and more ominously took out the little cadmium rechargable that kept the bios alive.
We kept that area of the lab vacated for the rest of the day.
Ultimately if they are replaced under warranty then the manufacturer or supplier foots the bill...
Strangely enough those costs will come right back round to the school again (next computers will cost more) and to the taxpayers.
Well decomissioning stuff in the west is hampered by the cost of the process. Naturally in developing countries this will be an even bigger burden.
Successful handling of nuclear waste requires an ongoing investment - unless you believe that when we shut up yucca mountain it'll be solved forever.
Less fiscally stable countries are likely to neglect this spending during tight times, and the environment will pay the price.
That could apply to so many things :)
While this is a worthy achievement, and will certainly ease a lot of fears about third world countries operating reactors.
Unfortunately these reactors will still produce quite a bit of waste, and will still need to be decomissioned. Given how poorly the western world handles these issues, i can't imagine how well it'll be done elsewhere...
You should be able to trade your time for their time. Particularly if you can find people that have skills you don't have.
I know people who can easily fix a leaking pipe or lend me some decent power tools, but have no clue about computers... getting on their good side can save you a bunch of money at a later point.
It does still add up to quite a big of context-switching. On the x86 arch it's fairly expensive to switch between processes, and even if your actual processes arent' doing a whole lot the chances are that they are polling something that'll need to invoke a switch a few times a second.
Well i dont have stuff good enough for a real stock agency.
I also suspect that the "real" stock agencies won't last all that long in the face of shutterstock and istockphoto.
Unfortunately on windows it's rare to see a process using less than 1MB of memory. Even notepad takes more..?!
Also it seems like a lot of processes poll stuff and aren't truly idle, otherwise they'd be paged out to disk.
Generally (at least on my less used windows box) i have most of the following running most of the time....
1) VoIP Client
2) Messaging Client
3) Word Processor
4) Multiple Web Browsers
5) Email Client
6) Probably some graphics or photo editing tool
7) Something playing music
In addition there are various other background processes like desktop indexing, things watching for my digital camera being plugged in, smart start stuff...
Linux is probably worse since i keep Apache and often Tomcat running all the time.
Back in the day, this was never how it was done. You'd optimize config.sys to get the absolute max amount of free conventional memory.
Multitasking has improved to the point that many users probably run close to 100 processes at any point in time..
prstat here says i'm on a system with
Total: 3741 processes, 6739 lwps
Fair enough it's a shared box, but that scale was impossible a decade ago.
I'd be very wary about putting in a flashing fish icon. Mostly because phishermen would be able to test their urls to find out if they've managed to make one that doesn't match the phishing profile.
Then users would think "well the fish didn't flash so i'll be safe".
I've never had any problem locating content on bittorrent.
Large files quite often do download faster than they do from the web so it's a major bonus.
My impression was that SuperNova was mostly full of links to illegal material, and hardly the point of bittorrent - even though many used it for that.