Perhaps NASA should try crashing some more shit into Mars. We sure could use some more meteors to look at. This time, though, they could just leave out all of the expensive electronics and save some money!:o}
Great. I'll pay for the first class ticket. You all get on and fly around for three hours. Then, when you've got all the oxygen you need, come back and pick me up.:)
"This InteractiveWeek article describes how Microsoft, without much public attetion, has built multimedia content protection technology into Windows, thus encouraging the movie and music industries to adapt the Windows Media formats for their content."
None of you people actually use any Micros~1 products, Right? So what's all the fuss?
NASA was warned about the problem. They were warned long before Ebeling and Boisjoly. NASA saved money by using the Morton-Thiokol SRBs instead of the safer, more expensive ones proposed by United Technologies. The decisions that led to this disaster were made in the early 70's, well before the incident. NASA knew very well that this outcome was a good possibility.
I know that this is an oversimplification, but couldn't I just ROT13 the data before I write it to the drive and undo it when I read the data back? That might serve to confuse the detection of "copy protected" data. It should be easy to write drivers that would automatically do this.
One latched "trigger" input for the FIRE button. On each leading edge of this input only signal, the x/y position of the electron beam was stored in a pair of registers for light pen implementation.
Four I/O bits from the 6532 PIO chip. These were user settable as either input or output lines via a mask register on the 6532.
Two ADC converters. There was no DAC facility. The buggers worked by discharging a capacitor at the end of vertical blank and charging it back up through the input line. When the voltage reached a predetermined level, the Y value of the electron beam was copied into a register.
It don't believe that it would be very difficult to implement this sort of primitive I/O on a more modern system. The ADC function would require a bit of hardware, but not much.
If in finishing a messy project nothing went wrong, when something very well should have. I don't think this has proved Murphy's law as invalid, or that we should absolutly think that something went wrong because the result wildy violated it. Perhaps the best answer is that we should be skeptical of the result (nothing went wrong), beacause it goes against the 'wisdom' of the law.
No. It will go wrong. It is just waiting for the most destructive time to do so.
I've got quotes for PRI lines as low as 300 per month (If I'm in the telco's building) that's a little over 12.50 per month per dialup line, not including equipment, staff, tax, rent, internet backhaul, caffeine, etc.
The 7-9 figure is probably correctly stated per user.
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Perhaps NASA should try crashing some more shit into Mars. We sure could use some more meteors to look at. This time, though, they could just leave out all of the expensive electronics and save some money! :o}
You're right, I can't spell. Why memorize what can be looked up. (and I'll give you a shiny new nickle if you know who to attribute that to)
Shit, you could at least spell nickel right.
Great. I'll pay for the first class ticket. You all get on and fly around for three hours. Then, when you've got all the oxygen you need, come back and pick me up. :)
Ask me again in a couple years.
I can't see how you could retool from making VW Beetles to making tanks...
I can't see how you could switch from making VW Beetles to making tanks without retooling.
I agree completely?
"This InteractiveWeek article describes how Microsoft, without much public attetion, has built multimedia content protection technology into Windows, thus encouraging the movie and music industries to adapt the Windows Media formats for their content."
None of you people actually use any Micros~1 products, Right? So what's all the fuss?
NASA was warned about the problem. They were warned long before Ebeling and Boisjoly. NASA saved money by using the Morton-Thiokol SRBs instead of the safer, more expensive ones proposed by United Technologies. The decisions that led to this disaster were made in the early 70's, well before the incident. NASA knew very well that this outcome was a good possibility.
Close, it is from the immense tidal (gravitational) forces imposed by Jupiter and the other moons.
Even closer, but immense refers to physical size, which is not a property of gravitation.
Jeff
ROTFLSHTSCOMPL
Rolling on the floor laughing so hard that shit's coming out my pant leg
Could you run that by me again?
I wonder if "fraudulent" use of Business Reply Mail would constitute "Mail Fraud". Anyone out there know the answer?
I see. By your type of reasoning, anyone that disagrees with you is obviously an *idiot*. Seems very logical to me...
"No human finger will actually pull a trigger. Onboard computers will decide when to fire the beam." I find this to be a bit disconcerting. "
;)
As long as you don't look like an enemy target to the computer then you have nothing to worry about.
Why not do it like Micros~1? I can see it now:
Linux 2000 release delayed until early 2001....
"Oh, sorry, my jacket seems to have crashed, let me take it off and put it back on again..."
Or, you could just zip it up and send it off to tech support for analysis.
I know that this is an oversimplification, but couldn't I just ROT13 the data before I write it to the drive and undo it when I read the data back? That might serve to confuse the detection of "copy protected" data. It should be easy to write drivers that would automatically do this.
Just a thought...
The "game" ports were actually as follows:
One latched "trigger" input for the FIRE button. On each leading edge of this input only signal, the x/y position of the electron beam was stored in a pair of registers for light pen implementation.
Four I/O bits from the 6532 PIO chip. These were user settable as either input or output lines via a mask register on the 6532.
Two ADC converters. There was no DAC facility. The buggers worked by discharging a capacitor at the end of vertical blank and charging it back up through the input line. When the voltage reached a predetermined level, the Y value of the electron beam was copied into a register.
It don't believe that it would be very difficult to implement this sort of primitive I/O on a more modern system. The ADC function would require a bit of hardware, but not much.
If in finishing a messy project nothing went wrong, when something very well should have. I don't think this has proved Murphy's law as invalid, or that we should absolutly think that something went wrong because the result wildy violated it. Perhaps the best answer is that we should be skeptical of the result (nothing went wrong), beacause it goes against the 'wisdom' of the law.
No. It will go wrong. It is just waiting for the most destructive time to do so.
Regular books are made from trees.
;O)
Trees grow back.
E books run on electricity.
Once you use electricity it is gone forever!
Wait a minute... I'm recording a sound for PPoE as we speak!
I've got quotes for PRI lines as low as 300 per month (If I'm in the telco's building) that's a little over 12.50 per month per dialup line, not including equipment, staff, tax, rent, internet backhaul, caffeine, etc.
The 7-9 figure is probably correctly stated per user.
Actually, Scientists now believe that everything East of the San Andreas fault will slide into the Atlantic Ocean.
...the power goes out here every time a bird lands on a power line and farts.
Time to stop putting beans in the feeder, methinks.
it's corn