About an hour before the scheduled launch, there was an announcement on the radio. I set an alarm in my Visor.
The alarm went off and I went outside. Like any launch, several people had gathered around the parking lot to view the event. My alarm was a few minutes early; can't set an alarm for 1:58 PM:)
Rocket appeared in the north and leaving a white pillar of smoke behind its brilliant yellow flame. Rising much faster than a shuttle, it arced gracefully to the east and out over the ocean. It took about two minutes before the solid rockets burt out and it became invisible in the afternoon sky.
The reason why these programs use old parts is very simple: when the design process started, those parts were what was available. Complicated systems or systems that have high reliability requirements take years to fully design and qualify. Commercial products don't have these kinds of restrictions and evolve much faster. To keep a space or military system up-to-date with the commerical world would render the system unfieldable; it would never get qualified!
The plural form of "microprocessor" is "microprocessors," and not "microprocessor's" which is the singular posessive form. The plural posessive form would be "microprocessors'"
The way I see it, the only way that Linux and Open Source are going get larger on the desktop (and shut out closed standards) is to have people making Linux distros that are easy to install, and easy to use.
I'm so tired of this.
Ease of installation is a non-issue; ever used a modern distro like Red Hat, Mandrake, or SuSE? I've used Red Hat 6.2, 7.1 and am about ready to install 9.0; every one has had a very simple install process. Kudzu detects just about everything hardware-wise.
Furthermore, the ease-of-installation is a red herring; I'm one of the very few people that actually do OS installations; most people buy their machines with a factory-installed OS. "Ease of installation" means taking the machine out of its box, plugging it in and turning it on.
As far as ease of use goes, I have significantly less trouble getting new hardware to reliably work with my Red Hat Linux machine than with any Windows box I interact with, but that's mostly an application issue; Linux software appears to be written in a device-agnostic fashion while a lot of Windows software is tied to particular hardware configurations. aftermarket CD-RW drives are a good example. The included Windows-centric disc-burning software is invariably tied to that make and model drive and won't work with anything else.
as a Christmas present for somebody. It was the low-end Wal-Mart special. Decent box. Just perfect for email and web browsing.
Lindows is great *if* you utilize their $100/year Click-N-Run Warehouse service. If you're don't, there's no real incentive to use them over RedHat or Debian (Lindows is based on Debian). In fact, without the CNR subscription, it's *less* useful; there aren't any books out there for "Lindows," and the RH books outnumber the Debian titles by a large margin.
Installing OpenOffice.org on the machine makes it close enough to MS-Office compatible for her; the only thing it won't do is run those Outlook trojans that keep going around.
The recipient was not somebody I'd call computer literate; they just wanted a machine that would allow them to send and receive email ad web browse; the Lindows box was perfect.
Hrm! They keep adding on these fees, and the rates I pay won't be just reasonable or affordable anymore!
My wife and I were looking at cell service last weekend; one service provider charges a "gross receipts surcharge" that the sales staff didn't know about and couldn't explain. We still don't have cell service.
I'm curious to hear your explanation as to why in that case the Republican majority decided to eliminate the extra $400 child tax credit to families making less than $26,000 a year
Basically, it boils down to this: They do not pay that much in taxes! To extend a "tax credit" to people that don't pay taxes is just another welfare program; it's not tax reform.
This has got to be a hose; a material can't be a "good reflector" and an insulator at the same time.
Mr. Maxwell taught us that EM waves are reflected from conductors because any electric field that is tangential to a conductor causes charges to move to cancel out that field (thre can be no electric field inside a conductor). These moving charges are more commonly called "currents."
Insulating materials do not stop radiating fields; your radio works inside your wood framed house, doesn't it? Light propagates through the glass front of your CRT from the phosphors on the inside of the tube, doesn't it?
Seems to me that if they're worried about induced eddy current heating of the implants, would it not make more sense to use *better* conductors, not worse ones? Better conductors would have lower I-squared-R losses, resulting in less resistive heating. Take that implant, put a few micro-inches of copper on it, and then seal it up with something biologically intert (some plastic?).
Hey, Free Porn! Did you hear what Toner Discount told me happened to him? His girlfriend, Hot Naked Teens, dumped him for somebody else named "Increase Your Penis!"
Yep, I know what combinational logic machines are-- I've built several. They're logic systems where the output is dependent only upon the current states of the inputs: that is, they're memoryless. They contrast with sequential logic systems that have "memory" and the current outputs are dependent not only on the current input values, but also on previous output values.
My point was that his fuzzy concept of "operations" is nothing more than the idea of "instructions." A short while ago I did a paper design and simulator for a "one-instruction" computer based on Douglas Jones'Ultimate RISC. I've seen several people argue that it's not a "one-instruction" machine at all; the memory-mapped ALU operations are individual instructions where the opcode is encoded in the destination address.
1. It must be data oriented with no concept of instructions (just routing information), data flows in the system and transformed in a non-linear way, and the output will be all possible computations doable by the transformations.
So, what would these transformations be other than... instructions? You could show me a list of "transformations" that the input data is to undergo to generate an output, and I'd show you a list of "instructions" that tell the computer what to do to the input data to generate an output.
Furthermore, what you want is impossible-- "all possible combinations doable by the [yet uncounted] transformations." That's an arbitrarily large amount of work that requires an arbitrarily large machine and time to accomplish it.
2. It must be based on a fully interconnected grid of very simple processing elements.
3. The performance of said computer will be measured in terms of bandwidth not the usual MIPS. As you can see you will need a classical type computer to operate the described computer above so it will not totally replace it.
Hrm. I suppose you've never noticed that memory buses are now specified by what amounts to a bandwidth number, as are IDE (ATA) bus family members. As to the "classical type" computer, again your prototype is the Connection Machine, circa 1983.
Look, the RIAA are whores. The music industry has had a free ride for some time, giving musicians 10% or less of the profit they've generated solely because the industry is so huge it can afford this monopoly.
But anyway, I'd be pissed : HP doesn't have the right to obsolete something I am willing to use until it's dead.
Why not? Not even automobile manufacturers are required to continue to make parts for more than what, ten years after model production ceased? You can't go to your local Ford dealer and get parts for your Model-T, now can you? How many Bel Air or Corvair parts can you pick up at a Chevrolet dealer?
Up until recently I had an Amiga 2000 built in 1988. Should CBM have been required to manufacture replaceents for my increasingly-flaky keyboard? Nevermind that CBM hasn't existed since 1994!
Furthermore, why not get a DJ400-compatible cartridge made by somebody else? Check out the text on this page: "Buying Compatible HP DeskJet 400, 400L Ink Cartridges Do Not Void Printer Warranty Most believe that using compatible ink cartridges void your printer warranty, this is not true at all. This is proven by the following US Congress Legislation - MAGNUSON-MOSS WARRANTY IMPROVEMENT ACT. This act make it illegal for printer manufacturers to void the warranty on your printer because you use supplies and products manufactured by a third party manufacturer."
Well, it depends on if the fields are strong enough to cause dielectric breakdown (arcing!) in whatever they're passing through.
For example, the dielectric strength of an insulator is the limit of electric field intensity that can be placed across it without stripping electrons from their atoms (ionizing the material) and causing arcing (reduction of the electric field via relocation of charge).
The main limit on the power handling capacity of waveguide is the dielectric strength of the filler (usually air). Forcing more power than the rated capacity leads to internal arcing and guide damage.
1. A breakdown of the human "life-energy field" in those who were exposed to microwave ovens while in operation, with side-effects to the human energy field of increasingly longer duration
Okay, you're quoting some hokey new-agey alien-abduction source. I get it.
2. A degeneration of the cellular voltage parallels during the process of using the apparatus, especially in the blood and lymphatic areas
But I seem to remember something about mitigating the effect via sleeping in a pyramid.
3. A degeneration and destabilization of the external energy activated potentials of food utilization within the processes of human metabolism
Sounds like, "the popcorn got burned," to me.
4. A degeneration and destabilization of internal cellular membrane potentials while transferring catabolic [metabolic breakdown] processes into the blood serum from the digestive process;
Potentials were broken? Processes were transferred into the blood? I had no idea that microwaves could damage abstract ideas!
5. Degeneration and circuit breakdowns of electrical nerve impulses within the junction potentials of the cerebrum [the front portion of the brain where thought and higher functions reside];
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So you're saying that they're famous?
Step 5 is an unconditional jump, so steps six and seven never get executed!
This can't posibly be Microsoft's MO-- there's no way to get to the profit!
When I was in high school, the main activities of the Computer Club were probably best categorized as "Offsite Archival Preservation."
Yeah, so everybody has LESS. Cool. Too bad socialism removes all desire to excel.
About an hour before the scheduled launch, there was an announcement on the radio. I set an alarm in my Visor.
:)
The alarm went off and I went outside. Like any launch, several people had gathered around the parking lot to view the event. My alarm was a few minutes early; can't set an alarm for 1:58 PM
Rocket appeared in the north and leaving a white pillar of smoke behind its brilliant yellow flame. Rising much faster than a shuttle, it arced gracefully to the east and out over the ocean. It took about two minutes before the solid rockets burt out and it became invisible in the afternoon sky.
"Richard Thompson" is a strange way to spell this guy's name. You know, he sang with The Smiths. He's got the most depressing music I've ever heard.
Well, outside REM, of course. Depressing not only for their music (I find Green especially depressing), but none of them even graduated from that famed institution of lower learning, the University of Georgia!
Bzzt! Try again!
The reason why these programs use old parts is very simple: when the design process started, those parts were what was available. Complicated systems or systems that have high reliability requirements take years to fully design and qualify. Commercial products don't have these kinds of restrictions and evolve much faster. To keep a space or military system up-to-date with the commerical world would render the system unfieldable; it would never get qualified!
Take the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter. The prototype flew in 1996. It's not scheduled to enter active duty service until 2006!
The plural form of "microprocessor" is "microprocessors," and not "microprocessor's" which is the singular posessive form. The plural posessive form would be "microprocessors'"
I'm so tired of this.
Ease of installation is a non-issue; ever used a modern distro like Red Hat, Mandrake, or SuSE? I've used Red Hat 6.2, 7.1 and am about ready to install 9.0; every one has had a very simple install process. Kudzu detects just about everything hardware-wise.
Furthermore, the ease-of-installation is a red herring; I'm one of the very few people that actually do OS installations; most people buy their machines with a factory-installed OS. "Ease of installation" means taking the machine out of its box, plugging it in and turning it on.
As far as ease of use goes, I have significantly less trouble getting new hardware to reliably work with my Red Hat Linux machine than with any Windows box I interact with, but that's mostly an application issue; Linux software appears to be written in a device-agnostic fashion while a lot of Windows software is tied to particular hardware configurations. aftermarket CD-RW drives are a good example. The included Windows-centric disc-burning software is invariably tied to that make and model drive and won't work with anything else.
as a Christmas present for somebody. It was the low-end Wal-Mart special. Decent box. Just perfect for email and web browsing.
Lindows is great *if* you utilize their $100/year Click-N-Run Warehouse service. If you're don't, there's no real incentive to use them over RedHat or Debian (Lindows is based on Debian). In fact, without the CNR subscription, it's *less* useful; there aren't any books out there for "Lindows," and the RH books outnumber the Debian titles by a large margin.
Installing OpenOffice.org on the machine makes it close enough to MS-Office compatible for her; the only thing it won't do is run those Outlook trojans that keep going around.
The recipient was not somebody I'd call computer literate; they just wanted a machine that would allow them to send and receive email ad web browse; the Lindows box was perfect.
Hrm! They keep adding on these fees, and the rates I pay won't be just reasonable or affordable anymore!
My wife and I were looking at cell service last weekend; one service provider charges a "gross receipts surcharge" that the sales staff didn't know about and couldn't explain. We still don't have cell service.
Basically, it boils down to this: They do not pay that much in taxes! To extend a "tax credit" to people that don't pay taxes is just another welfare program; it's not tax reform.
Uh, I am as much a fan of American cars as anyone, and hated to see the demise of the GM F-body cars (Camaro and Firebird). However
Honda builds their boxy Element SUV in Ohio.
Oddessey Minivans come from Lincoln, AL
On the other hand, my 1995 Pontiac Firebird is from Quebec and my wife's 2002 Chrysler PT Cruiser is from Mexico.
I think it was intentional and an example of something called "Satire."
This has got to be a hose; a material can't be a "good reflector" and an insulator at the same time.
Mr. Maxwell taught us that EM waves are reflected from conductors because any electric field that is tangential to a conductor causes charges to move to cancel out that field (thre can be no electric field inside a conductor). These moving charges are more commonly called "currents."
Insulating materials do not stop radiating fields; your radio works inside your wood framed house, doesn't it? Light propagates through the glass front of your CRT from the phosphors on the inside of the tube, doesn't it?
Seems to me that if they're worried about induced eddy current heating of the implants, would it not make more sense to use *better* conductors, not worse ones? Better conductors would have lower I-squared-R losses, resulting in less resistive heating. Take that implant, put a few micro-inches of copper on it, and then seal it up with something biologically intert (some plastic?).
because in most C implmentations the for keyword is actually done as a macro:
:)
#define for(a;b;c){d} {a;while(b){d;c;}}
or
#define for(a;b;c){d} {a;do{d;c}while(b);}
or some such...
I suppose that some people would think that a while() or do{} loop is "purer"
than for() in C.
If I remember correctly, "Kashmir" was the name of one of the processes spawned by the Amiga version of WordPerfect.
That's the best idea I've heard all day.
Hey, Free Porn! Did you hear what Toner Discount told me happened to him?
His girlfriend, Hot Naked Teens, dumped him for somebody else named "Increase Your Penis!"
Yep, I know what combinational logic machines are-- I've built several. They're logic systems where the output is dependent only upon the current states of the inputs: that is, they're memoryless. They contrast with sequential logic systems that have "memory" and the current outputs are dependent not only on the current input values, but also on previous output values.
My point was that his fuzzy concept of "operations" is nothing more than the idea of "instructions." A short while ago I did a paper design and simulator for a "one-instruction" computer based on Douglas Jones' Ultimate RISC. I've seen several people argue that it's not a "one-instruction" machine at all; the memory-mapped ALU operations are individual instructions where the opcode is encoded in the destination address.
So, what would these transformations be other than... instructions? You could show me a list of "transformations" that the input data is to undergo to generate an output, and I'd show you a list of "instructions" that tell the computer what to do to the input data to generate an output.
Furthermore, what you want is impossible-- "all possible combinations doable by the [yet uncounted] transformations." That's an arbitrarily large amount of work that requires an arbitrarily large machine and time to accomplish it.
Kinda like a Connection Machine, huh? Those are real new.
Hrm. I suppose you've never noticed that memory buses are now specified by what amounts to a bandwidth number, as are IDE (ATA) bus family members. As to the "classical type" computer, again your prototype is the Connection Machine, circa 1983.
Wouldn't that make them pimps?
Why not? Not even automobile manufacturers are required to continue to make parts for more than what, ten years after model production ceased? You can't go to your local Ford dealer and get parts for your Model-T, now can you? How many Bel Air or Corvair parts can you pick up at a Chevrolet dealer?
Up until recently I had an Amiga 2000 built in 1988. Should CBM have been required to manufacture replaceents for my increasingly-flaky keyboard? Nevermind that CBM hasn't existed since 1994!
Furthermore, why not get a DJ400-compatible cartridge made by somebody else? Check out the text on this page: "Buying Compatible HP DeskJet 400, 400L Ink Cartridges Do Not Void Printer Warranty Most believe that using compatible ink cartridges void your printer warranty, this is not true at all. This is proven by the following US Congress Legislation - MAGNUSON-MOSS WARRANTY IMPROVEMENT ACT. This act make it illegal for printer manufacturers to void the warranty on your printer because you use supplies and products manufactured by a third party manufacturer."
How about this one?
Want to know more about the Act? Here's what the FTC has to say.
Actually, the Beretta was a two-door "coupe" in the American parlance. The four-door "sedan" version of the GM L-body was called the Corsica.
Well, it depends on if the fields are strong enough to cause dielectric breakdown (arcing!) in whatever they're passing through.
For example, the dielectric strength of an insulator is the limit of electric field intensity that can be placed across it without stripping electrons from their atoms (ionizing the material) and causing arcing (reduction of the electric field via relocation of charge).
The main limit on the power handling capacity of waveguide is the dielectric strength of the filler (usually air). Forcing more power than the rated capacity leads to internal arcing and guide damage.
Okay, you're quoting some hokey new-agey alien-abduction source. I get it.
But I seem to remember something about mitigating the effect via sleeping in a pyramid.
Sounds like, "the popcorn got burned," to me.
Potentials were broken? Processes were transferred into the blood? I had no idea that microwaves could damage abstract ideas!
I can't take it any more...