For reliable network services, you need to be at least half-decent with your calculus and limits, or you'll end up with algorithms that suffer run-away and eat up all available memory or CPU time before they successfully resynchronise. You need to have an understanding of limits to do big-O complexity estimation and assess whether an algorithm is suitable for an application, too. It may be possible to program without more than basic arithmetic and logic, but it makes writing stuff that performs well a lot harder.
It's not even easy to audit network activity on Linux once you get stuff like TCP offload engines involved. You pretty much need to use instrumented switches if you want to be sure of everything going in or out of your NICs.
Furthermore, Windows 7 or 8 out of the box CANNOT recognize these new chipsets and CANNOT refuse to install because of them.
This is just plain wrong. You could very easily make an OS that uses a whitelist of CPUID responses and PCI probe responses and refuses to install/boot on anything else. CPUs provide features for detecting/identifying generations, it would be easy enough to abuse this to make an OS refuse to install/boot on a chip that was released after it.
I'm not saying any mainstream OS does this, just that it's by no means impossible, and pretending that it's impossible just makes you look uninformed/ignorant.
More like 25 years of avoiding conflict. After the USSR showed they could shoot down a U2 by actually doing it, US has had a policy of avoiding engagement with anyone who has competent defence.
Problem with the place we had booked, and since it was Hong Kong right after Chinese New year, everything was full or close to it. So we spent a night in the "executive suite" at the Cosmopolitan, enjoyed the view, and got the admin lady to find us another place to stay (with separate rooms) the next day.
I've ended up having to share a room with a female coworker on a business trip (separate beds of course). Nothing untoward happened, no accusations were filed.
For example, I don't really understand why cars don't have a kinetic energy recovery system in them.
All (or at least the vast majority of) petrol/electric hybrids and pure electric vehicles on the road do have such a system. It's called regenerative braking.
Text editors are vim most of the time, and TextWrangler or Notepad++ if I decide I want a GUI. My compilers are gcc and clang.
I use Firefox and Safari as web browsers, also have Opera and IE11 for testing against other rendering engines. I'm still using ageing Apple Mail, iCal and Address Book. I don't like their new versions in the later OS X versions.
I use GNU Lilypond for typesetting music. I occasionally use GarageBand for basic sequencing and mixing, but nothing particularly serious.
I use Adobe Lightroom for processing my photos, and I wouldn't want to be without it. I have Photoshop as well but I barely use it.
My web/mail server runs CentOS 7 with Apache, dovecot, postfix, Horde and MySQL.
I don't actually use much more software than that. I occasionally fire up Visual Studio to look for bugs using iterator debugging. Oh I have VLC and Quicktime for media, and Steam for games, but I don't play with them very often.
Saturn modchips connect between the laser unit and the rest of the CD drive to detect when the system is trying to identify whether a disc is genuine and return the required data. This device plugs into the expansion slot and uploads code to run on the CD block processor the way the VCD playback add-on did. It causes CD block commands to read from the flash storage rather than the optical drive.
That's quite a bit earlier than my experience with them - I only dealt with Alpha workstations (not servers), running Ultrix (not VMS), and towards the end of their run. It's possible they'd gone downhill by then.
I tried to like Alpha, I really did. But it was impossible to like. The DEC Alpha workstations were horribly unreliable - you often had a third of your workstations out of service at any given time due to power supply or mainboard failures. They used far too much power and ran too hot. And Sun UltraSPARC quickly leapfrogged them in performance. Add to that the annoying ISA and horrible weak memory model that made it really hard to do any concurrency, and no-one wanted to touch it. NetBurst was basically an x86 front-end bolted onto an Alpha back-end, and it became evident very quickly that it was a dead end, just like Alpha itself. Alpha got high clock speeds, but not much else.
Not in China. Unlike "cosmonaut" which is an Anglicisation of the Russian word "kosmonavt", the word "taikonaut" seems to be an invention of English-speakers. Official English translations issued by the Chinese government use "astronaut". The native Chinese is yuhangyuan or hangtianyuan.
DOS was basically a CP/M clone, and you couldn't run UNIX on anything smaller than a fridge at the time. You can't really blame them for a CP/M carry-over when CP/M was the dominant business operating system at the time.
IS-95 CDMA phones (common in US, used to a lesser extent in other places like Australia) had a 140-character limit for SMS. GSM and its derivatives (e.g. UMTS) have a 140-byte limit, which can be used for 160 7-bit GSM alphabet characters, 160 8-bit characters, or 70 UCS2 characters.
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For reliable network services, you need to be at least half-decent with your calculus and limits, or you'll end up with algorithms that suffer run-away and eat up all available memory or CPU time before they successfully resynchronise. You need to have an understanding of limits to do big-O complexity estimation and assess whether an algorithm is suitable for an application, too. It may be possible to program without more than basic arithmetic and logic, but it makes writing stuff that performs well a lot harder.
It's not even easy to audit network activity on Linux once you get stuff like TCP offload engines involved. You pretty much need to use instrumented switches if you want to be sure of everything going in or out of your NICs.
Or "g-suit", the inflatable pants worn by fighter pilots to stop blood pooling in legs/feet during high-g manoeuvres.
And when I heard "European delivery" I thought of this: http://www.investopedia.com/te...
Redo is Shift-Cmd-Z on Macs, and has been for decades. Ctrl isn't used for menu shortcuts on Macs for the most part.
This is just plain wrong. You could very easily make an OS that uses a whitelist of CPUID responses and PCI probe responses and refuses to install/boot on anything else. CPUs provide features for detecting/identifying generations, it would be easy enough to abuse this to make an OS refuse to install/boot on a chip that was released after it.
I'm not saying any mainstream OS does this, just that it's by no means impossible, and pretending that it's impossible just makes you look uninformed/ignorant.
Camera access isn't for driving, it's for the walking "reality scanner" feature. It shows labels for places of interest, street names, etc.
Then what do they offer over the general waiting area? the whole attraction of airline lounges here is free food/booze/showers.
I don't know where you live, but around here the food and drinks are free in the airline lounges.
More like 25 years of avoiding conflict. After the USSR showed they could shoot down a U2 by actually doing it, US has had a policy of avoiding engagement with anyone who has competent defence.
There actually haven't been many nuclear-powered civilian ships at all:
No luxury liners on the list. Ocean liners typically burn heavy fuel oil.
Problem with the place we had booked, and since it was Hong Kong right after Chinese New year, everything was full or close to it. So we spent a night in the "executive suite" at the Cosmopolitan, enjoyed the view, and got the admin lady to find us another place to stay (with separate rooms) the next day.
I've ended up having to share a room with a female coworker on a business trip (separate beds of course). Nothing untoward happened, no accusations were filed.
All (or at least the vast majority of) petrol/electric hybrids and pure electric vehicles on the road do have such a system. It's called regenerative braking.
Text editors are vim most of the time, and TextWrangler or Notepad++ if I decide I want a GUI. My compilers are gcc and clang.
I use Firefox and Safari as web browsers, also have Opera and IE11 for testing against other rendering engines. I'm still using ageing Apple Mail, iCal and Address Book. I don't like their new versions in the later OS X versions.
I use GNU Lilypond for typesetting music. I occasionally use GarageBand for basic sequencing and mixing, but nothing particularly serious.
I use Adobe Lightroom for processing my photos, and I wouldn't want to be without it. I have Photoshop as well but I barely use it.
My web/mail server runs CentOS 7 with Apache, dovecot, postfix, Horde and MySQL.
I don't actually use much more software than that. I occasionally fire up Visual Studio to look for bugs using iterator debugging. Oh I have VLC and Quicktime for media, and Steam for games, but I don't play with them very often.
Dell PowerEdge R730 running VMware ESXi with VMs running CentOS 7 and OpenBSD.
Dell Precision T3610 running Windows 7 with Fedora 20 and CentOS 7 VMs. 31.5" wide gamut (Adobe RGB) at 3840x2160 resolution. Sanwa compact JIS keyboard, Wacom Intuos 5 pen and touch tablet, Logitech G502 mouse.
MacBook Pro (2010), 17" matte 1920x1200 resolution display, running OS X 10.6.8.
Saturn modchips connect between the laser unit and the rest of the CD drive to detect when the system is trying to identify whether a disc is genuine and return the required data. This device plugs into the expansion slot and uploads code to run on the CD block processor the way the VCD playback add-on did. It causes CD block commands to read from the flash storage rather than the optical drive.
In Pascal, ^ deferences a pointer, as in recptr^.field = value. Some extended Pascal variants used ** as power operator.
That's quite a bit earlier than my experience with them - I only dealt with Alpha workstations (not servers), running Ultrix (not VMS), and towards the end of their run. It's possible they'd gone downhill by then.
I tried to like Alpha, I really did. But it was impossible to like. The DEC Alpha workstations were horribly unreliable - you often had a third of your workstations out of service at any given time due to power supply or mainboard failures. They used far too much power and ran too hot. And Sun UltraSPARC quickly leapfrogged them in performance. Add to that the annoying ISA and horrible weak memory model that made it really hard to do any concurrency, and no-one wanted to touch it. NetBurst was basically an x86 front-end bolted onto an Alpha back-end, and it became evident very quickly that it was a dead end, just like Alpha itself. Alpha got high clock speeds, but not much else.
They have 13th floors, but they often don't have room 4, room 14, room 24, etc. because the Chinese words for "four" and "death" sound similar.
That's not how caps lock works on a Mac for example. On a Mac Caps-Shift-A will produce capital A as well (shift doesn't negate caps lock on letters).
Not in China. Unlike "cosmonaut" which is an Anglicisation of the Russian word "kosmonavt", the word "taikonaut" seems to be an invention of English-speakers. Official English translations issued by the Chinese government use "astronaut". The native Chinese is yuhangyuan or hangtianyuan.
DOS was basically a CP/M clone, and you couldn't run UNIX on anything smaller than a fridge at the time. You can't really blame them for a CP/M carry-over when CP/M was the dominant business operating system at the time.
IS-95 CDMA phones (common in US, used to a lesser extent in other places like Australia) had a 140-character limit for SMS. GSM and its derivatives (e.g. UMTS) have a 140-byte limit, which can be used for 160 7-bit GSM alphabet characters, 160 8-bit characters, or 70 UCS2 characters.