If the threat of the police coming to look at what you've done is enough to make you sign something, you were doing something you knew was wrong in any case.
Not clear.... no one wants to be placed under the magnifying glass.
What if he or his parents smoke pot? What if he has a couple Costco size
boxes of zip lock bags.
Ideally a professor on a committee with expulsion power is tenured. (No idea if that is true here)
However, it sounds like you think it's more likely that 14 people were coerced than a 20 year old would omit part of his story. Have you found large scale coercion more common than lies of omission?
Coercion may not apply here. The gang of 14 may have simply ruled that rule 206978.00981.3.1415 was clearly violated. Consequences then followed.
There are times when the equivalent of "jury nullification" should apply.
Was the gang of 14 a flock of sheep or knowledgeable informed individuals.
Informed of the entire issue -- doubtful, knowledgeable perhaps.
I'm fascinated by the adversarial attitude the college administration appears to have towards their students. I mean unless there's more to this story than we know about, like he made suggestive comments about the press or threatened them first, they apparently made him sign an NDA and booted him when they felt he had no recourse.
I'd have very serious questions about the ethical or even social ability of these people to operate a third level institution. It strikes me as classic CYA from middle management with extreme prejuidice, which typically indicates angry disconnected shut-ins in the back room. Well, either that or aloof disconnected gentlemen's clubs in the back room. Same result either way. It's not a learning environment from their perspective, it's a simmering cauldron of unpleasantness that must be kept strictly under control lest it get in the way of money.
Dear Fascinated;
Consider the result of decades of zero tolerance in US K-12 education.
Zero tolerance is indistinguishable from bigotry, intolerance, bullying and many other problems it intends to solve....
Signing an NDA without compensation seems unenforceable.
Compensation can have many faces but if the compensation is "we will not persecute"... well coercion is not legal.
Since he had money and time invested in the system he does have rights to follow up.
Unless he is compensated to a degree that matches his investment. I am talking serious
bucks here because the potential earning bump from a quality education is large.
An NDA in the context of a serious job interview can make sense. Bring your own complementary NDA that
covers your loss should you discuss novel and interesting solutions to code tests, discussions involving their product,
etc...
My bank has public facing computers. If I were to find and exploit a way to access other people's banking data, I'm pretty sure there'd be hell to pay.
I'm pretty sure the US and UK both have laws that would prevent access beyond your authorization. I'd be astonished if Canada did not have similar legislation.
Your bank gets scanned several times an hour (if not several times a minute) by half the blackhats and scriptkiddies of the globe, and nobody in the banks IT dept. would be dumb enough to bitch about it, because they know its natural on a public-facing system.
Simply scanning your bank and reporting your findings to them, is unlikely to get you in "hell"... unless
r
There is an interesting quandary here.
If I walk into a bank I can make a visual inspection to see if they have locks. I can see the vault door, I can see FDIC or the lack of FDIC assertions. I can research the banks financials and research the validity of any insurance claim.
Now can I do an inspection "scan" to make like discoveries. Can I look at the API/ABI and inspect for flaws that my personal expert experiences tell me to look for?
Disclosure is a wildly different tangle. Should you discover a problem and disclose it in confidence to the authorities there should be no consequence. However who is the authority and who should be notified and how. I would assert() that disclosure is a moral obligation that should be PROTECTED by the law. Non-disclosure seems safe up to the point that in the modern data mining world the act of discovery will leave footprints that cannot be erased and would open anyone up to prosecution/persecution should a pre zero day exploit surface.
Above I used the word expert. In my experience a competent novice is most likely to stumble on interesting flaws. They tend to write naive code that triggers bug after bug. Experts tend to write quality code block after block, checking return value, not overloading variables or functions and not employing the last bit of trickery discussed in class.
Your plan would require the crew to check every single device on the aircraft for certification and make sure people didn't use uncertified ones. It would be far easier to just confirm what we pretty much know - that planes are not affected by consumer wireless devices at all, or if they are fix them. That would bring additional safety from people forgetting to turn devices off as well.
Also the FAA is responsible for a relatively small part of the international air travel market. Any solution will have to be internationally agreed, especially since most long haul flights are between two different countries. For example Japanese wifi can go up to channel 13. This is what international standards bodies are for.
Give that man a cigar! WiFi and ground radar in the U.S. do overlap. That is why channel 13 is disabled here. Other nations use different bands so there is no collision.
In a previous job I was doing FCC evaluation of a cool new 68000 computer. I could not get repeated qualifying data. Pulling my hair out I took a walk... Then I noticed the SR-71 on the runway not too far away.
Seems they had been doing touch and go landings all morning. Apparently they had electronics fired up so no one could gather any radar profile data, or something.
Made the spectrum analyzer light up to no end..
The same computer a year later kept crashing on a flight line. Nothing made sense until the customer asked if a radar that would kill a rabbit at fifty paces (like a captured MIG) could cause interference.;-)
So yes, the US murder rate is unparalleled for a developed nation, and much closer to that of poor or half-failed countries. Of course if you drag into the picture narcorepublics and countries that are more like institutionalised criminal syndicates than republics, the statistics look a bit better, but it's like putting lipstick on a pig—it's still 4.2 by 100k.
Excluding war casualties, yes please, including the War on Drugs. The WOD is an evil and fuels a billion dollar industry outside of the rule of law. Poverty and WOD is a disaster worse than global warming. It does not respect boundaries, it is a global evil.
This is just a great example of responsible journalism. Now the criminals know exactly where to go to get firearms that will never be traced back to them.
Yes, it is also a list that a good samaritan could use to send informative letter to.
Dear Sir or Madam, your name and address has been published, it makes sense to improve your locks and doors. Attached are instruction on how to file in small claims court to recover that damage to you. The small claims court limit is: xxxx
That would keep a staff well employed.. Failure to appear is not an option. Free speech does not cover irresponsible actions.
They could be targeted by anti-gun zealots.
It's like publishing a map which pinpoints where the jews are. Maybe they should put a star on their houses.
.....You're comparing jews to guns?
In modern history BOTH were compiled into lists and destroyed.
Yup, first amendment vs second amendment.
It is funny to see those gun owners who run to the amendment, get outed by the one right above it.
Really gun owners.... really?
Forget the lists of "gun owners", I want a list of the people being prescribed SSRIs.
You want to find a link between "mass shootings" and something, you need look no farther..
Caution you may find that this is a fragile indicator. Lots of people have been helped AND the science is improving. The knee in your curve also has a temporal relationship to anti tobacco regulations and compliance to these regulations.
Tobacco was the sedative or the masses. We had generations that lived happy addicted lives. In many of the poster child nations held up as having low mass murder rates, it still is.
I would assert that nicotine is under proscribed and prescribed.
We do need improvements on the drugs for healthy brains and aspertain ain't it.
No matter how sweet it is. Also put sugar and artificial sweeteners in your graph.
I bet they line up too.
If someone used voter registration rolls to publish a map of all registered black voters, would that be a 1st Amendment vs 14th Amendment issue, or would that be a 1st Amendment vs privacy issue?
Interesting, the Obama for president organization created a map based iPhone application of registered voters. Door to door canvassers knew who, what and where as they organized free transportation for "their team". There are rumors of scalawag actions that kept some home too. Massive, political lists are a massive risks, ready for abuse. The last couple elections simply gamed the system. There are no protections from massive abuse.
Bingo, murdering.grandma. Is a red flag.
I cannot condone his release.
We now have identified two insane people.
One sits on the payroll board and should have his info made public.
This irresponsible act can and should be used to squash any registration process.
Almost all the witnesses are dead and gone but step one in Germany was a registration list.
Step two confiscate all the weapons in the ghettos.
Step three ship men women and children to labour camps.
Step four when the camps were full, exterminate the excess.
There are three reasons to own and bear arms.
Sport (hunting, targets)
Personal defense of family and property.
Third is protection from tyrants, tyranny and government (local, state, national) gone insane.
The third is interesting in the context of the war on drugs. The war on drugs has created a world outside the law. Law outside the law in fact. In many places the drug lords rule this government, in some cases the reach is national and international.
Should I have been a witness to a recent local murder I would want to be armed. Should I be called to sit in judgement as a juror, I would want to be armed. And I live in a good neighborhood.
They recently taped out a Cortex-A7 processor with this technology, calling it a significant milestone for the fabless ecosystem."
I'm very good at the English language but I have no idea what this means. How do you 'tape out' a processor? What's a 'fabless ecosystem'? (The rainforests are rather wonderful, I hear.)
There are many steps in the design of any modern digital device.
Transferring information from step to step was often accomplished
with a digital tape(s) full of files. When one step finishes they
send a tape out to the next step. Thus "tape out".
The first steps are often logical and classic designs were done on
yellow pads of paper by hand. S. Cray was famous for this. This is
where the data bus details are set down. Think of it as the primary.h file
for the hardware.
Other steps are silicon to transistor and transistor to basic gate lay out.
These are often the magic of the silicon fabrication houses and differ
from one to another and change in subtle ways so they can be made.
This magic can involve subtle interference figures that light at the sub-nanometer
level has and is specific to the wavelength and purity of the light sources,
thickness of mask materials and a thousand other details.
The mask is often generated from register-transfer level (RTL) files.
Google searching for RTL design flow will open some doors.
The RTL is often generated from a very high level hardware description
language, VHDL... This is where the yellow pad design and the tool
chain first interact for many designs.
Some designs depend on purchased blobs of logic. That intellectual
property (IP) can be RTL or VHDL or some mix. The ARM processor world
is a sea of IP glued together on a basic bus architecture. The bus arch. of
many processors is a lot like system buses once were. Look at things like
the VME bus specifications most of which can be found on the web. The
VME specification has dimensions, power, voltages, signal levels, timing,
handshakes and more. Today system on a chip designs are a lot like
the older bus based systems. A VME bus system house would buy a disk controller
(think IP blob) add memory boards (think IP blob again) etc...
Back to "tape out"... I think CrankyFool in post (#42377687) below has it right.
Today the files are sent via scp or ftp. In the early days a physical magnetic
tape was sent. Taping out can cover a lot of steps. The files to make a printed
wiring board could be taped out. The machine shop instructions for a case/ chassis
could eventually be taped out and numerically controlled machines happened.
The machine shop process is a good example. Start with a casting. The fire and smoke
of a smelter and molten iron/ brass/ zinc is a specialized world. The castings would
then ship to a machine shop where mating surfaces would be cut to precise specifications
holes tapped for bolts. Then off to the engine assembly where different parts from different
materials like crank shafts, would be assembled....
Computer chips would often move from the silicon foundry to a test step, then to a package
vendor/ house to be mated with a specialized package. Today a package is itself a complex
device that bonds out pads on the silicon up/ down/ left right in a way that manages thermal
needs and permits interconnect to the PWB below and for low power SOC device a memory chip
on top or a heat sink of both... In the day IBM ECL (emitter coupled logic) systems used
tricks like spring loaded thermal plungers and a module filled with helium (Google IBM TCM)
to keep the astounding amounts of heat produced by ECL in check. S. Cray (his teams) was another
master of heat management. Some of the Cray machines looked like the hardware store
for a dairy farm. They used a lot of stainless steel from milk process equipment to pump fluids
through the system for heat management.
the
Not to mention many out there feel a browser should not use more than 4 gigs of ram and is a light text and graphics reader.
Having a >4GB footprint is not the only reason to move to a 64-bit address space. As more software becomes 64-bit, those legacy 32-bit apps become more of a problem, both in terms of longer application launch times (because the 32-bit library stack that it uses isn't loaded initially) and in terms of added memory pressure (because of all those unnecessary libraries loaded into RAM).
Larger than 4GB footprint... not the issue.
The register use calling conventions in 64 bit mode are
richer and faster.
That means Firefox will still be limited to 4 PiB, which I'm sure it'll be reaching by the release of Firefox 12,458 next year. We need a 128-bit version.
Naw...
it is two things. Cleaner code and the lack of 32bit library cruft in a system.
However plugins like flash and even Java32-.vs.-Java64 make me think
that well flash is crud and Java not as portable as it should/could be.
T-mobile just happens to have better coverage here. If you get an unlocked iPhone they can give you edge coverage. I have started using an old Samsung 3G phone for voice. Data is WiFi for now but I can tell you that as soon as I am contract free I will be looking hard at changing 100% from the A&someting company.
Smart phones are not smart choices for folk that want a phone
If Megaupload did hurt box office sales, then they obviously hosted lots of pirated material. This is against how the pirates are saying that Megaupload was mostly used for non-piracy related files. So did they host mainly pirated movies etc or did it not?
Not obvious. What if the time saving and efficiency for sales and collaborative work generated free time as well as income so box office numbers could improve.
I was gobsmacked by the number of micro processor projects that used it to share code images and tools. ARM, ATmega, AVR, Beagleboard, Android, and many more.
Not to mention that destroying a nuke over a populated area still lets it do significant damage in the long term.
Maybe it does, and maybe it doesn't. These nukes have a lot of safety features packed into them. You certainly wouldn't want it to do a high atmosphere detonation because its EMP will have far reaching effects (satellites could be destroyed), and because it may cause a chain reaction with other missiles in the general vicinity. The worst case is that it may rain down some fissionable materials over who knows where. Its unlikely to cause a detonation, especially since these detonations have to be very controlled to create fission.
Good point yet incomplete,. Current nukes have a set of safety features but that does not constrain future devices. The important point is the current interceptions involve quite conventional and modest payloads. Should someone decide to begin tossing nuclear devices at Israel I would bet a detonation at altitude would be desired. Dirty nuclear devices as well as biological devices that are dispersing in contrast to detonating+destructive in design would also mandate game changes.
If content creators embedded graphics and text in the article I'd be fine with that. I don't expect to tear pages out of a magazine before I read it and those suckers are full of ads. The problem is, as you ably stated, the animated crap. I've had access to ad-skipping on TV for around a decade. I can not watch TV advertisements. I will leave a room and rest my fevered brow against an exterior wall before I'll watch one. Unless I hear about a clever ad then I'll trawl Youtube until I find it. So, in summary, make better ads.
For me it not the adds but the time and repetition.
I am watching an on demand version of a one hour program. It is 45 min long and STILL has imbedded add content. If this goes to court I hope the defense stops very seven min plays LOUD music, presents banners and otherwise holds the court hostage. Further they should demand TV coverage and demand that their defense funding commercials not be cut.
Essentially, a property owner/renter "owns" the airspace up to about 500-ft (150m).
And no, that doesn't mean you can take pot-shots at passenger aircraft. Unmanned drones I would think are another story.
Thanks for the link g-man...
I suspect there is a possible challenge here. Hovering over business and home is not a fly over. It is entering and staying... By hovering the interloper creates a hazard for other craft regulated and covered by the 500 foot rule. As helicopter pilots covering the news the skill of pilots is challenged as the density of aircraft builds up. Thus hovering and occupying in a static or near static way is prohibited by the same rule that prohibits stakes and barrage balloon fences.
Not that it gives the rights to engage in gunfire but an injunction for sure.
Slashdot Mirror
If the threat of the police coming to look at what you've done is enough to make you sign something, you were doing something you knew was wrong in any case.
Not clear.... no one wants to be placed under the magnifying glass. What if he or his parents smoke pot? What if he has a couple Costco size boxes of zip lock bags.
Ideally a professor on a committee with expulsion power is tenured. (No idea if that is true here)
However, it sounds like you think it's more likely that 14 people were coerced than a 20 year old would omit part of his story. Have you found large scale coercion more common than lies of omission?
Coercion may not apply here. The gang of 14 may have simply ruled that rule 206978.00981.3.1415 was clearly violated. Consequences then followed.
There are times when the equivalent of "jury nullification" should apply.
Was the gang of 14 a flock of sheep or knowledgeable informed individuals.
Informed of the entire issue -- doubtful, knowledgeable perhaps.
I'm fascinated by the adversarial attitude the college administration appears to have towards their students. I mean unless there's more to this story than we know about, like he made suggestive comments about the press or threatened them first, they apparently made him sign an NDA and booted him when they felt he had no recourse.
I'd have very serious questions about the ethical or even social ability of these people to operate a third level institution. It strikes me as classic CYA from middle management with extreme prejuidice, which typically indicates angry disconnected shut-ins in the back room. Well, either that or aloof disconnected gentlemen's clubs in the back room. Same result either way. It's not a learning environment from their perspective, it's a simmering cauldron of unpleasantness that must be kept strictly under control lest it get in the way of money.
Dear Fascinated;
Consider the result of decades of zero tolerance in US K-12 education.
Zero tolerance is indistinguishable from bigotry, intolerance, bullying and many other problems it intends to solve....
Compensation can have many faces but if the compensation is "we will not persecute"... well coercion is not legal.
Since he had money and time invested in the system he does have rights to follow up. Unless he is compensated to a degree that matches his investment. I am talking serious bucks here because the potential earning bump from a quality education is large.
An NDA in the context of a serious job interview can make sense. Bring your own complementary NDA that covers your loss should you discuss novel and interesting solutions to code tests, discussions involving their product, etc...
My bank has public facing computers. If I were to find and exploit a way to access other people's banking data, I'm pretty sure there'd be hell to pay.
I'm pretty sure the US and UK both have laws that would prevent access beyond your authorization. I'd be astonished if Canada did not have similar legislation.
Your bank gets scanned several times an hour (if not several times a minute) by half the blackhats and scriptkiddies of the globe, and nobody in the banks IT dept. would be dumb enough to bitch about it, because they know its natural on a public-facing system.
Simply scanning your bank and reporting your findings to them, is unlikely to get you in "hell" ... unless
r
There is an interesting quandary here.
If I walk into a bank I can make a visual inspection to see if they have locks. I can see the vault door, I can see FDIC or the lack of FDIC assertions. I can research the banks financials and research the validity of any insurance claim.
Now can I do an inspection "scan" to make like discoveries. Can I look at the API/ABI and inspect for flaws that my personal expert experiences tell me to look for?
Disclosure is a wildly different tangle. Should you discover a problem and disclose it in confidence to the authorities there should be no consequence. However who is the authority and who should be notified and how. I would assert() that disclosure is a moral obligation that should be PROTECTED by the law. Non-disclosure seems safe up to the point that in the modern data mining world the act of discovery will leave footprints that cannot be erased and would open anyone up to prosecution/persecution should a pre zero day exploit surface.
Above I used the word expert. In my experience a competent novice is most likely to stumble on interesting flaws. They tend to write naive code that triggers bug after bug. Experts tend to write quality code block after block, checking return value, not overloading variables or functions and not employing the last bit of trickery discussed in class.
Given the data transfer mandates to the TLA centers it makes complying with the law and regulators less vexing if your location is In No. VA.
Your plan would require the crew to check every single device on the aircraft for certification and make sure people didn't use uncertified ones. It would be far easier to just confirm what we pretty much know - that planes are not affected by consumer wireless devices at all, or if they are fix them. That would bring additional safety from people forgetting to turn devices off as well.
Also the FAA is responsible for a relatively small part of the international air travel market. Any solution will have to be internationally agreed, especially since most long haul flights are between two different countries. For example Japanese wifi can go up to channel 13. This is what international standards bodies are for.
Give that man a cigar! WiFi and ground radar in the U.S. do overlap. That is why channel 13 is disabled here. Other nations use different bands so there is no collision.
In a previous job I was doing FCC evaluation of a cool new 68000 computer. I could not get repeated qualifying data. Pulling my hair out I took a walk... Then I noticed the SR-71 on the runway not too far away. Seems they had been doing touch and go landings all morning. Apparently they had electronics fired up so no one could gather any radar profile data, or something. Made the spectrum analyzer light up to no end.. The same computer a year later kept crashing on a flight line. Nothing made sense until the customer asked if a radar that would kill a rabbit at fifty paces (like a captured MIG) could cause interference. ;-)
Turkey, 3.3
Uzbekistan, 3.1
Cambodia, 3.4
Niger, 3.8 (the poorest country on the planet)
Afghanistan, 2.4 (war casualties excluded)
Syria, 2.2 (again, war casualties excluded)
Jordan, 1.8
Sri Lanka, 3.6
Iran, 3.0
Bangladesh, 2.7
China, 1.0
Egypt, 1.2
Western Europe, average 1.0
So yes, the US murder rate is unparalleled for a developed nation, and much closer to that of poor or half-failed countries. Of course if you drag into the picture narcorepublics and countries that are more like institutionalised criminal syndicates than republics, the statistics look a bit better, but it's like putting lipstick on a pig—it's still 4.2 by 100k.
Excluding war casualties, yes please, including the War on Drugs. The WOD is an evil and fuels a billion dollar industry outside of the rule of law. Poverty and WOD is a disaster worse than global warming. It does not respect boundaries, it is a global evil.
This is just a great example of responsible journalism. Now the criminals know exactly where to go to get firearms that will never be traced back to them.
Yes, it is also a list that a good samaritan could use to send informative letter to.
Dear Sir or Madam, your name and address has been published, it makes sense to improve your locks and doors. Attached are instruction on how to file in small claims court to recover that damage to you. The small claims court limit is: xxxx
That would keep a staff well employed.. Failure to appear is not an option. Free speech does not cover irresponsible actions.
They could be targeted by anti-gun zealots. It's like publishing a map which pinpoints where the jews are. Maybe they should put a star on their houses.
.....You're comparing jews to guns?
In modern history BOTH were compiled into lists and destroyed.
Yup, first amendment vs second amendment. It is funny to see those gun owners who run to the amendment, get outed by the one right above it. Really gun owners.... really?
Forget the lists of "gun owners", I want a list of the people being prescribed SSRIs. You want to find a link between "mass shootings" and something, you need look no farther..
Caution you may find that this is a fragile indicator. Lots of people have been helped AND the science is improving. The knee in your curve also has a temporal relationship to anti tobacco regulations and compliance to these regulations.
Tobacco was the sedative or the masses. We had generations that lived happy addicted lives. In many of the poster child nations held up as having low mass murder rates, it still is.
I would assert that nicotine is under proscribed and prescribed.
We do need improvements on the drugs for healthy brains and aspertain ain't it. No matter how sweet it is. Also put sugar and artificial sweeteners in your graph. I bet they line up too.
If someone used voter registration rolls to publish a map of all registered black voters, would that be a 1st Amendment vs 14th Amendment issue, or would that be a 1st Amendment vs privacy issue?
Interesting, the Obama for president organization created a map based iPhone application of registered voters. Door to door canvassers knew who, what and where as they organized free transportation for "their team". There are rumors of scalawag actions that kept some home too. Massive, political lists are a massive risks, ready for abuse. The last couple elections simply gamed the system. There are no protections from massive abuse.
Bingo, murdering .grandma. Is a red flag.
I cannot condone his release.
We now have identified two insane people.
One sits on the payroll board and should have his info made public.
This irresponsible act can and should be used to squash any registration process.
Almost all the witnesses are dead and gone but step one in Germany was a registration list.
Step two confiscate all the weapons in the ghettos.
Step three ship men women and children to labour camps.
Step four when the camps were full, exterminate the excess.
There are three reasons to own and bear arms.
Sport (hunting, targets)
Personal defense of family and property.
Third is protection from tyrants, tyranny and government (local, state, national) gone insane.
The third is interesting in the context of the war on drugs. The war on drugs has created a world outside the law. Law outside the law in fact. In many places the drug lords rule this government, in some cases the reach is national and international.
Should I have been a witness to a recent local murder I would want to be armed. Should I be called to sit in judgement as a juror, I would want to be armed. And I live in a good neighborhood.
They recently taped out a Cortex-A7 processor with this technology, calling it a significant milestone for the fabless ecosystem."
I'm very good at the English language but I have no idea what this means. How do you 'tape out' a processor? What's a 'fabless ecosystem'? (The rainforests are rather wonderful, I hear.)
There are many steps in the design of any modern digital device. Transferring information from step to step was often accomplished with a digital tape(s) full of files. When one step finishes they send a tape out to the next step. Thus "tape out".
The first steps are often logical and classic designs were done on yellow pads of paper by hand. S. Cray was famous for this. This is where the data bus details are set down. Think of it as the primary.h file for the hardware.
Other steps are silicon to transistor and transistor to basic gate lay out. These are often the magic of the silicon fabrication houses and differ from one to another and change in subtle ways so they can be made. This magic can involve subtle interference figures that light at the sub-nanometer level has and is specific to the wavelength and purity of the light sources, thickness of mask materials and a thousand other details.
The mask is often generated from register-transfer level (RTL) files. Google searching for RTL design flow will open some doors.
The RTL is often generated from a very high level hardware description language, VHDL... This is where the yellow pad design and the tool chain first interact for many designs.
Some designs depend on purchased blobs of logic. That intellectual property (IP) can be RTL or VHDL or some mix. The ARM processor world is a sea of IP glued together on a basic bus architecture. The bus arch. of many processors is a lot like system buses once were. Look at things like the VME bus specifications most of which can be found on the web. The VME specification has dimensions, power, voltages, signal levels, timing, handshakes and more. Today system on a chip designs are a lot like the older bus based systems. A VME bus system house would buy a disk controller (think IP blob) add memory boards (think IP blob again) etc...
Back to "tape out"... I think CrankyFool in post (#42377687) below has it right. Today the files are sent via scp or ftp. In the early days a physical magnetic tape was sent. Taping out can cover a lot of steps. The files to make a printed wiring board could be taped out. The machine shop instructions for a case/ chassis could eventually be taped out and numerically controlled machines happened.
The machine shop process is a good example. Start with a casting. The fire and smoke of a smelter and molten iron/ brass/ zinc is a specialized world. The castings would then ship to a machine shop where mating surfaces would be cut to precise specifications holes tapped for bolts. Then off to the engine assembly where different parts from different materials like crank shafts, would be assembled....
Computer chips would often move from the silicon foundry to a test step, then to a package vendor/ house to be mated with a specialized package. Today a package is itself a complex device that bonds out pads on the silicon up/ down/ left right in a way that manages thermal needs and permits interconnect to the PWB below and for low power SOC device a memory chip on top or a heat sink of both... In the day IBM ECL (emitter coupled logic) systems used tricks like spring loaded thermal plungers and a module filled with helium (Google IBM TCM) to keep the astounding amounts of heat produced by ECL in check. S. Cray (his teams) was another master of heat management. Some of the Cray machines looked like the hardware store for a dairy farm. They used a lot of stainless steel from milk process equipment to pump fluids through the system for heat management. the
Having a >4GB footprint is not the only reason to move to a 64-bit address space. As more software becomes 64-bit, those legacy 32-bit apps become more of a problem, both in terms of longer application launch times (because the 32-bit library stack that it uses isn't loaded initially) and in terms of added memory pressure (because of all those unnecessary libraries loaded into RAM).
Larger than 4GB footprint ... not the issue.
The register use calling conventions in 64 bit mode are richer and faster.
That means Firefox will still be limited to 4 PiB, which I'm sure it'll be reaching by the release of Firefox 12,458 next year. We need a 128-bit version.
Naw... it is two things. Cleaner code and the lack of 32bit library cruft in a system. However plugins like flash and even Java32-.vs.-Java64 make me think that well flash is crud and Java not as portable as it should/could be.
I assert()....
The exception handler needs an exception handler...
Remember it is turtles all the way down.
Frogs jumping over frogs and toads.
T-mobile just happens to have better coverage here.
If you get an unlocked iPhone they can give you edge
coverage. I have started using an old Samsung 3G
phone for voice. Data is WiFi for now but I can tell
you that as soon as I am contract free I will be looking
hard at changing 100% from the A&someting company.
Smart phones are not smart choices for folk that want a
phone
Bread mold is not in the same toxin league as salmonella yet
the article mentions both. I hate news outlets that do this...
And, Stale bread has nothing to do with mold. It has to do
with the starches and time (like 48 hours).
Still there are foods and processes where this trick has
great potential in the limited and isolated bit of the food chain that I know
anything about.
The real problem is that it will take 21 years for the FDA to give it
the go ahead and the patent window will have passed.
If Megaupload did hurt box office sales, then they obviously hosted lots of pirated material. This is against how the pirates are saying that Megaupload was mostly used for non-piracy related files. So did they host mainly pirated movies etc or did it not?
Not obvious. What if the time saving and efficiency for sales and collaborative work generated free time as well as income so box office numbers could improve.
I was gobsmacked by the number of micro processor projects that used it to share code images and tools. ARM, ATmega, AVR, Beagleboard, Android, and many more.
Not to mention that destroying a nuke over a populated area still lets it do significant damage in the long term.
Maybe it does, and maybe it doesn't. These nukes have a lot of safety features packed into them. You certainly wouldn't want it to do a high atmosphere detonation because its EMP will have far reaching effects (satellites could be destroyed), and because it may cause a chain reaction with other missiles in the general vicinity. The worst case is that it may rain down some fissionable materials over who knows where. Its unlikely to cause a detonation, especially since these detonations have to be very controlled to create fission.
Good point yet incomplete,. Current nukes have a set of safety features but that does not constrain future devices. The important point is the current interceptions involve quite conventional and modest payloads. Should someone decide to begin tossing nuclear devices at Israel I would bet a detonation at altitude would be desired. Dirty nuclear devices as well as biological devices that are dispersing in contrast to detonating+destructive in design would also mandate game changes.
If content creators embedded graphics and text in the article I'd be fine with that. I don't expect to tear pages out of a magazine before I read it and those suckers are full of ads. The problem is, as you ably stated, the animated crap. I've had access to ad-skipping on TV for around a decade. I can not watch TV advertisements. I will leave a room and rest my fevered brow against an exterior wall before I'll watch one. Unless I hear about a clever ad then I'll trawl Youtube until I find it. So, in summary, make better ads.
For me it not the adds but the time and repetition.
I am watching an on demand version of a one hour program. It is 45 min long and STILL has imbedded add content. If this goes to court I hope the defense stops very seven min plays LOUD music, presents banners and otherwise holds the court hostage. Further they should demand TV coverage and demand that their defense funding commercials not be cut.
No, check out Air Rights.
Beat me to it.
Essentially, a property owner/renter "owns" the airspace up to about 500-ft (150m).
And no, that doesn't mean you can take pot-shots at passenger aircraft. Unmanned drones I would think are another story.
Thanks for the link g-man ...
I suspect there is a possible challenge here. Hovering over business and home is not a fly over.
It is entering and staying... By hovering the interloper creates a hazard for other craft regulated
and covered by the 500 foot rule. As helicopter pilots covering the news the skill of pilots
is challenged as the density of aircraft builds up. Thus hovering and occupying in a static or
near static way is prohibited by the same rule that prohibits stakes and barrage balloon fences.
Not that it gives the rights to engage in gunfire but an injunction for sure.