This is a quantum effect, so the electon would appear across the interface if it tunneled. Me thinks there is no "time" delay in this travel, so it propogated in 0 time, and thus beat the speed of light for the thickness of the interface.
Actually, the suites are also required in the SR-71's slower high altitude sibling, the U-2/TR-1 . At 65,000' it fairly close to to being in a vacuum. (btw. the U-2 has an unpressurized cabin).
to get back on topic, I thought I'd scrap together two other sites that try to pear into the deep blackness. First is Mark Wades, Encyclopedia Astronautica . One of the most complete space history sites on the net (except for the.mov files, nothing on deepcold is not on Encyclopedia Astronautica in more detail). The other The Federation of American Scientists is an excellent source on everything black.
On the scale of 1 to 10 Red Herrings, I give those sites an 11, I give deepcold half a herring head.
This biggest problem with mission critical code is it needs to be designed arround the belief that every thing is going wrong other wise you end up being unable to handle any problems (aka : the mars polar lander).
Or am I the only geek that read more than the summary of the reports released on the loss...
Ever notice the life support clauses in most comercial compilers for non-realtime OS's? the usual line in most microsoft end user agreements :
The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is not fault-tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or resale as on-line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines, or weapons systems, in which the failure of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.
Just do a search of the MS site for "life support". That one was ripped from the IE 4 end user agreement .
Actually AT&T really blew the whole Unix thing, and this is why we have BSD and tux. It succeeded despite the evil death star.
And my first computer was a Tab 132 dumb terminal that I dialed into the school's vaxen with. My first computer with an OS was a used AT&T 3b1 that I didn't retire until about 95.
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on a scale of 1 to 10 I'll give links to Mr. Ritchie's pages 11 herring heads. This is what the web is ment for...
30 ft CEP? I thought it was more like 100 meters for civilian and 16 meters for military... a quick google search pulls up the Global Positioning System Overview displays the following... (Civilian) SPS Predictable Accuracy 100 meter horizontal accuracy 156 meter vertical accuracy 340 nanoseconds time accuracy. TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
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The good always get fired first, because the slackers have time to bow and kiss the penguin.
You kiss the penguin you don't get fired!!!
Hopefully they find another paying GPL'd job soon.
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FreeBSD is dead ...
long live the PIC assembler
unfortantly it's the "poor" marketing types that we need to convert to open the GPL flood gates... and divert the GPF flood back into the sewer.
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Just look at my mother, hasn't had a permant programming job in 10 years. They will only hire her to program as a temp.
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Makes me wonder about electron tunneling...
This is a quantum effect, so the electon would appear across the interface if it tunneled. Me thinks there is no "time" delay in this travel, so it propogated in 0 time, and thus beat the speed of light for the thickness of the interface.
Or I might just be blowing penguins out my @$$...
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Just do what I do, provide a random account name (sdjkgfisugfe) a random password (*******), and a bogus email address (CmdrTaco@slashdot.org).
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Actually, the suites are also required in the SR-71's slower high altitude sibling, the U-2/TR-1 . At 65,000' it fairly close to to being in a vacuum. (btw. the U-2 has an unpressurized cabin).
.mov files, nothing on deepcold is not on Encyclopedia Astronautica in more detail). The other The Federation of American Scientists is an excellent source on everything black.
to get back on topic, I thought I'd scrap together two other sites that try to pear into the deep blackness. First is Mark Wades, Encyclopedia Astronautica . One of the most complete space history sites on the net (except for the
On the scale of 1 to 10 Red Herrings, I give those sites an 11, I give deepcold half a herring head.
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well when I pay $200,000 for a piece of software I demand the home number of the programmer.
Another trend is to install PC anywhere on the users PC and trouble shoot from there.
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You right PDF could be so much more than it is...
A trick I've been doing with my software has been to include a PDF of the manual on the software CD. We still send the manual.
Of course for a manual to be usefull it as ta bee good writen (something most manuals lack)
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This biggest problem with mission critical code is it needs to be designed arround the belief that every thing is going wrong other wise you end up being unable to handle any problems (aka : the mars polar lander).
Or am I the only geek that read more than the summary of the reports released on the loss...
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a buggy OS used for mission critical systems...
Think Not!
Ever notice the life support clauses in most comercial compilers for non-realtime OS's?
the usual line in most microsoft end user agreements :
The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is not fault-tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or resale as on-line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines, or weapons systems, in which the failure of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.
Just do a search of the MS site for "life support". That one was ripped from the IE 4 end user agreement .
Sorry no wince powered porn sites for NASA...
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and what year did Compaq aka Digital stop producing the PDP-11? 19 - ninety - what?
...
It has had one of the longest production runs for computer.
Now the IBM XT we run 24/7 for testing optics is due for an upgrade
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Actually AT&T really blew the whole Unix thing, and this is why we have BSD and tux. It succeeded despite the evil death star.
And my first computer was a Tab 132 dumb terminal that I dialed into the school's vaxen with.
My first computer with an OS was a used AT&T 3b1 that I didn't retire until about 95.
TastesLikeHErringFlavoredChicken
on a scale of 1 to 10 I'll give links to Mr. Ritchie's pages 11 herring heads. This is what the web is ment for...
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.rtfm would solve many of the worlds ill's. Someone has a question, point them to http://buy.a.clue.rtfm
Smiley dot...
a top level of
It's a whole buisness model...
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30 ft CEP? I thought it was more like 100 meters for civilian and 16 meters for military... a quick google search pulls up the Global Positioning System Overview displays the following... (Civilian) SPS Predictable Accuracy 100 meter horizontal accuracy 156 meter vertical accuracy 340 nanoseconds time accuracy. TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
I thought it was Bill Gates... ... You mean the dot in dot com isn't a windows 2000 box ? TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
My biggest problem with that aproach is this.
... So they stop funding PDQ which may do the same thing (maybe even cheaper and better)
Investors hear the goverment is funding development of XYZ...
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