Perhaps you have never been side swiped by someone who failed to stop at a red light or stop sign? It can be much worse when you are a pedestrian, bicyclist or motorcyclist without a steel cage to protect you. You might think differently then.
No, I think we lost the Corporate America looks only to squeeze the most profit out of consumers war. I expect the push for short term investor returns overrides the long term investment required for providing good service.
It would have been much more impressive if he used the cleaver to do the trimming with one handed swings instead of just using it to scribe lines. Even better if he could do it from memory freehand without a sample to guide him.
Sun's service has been sliding for some time now. Oracle appears to be accelerating that decline. We had some RAIDs, originally purchased from StorageTek before the Sun acquisition, come off of the three year warranty they were purchased with. We've been unable to get Sun (now Oracle) to recognize the RAID's serial numbers to get them on the maintenance contract for quite some time now. You'd think Oracle would want our money?
Perhaps in 1790 that's all the census needed to know (that and how may slaves you owned), but it's a far different situation now.
Bullshit. The federal government does not need to know this information at all. The purpose of the federal government is not to provide a "nanny state", which is what many in congress seem to think.
Actually they do when you need to store petabytes to exabytes of data with very little power and you can tolerate the latencies due to tape mounts. Current enterprise class tape devices are capable of 100 MB/sec easy. The main problem, as with any storage device, is that they have a limited lifetime and if you wish to keep your data beyond that lifetime, you have to keep oozing the data to new media.
I agree, when the tapes are stored in proper environmental conditions. You don't need a library, just use some stand alone tape drives. Also look at the claimed media lifetime and recovered bit error rate figures to see if you are choosing the right tape drive/media.
Because good data structures and their associated algorithms are important, your next step could be to pick up a decent book on them such as Algorithms in Java by Robert Sedgewick. He also has the equivallent books for C and C++.
With the latest Kindle 2 firmware, I can get almost 2 weeks of heavy reading on a charge (with the wireless turned off for most of that time). Thus displaying the "screensavers" really doesn't impact the usability.
But the best programmers do not write 10x as many lines of code
I beg to differ, since the worst programmers manage to avoid work by dumping it off on someone else when they are in a position to do so, the best programmers write much more than 10x the lines of code than the worst ones.
Presumably voice traffic has priority over the data traffic? Do the individual cell towers have enough smarts to be able to identify emergency call traffic?
I have a full office (walls, door) where I work, and I still need to use headphones because of the sound conduction through the wall and suspended tile ceiling, and I only have to deal with one person in the adjacent office, but sometimes it is due to people blabbing out in the hallway. I find that certain types of music are conducive to my concentration if I am programming, and if I am not programming, more types of music are also acceptable.
A few people are trying to get emulators going, the biggest problem is the lack of documentation of the peripheral hardware interfaces used on Multics capable systems. Check out the archives of the alt.os.multics news group.
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You missed the sarcasm of the OP.
Sporks have never left, they still lurk among us if you know where to look.
Fines for no-harm-no-foul rolling stops bug me
Perhaps you have never been side swiped by someone who failed to stop at a red light or stop sign? It can be much worse when you are a pedestrian, bicyclist or motorcyclist without a steel cage to protect you. You might think differently then.
If these prove to be dust particles from the asteroid, this will be a big step for mankind.
Yes, we'll have found yet another place that needs vacuuming.
Oh, yeah, we definitely won that Cold War.
No, I think we lost the Corporate America looks only to squeeze the most profit out of consumers war. I expect the push for short term investor returns overrides the long term investment required for providing good service.
The units work fine, and will be decommissioned early next calendar year. No need to replace them.
b) has demonstrated significant skill in its use.
It would have been much more impressive if he used the cleaver to do the trimming with one handed swings instead of just using it to scribe lines. Even better if he could do it from memory freehand without a sample to guide him.
Sun's service has been sliding for some time now. Oracle appears to be accelerating that decline. We had some RAIDs, originally purchased from StorageTek before the Sun acquisition, come off of the three year warranty they were purchased with. We've been unable to get Sun (now Oracle) to recognize the RAID's serial numbers to get them on the maintenance contract for quite some time now. You'd think Oracle would want our money?
Thanks for the great laugh! I think that "Dances with Smurfs" captures the feeling of the movie in three words!
It isn't. Look up Orbital Node on Wikipedia for a description about what descending node means.
Perhaps in 1790 that's all the census needed to know (that and how may slaves you owned), but it's a far different situation now.
Bullshit. The federal government does not need to know this information at all. The purpose of the federal government is not to provide a "nanny state", which is what many in congress seem to think.
Tapes don't really have a niche anymore
Actually they do when you need to store petabytes to exabytes of data with very little power and you can tolerate the latencies due to tape mounts. Current enterprise class tape devices are capable of 100 MB/sec easy. The main problem, as with any storage device, is that they have a limited lifetime and if you wish to keep your data beyond that lifetime, you have to keep oozing the data to new media.
Looks like business as usual to me.
I agree, when the tapes are stored in proper environmental conditions. You don't need a library, just use some stand alone tape drives. Also look at the claimed media lifetime and recovered bit error rate figures to see if you are choosing the right tape drive/media.
Because good data structures and their associated algorithms are important, your next step could be to pick up a decent book on them such as Algorithms in Java by Robert Sedgewick. He also has the equivallent books for C and C++.
Here is the X48 emulator home page. I fire this up when I don't have my real 48SX with me.
With the latest Kindle 2 firmware, I can get almost 2 weeks of heavy reading on a charge (with the wireless turned off for most of that time). Thus displaying the "screensavers" really doesn't impact the usability.
http://www.pppl.gov/PPPLnews101.cfm
But the best programmers do not write 10x as many lines of code
I beg to differ, since the worst programmers manage to avoid work by dumping it off on someone else when they are in a position to do so, the best programmers write much more than 10x the lines of code than the worst ones.
Let's hope it stays that way, 'cause we don't need his genes propagating.
If he did this for about $300, its really amazing. The CGI is really nicely done.
Presumably voice traffic has priority over the data traffic? Do the individual cell towers have enough smarts to be able to identify emergency call traffic?
I have a full office (walls, door) where I work, and I still need to use headphones because of the sound conduction through the wall and suspended tile ceiling, and I only have to deal with one person in the adjacent office, but sometimes it is due to people blabbing out in the hallway. I find that certain types of music are conducive to my concentration if I am programming, and if I am not programming, more types of music are also acceptable.
Isn't he a riot! Stop in often, tell your friends to come!
A few people are trying to get emulators going, the biggest problem is the lack of documentation of the peripheral hardware interfaces used on Multics capable systems. Check out the archives of the alt.os.multics news group.