The NCAR Mass Store (tape archive) had an expiration period attribute (units of days) on the bitfiles. The default, if not specified was 30 days, which effectively made it a temporary file. Expiration periods of 31 days or more were considered more permanent, and the owners would receive email two weeks and one week before the projected expiration date arrived. Expiration processing was run each Sunday, and the bitfiles were moved into the trash, from which they could be recovered for another 30 days before they were permanently deleted. This was in the mid-eighties.
I've always thought a piano-style chording keyboard for the desk would be nice, having musical training. In the past, I've not seen any that caught my fancy. I do have an older Twiddler, but that version didn't appear to be quite usable for me due to a restriction on the modifier keys that could be generated.
Hmm for the cost of the in dash GPS on my wife's car, well into the 4 digits, I could afford a chartered helicopter flight...
You failed to amortized the cost of the GPS among all of the trips taken by the car, which brings the cost per trip down, unlike your example of a single expensive trip via chartered aircraft.
F it I'll just use my wife's phone GPS to navigate us, which doesn't even lock out when the car is in motion unlike a POS in-dash GPS.
Now that's a real reason to dislike the expensive POS in-dash GPS with its crippled functionality imposed by lawyers.
Unfortunately for those who are really into the details of a subject area, it can be next to impossible for the gift givers who are not also into those details to determine what would be a meaningful gift, especially of the recipient can afford to purchase their own items whenever they want, and they do so.
Is this something that can be partially avoided by using Itanium processors instead of X86? Or has all of the reliability stuff been included in the recent Xenon chips?
No, not related to the processor, just a specific inter-node interconnect fabric implementation. The moral of the story is: just be aware that buying stuff that has just become available and trying to deploy it at scales well beyond what others (including the vendor) have done before leads to an effectively experimental configuration, and is not one that you should expect to behave like a production environment should for a period of time until the kinks are worked out. Of course, this plays hell with the overly optimistic schedules management thought should be achievable.
The reality of hegemonous computing is that failure is almost of no concern. If you have 1/1000 nodes fail, you lose 1/1000th of your capability. Everything doesn't just instantly crash down.
You might think so, but I've seen a configuration with an interconnect fabric that was extremely sensitive to the fallback of individual links to the next lower link speed cause all sorts of havoc cluster wide.
I still enjoy playing nethack every so often.
One day my brother had me show my niece and nephew a nethack game. At first they couldn't believe games were so crude in the old days, but then they started getting into the game play after a bit.
The facility is mainly cooled by the ambient air, except for the hottest days of summer. Despite the approximately 30x increase in compute capacity, the Yellowstone cluster only requires not quite 2x the electric power of the previous system, Bluefire, a Power 6 based cluster.
Have you even asked the local government about a lock for the gate that both you and they have a key for? Here in Boulder County (CO), there are some fire roads that are normally locked to prevent idiots from going where they have no business being.
The word 'jerk' has gone through a transformation from when it started. First it was someone cool, then it was someone who behaves strangely (when that movie was made) and now it means someone completely rude and annoying.
When I was growing up (before the movie) in our neck of the woods, a jerk, as applied to a person, always had the third meaning (rude, annoying), unless one was referring to a "soda jerk" in old time movies. I've never heard of the other meanings, and even my Merriam Webster dictionary doesn't define the other meanings you gave, not even in a historical context. But I'm not surprised either, as all sorts of regionalisms exist that I've never heard of (especially when doing NYT crosswords).
$20K+ and there's no 4K content? Yeah, that makes lots of sense.
Didn't you learn anything from all of the myriad CSI variants? All you need to do is up-sample and details will magically appear, which you will then display on your extra pixels. I think the term formerly used by the ancients used to be called "spontaneous generation", but they applied that to insects and such.
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Just be sure that the "under desk" part doesn't just refer to a place where it can be stored while not in use.
If Microsoft want me to use their documentation they better make sure google indexes it in a way than matches my queries.
Perhaps you should switch to using Bing, then your query responses might match up with what Microsoft wants? :-)
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The NCAR Mass Store (tape archive) had an expiration period attribute (units of days) on the bitfiles. The default, if not specified was 30 days, which effectively made it a temporary file. Expiration periods of 31 days or more were considered more permanent, and the owners would receive email two weeks and one week before the projected expiration date arrived. Expiration processing was run each Sunday, and the bitfiles were moved into the trash, from which they could be recovered for another 30 days before they were permanently deleted. This was in the mid-eighties.
You can do a direct conversion SDR with a suitable speedy DSP, or even a fast CPU at HF.
I've always thought a piano-style chording keyboard for the desk would be nice, having musical training. In the past, I've not seen any that caught my fancy. I do have an older Twiddler, but that version didn't appear to be quite usable for me due to a restriction on the modifier keys that could be generated.
I thought hammers have been known for centuries, how did they manage a patent on that?
It conjures up images of some kind of celestial primate flinging high energy particles about.
At least that's better than the stuff they usually fling around...
Those sneaky sharks, with their lasers, probably removed the two longest arms.
Hmm for the cost of the in dash GPS on my wife's car, well into the 4 digits, I could afford a chartered helicopter flight ...
You failed to amortized the cost of the GPS among all of the trips taken by the car, which brings the cost per trip down, unlike your example of a single expensive trip via chartered aircraft.
F it I'll just use my wife's phone GPS to navigate us, which doesn't even lock out when the car is in motion unlike a POS in-dash GPS.
Now that's a real reason to dislike the expensive POS in-dash GPS with its crippled functionality imposed by lawyers.
Unfortunately for those who are really into the details of a subject area, it can be next to impossible for the gift givers who are not also into those details to determine what would be a meaningful gift, especially of the recipient can afford to purchase their own items whenever they want, and they do so.
Is this something that can be partially avoided by using Itanium processors instead of X86? Or has all of the reliability stuff been included in the recent Xenon chips?
No, not related to the processor, just a specific inter-node interconnect fabric implementation. The moral of the story is: just be aware that buying stuff that has just become available and trying to deploy it at scales well beyond what others (including the vendor) have done before leads to an effectively experimental configuration, and is not one that you should expect to behave like a production environment should for a period of time until the kinks are worked out. Of course, this plays hell with the overly optimistic schedules management thought should be achievable.
The reality of hegemonous computing is that failure is almost of no concern. If you have 1/1000 nodes fail, you lose 1/1000th of your capability. Everything doesn't just instantly crash down.
You might think so, but I've seen a configuration with an interconnect fabric that was extremely sensitive to the fallback of individual links to the next lower link speed cause all sorts of havoc cluster wide.
Ever heard of "squab"?
If you had bothered to watch the video, you would have seen that there are two image sensors that capture two pages a pass.
Great, now I'll have to put the tin foil hat inside my skull....
nethack is a hardcore video game
I still enjoy playing nethack every so often. One day my brother had me show my niece and nephew a nethack game. At first they couldn't believe games were so crude in the old days, but then they started getting into the game play after a bit.
Why would anyone in their right mind place generators and tanks below ground where flooding would be an issue?
And the Huffington Post is still down!
And nothing of any value will be missed while it remains down.
The facility is mainly cooled by the ambient air, except for the hottest days of summer. Despite the approximately 30x increase in compute capacity, the Yellowstone cluster only requires not quite 2x the electric power of the previous system, Bluefire, a Power 6 based cluster.
Have you even asked the local government about a lock for the gate that both you and they have a key for? Here in Boulder County (CO), there are some fire roads that are normally locked to prevent idiots from going where they have no business being.
The word 'jerk' has gone through a transformation from when it started. First it was someone cool, then it was someone who behaves strangely (when that movie was made) and now it means someone completely rude and annoying.
When I was growing up (before the movie) in our neck of the woods, a jerk, as applied to a person, always had the third meaning (rude, annoying), unless one was referring to a "soda jerk" in old time movies. I've never heard of the other meanings, and even my Merriam Webster dictionary doesn't define the other meanings you gave, not even in a historical context. But I'm not surprised either, as all sorts of regionalisms exist that I've never heard of (especially when doing NYT crosswords).
The shadow of the earth on clouds at sunrise or sunset is noticeably curved also if you have an unobstructed view.
What happens when a screw falls out in orbit?
I believe it is called "a mission of opportunity".
$20K+ and there's no 4K content? Yeah, that makes lots of sense.
Didn't you learn anything from all of the myriad CSI variants? All you need to do is up-sample and details will magically appear, which you will then display on your extra pixels. I think the term formerly used by the ancients used to be called "spontaneous generation", but they applied that to insects and such.