Yes, in exactly the same way that winning a race is "gaming the system". I mean, only an out-and-out cheat would do something like observe what the conditions for winning are, and try to improve their own performance to match those conditions.
Citroen had a brief fling with rotaries too, but very few of the cars survive. They were effectively prototypes and were recalled and destroyed at the end of the testing - shades of the GM EV1...
The GZ Birotor was basically a GS with a two-rotor Wankel producing about 100bhp, and driving the front wheels through a semi-automatic gearbox. They were pretty quick, and had that distinctive two-strokey Wankel rasp;-)
There was supposed to be a version of the CX powered by either the NSU Ro80 engine, or a three-rotor variant producing over 200bhp. Neither were made, even as one-off prototypes.
My van (Mercedes Vito) generally pops its "Book a service" message up once it's pretty close to the end of its 24000-mile service interval. The actual figure from Mercedes is 18000 to 24000 depending on how the vehicle is used; mine is mostly driven fully laden on a mixture of rough hill tracks, twisty country roads, and motorway.
(legally required of all UK citizens with a TV set)
Uh, no. You do *not* need a TV licence in the UK to own a television. You need it to watch off-air programming. Why you'd bother with that when things like bittorrent and really fast broadband exist, I don't know.
If you zero out a drive, no-one can ever recover the data. It's gone, forever. No trace of it is left.
No, the NSA doesn't have some big magic machine that can miraculously recover the data from the edges of the tracks, or whatever. It's gone.
Any hard disk drive made in the past 15 years no longer uses MFM, but something more like QAM to record data on the disk. Thus, the bits are stored as many different levels and phases. The idea of being able to guess what a bit was by the remaining magnetic field works for stuff that we used in the 1980s, nothing newer.
The last time this subject came up, someone calculated that fuel from all the waste biomass in the country would still be a tiny fraction of oil consumption.
Yup. But gasification doesn't have to scale up to power *every* car, it just has to power *my* car. If you make a gasifier, it has to scale to power yours, too.
Oh, you can't weld? Well, tell you what, how about I give you a lift in my wood gas-powered car to the stables, and I'll teach you how to ride a horse instead?
UK number plates have the area the car was registered in, a serial number, and the year of registration.
So, AOL 183T means it was registered in Oxfordshire some time in late 1978 - "OL" was Oxfordshire, "A" and "183" is fairly early in the sequence, and "T" means August 1978 to July 1979.
Dual-Core 1.6 to 2ghz, 4gb of ECC DDR3 1033mhz RAM... and only about 4 watts for a system (at the 1.6ghz speed).
That's going to be slower than an equivalent x86-based machine, though.
The thing is, it will be slower *but draw one tenth the power consumption*. I want ten of these on a board, with about eight times the processing power for the same power draw as an x86 solution.
Sorry, to reply to my own post, I hit submit instead of preview.
They've both been around about as long as bash. They all originate in the late 80s/early 90s. According to wikipedia (I don't remember this far back) csh dates from the late 70s.
Perl and Python have both been around since the late 80s, with Perl being a year or two older. In terms of Linux, they have indeed both been around since the dawn of time.
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Making your site better for users, by following the guidelines provided by the search engine providers, perhaps?
I mean, what would a search engine company like Google know about making information easy to find and sites easy to navigate?
Yes, in exactly the same way that winning a race is "gaming the system". I mean, only an out-and-out cheat would do something like observe what the conditions for winning are, and try to improve their own performance to match those conditions.
I can't see it being Israel, since Adi Shamir is actually Israeli himself.
Citroen had a brief fling with rotaries too, but very few of the cars survive. They were effectively prototypes and were recalled and destroyed at the end of the testing - shades of the GM EV1...
The GZ Birotor was basically a GS with a two-rotor Wankel producing about 100bhp, and driving the front wheels through a semi-automatic gearbox. They were pretty quick, and had that distinctive two-strokey Wankel rasp ;-)
There was supposed to be a version of the CX powered by either the NSU Ro80 engine, or a three-rotor variant producing over 200bhp. Neither were made, even as one-off prototypes.
My van (Mercedes Vito) generally pops its "Book a service" message up once it's pretty close to the end of its 24000-mile service interval. The actual figure from Mercedes is 18000 to 24000 depending on how the vehicle is used; mine is mostly driven fully laden on a mixture of rough hill tracks, twisty country roads, and motorway.
The mall cop could ask you to leave, and have you arrested for trespassing if you don't,
There's no trespass law in Scotland.
I don't have one, and haven't ever had one. Never needed one, either, since I don't have an aerial or cable.
I'd be more concerned that your hosting is now showing a page of ads and a drive-by malware link ;-)
Well done, timothy! You've linked to a malware-serving ad farm, right on the front page of /. where it will get thousands of hits.
Bahdum-tssch! :-D
(legally required of all UK citizens with a TV set)
Uh, no. You do *not* need a TV licence in the UK to own a television. You need it to watch off-air programming. Why you'd bother with that when things like bittorrent and really fast broadband exist, I don't know.
... that a good unexplained fire and a stabbing wouldn't fix.
And now it's not /.ed I see it was, in fact, 32x32. That'll teach me.
Old versions of Mac OS (back when it was called "System " had a little 16x16x1 icon of Steve Jobs. The story on folklore.org is here.
I hope they leave in in, or put it back in the ROMs, from now on. Come on, guys, 32 bytes.
If you zero out a drive, no-one can ever recover the data. It's gone, forever. No trace of it is left.
No, the NSA doesn't have some big magic machine that can miraculously recover the data from the edges of the tracks, or whatever. It's gone.
Any hard disk drive made in the past 15 years no longer uses MFM, but something more like QAM to record data on the disk. Thus, the bits are stored as many different levels and phases. The idea of being able to guess what a bit was by the remaining magnetic field works for stuff that we used in the 1980s, nothing newer.
Or, into the e-waste recycling bin at your recycling centre, where they will most likely end up in landfill anyway.
Nobody cares about your data. You are not interesting.
The last time this subject came up, someone calculated that fuel from all the waste biomass in the country would still be a tiny fraction of oil consumption.
Yup. But gasification doesn't have to scale up to power *every* car, it just has to power *my* car. If you make a gasifier, it has to scale to power yours, too.
Oh, you can't weld? Well, tell you what, how about I give you a lift in my wood gas-powered car to the stables, and I'll teach you how to ride a horse instead?
What's with the AOL etc. license plate?
UK number plates have the area the car was registered in, a serial number, and the year of registration.
So, AOL 183T means it was registered in Oxfordshire some time in late 1978 - "OL" was Oxfordshire, "A" and "183" is fairly early in the sequence, and "T" means August 1978 to July 1979.
A motoring atlas costs a fiver.
Dual-Core 1.6 to 2ghz, 4gb of ECC DDR3 1033mhz RAM... and only about 4 watts for a system (at the 1.6ghz speed).
That's going to be slower than an equivalent x86-based machine, though.
The thing is, it will be slower *but draw one tenth the power consumption*. I want ten of these on a board, with about eight times the processing power for the same power draw as an x86 solution.
Sorry, to reply to my own post, I hit submit instead of preview.
They've both been around about as long as bash. They all originate in the late 80s/early 90s. According to wikipedia (I don't remember this far back) csh dates from the late 70s.
Perl and Python have both been around since the late 80s, with Perl being a year or two older. In terms of Linux, they have indeed both been around since the dawn of time.
Doesn't sound familiar. The guy I'm thinking of was a massive Bob Dylan fan and coffee afficionado, long before it was cool</hipster>
This was up in the north-west, in the late 80s/early 90s. How many massively nationalistic Scottish classics teachers can there be?
As a matter of interest, what was his name? I think Imight know him...
From TFA:
UARS could land anywhere between 57 degrees north and 57 degrees south of the equator - most of the populated world.
Cool, I'll just drive a mile or two north, then.