Mind you, that helicopters are pretty damn inefficient flying machines. I've heard it said before that "helicopters don't fly through the air, they beat it into submission".
Usually, but for most devices under the 2m wavelength mark (>150MHz or so, which these would probably be), human body absorbption drops quickly. Of course, this is moot when compared to the EMI that most industrial electrical equipment generates. Hundreds of 3-phase motors, giant transformers, and multi-kilowatt circuits make for a far stronger field at the low end of the spectrum than an army of small sub-watt range transmitters.
I think IBM's caring about AIX has hit an all-time low. IBM never made any real money directly from selling a UNIX-style OS. Their bread and butter is still in selling large database solutions, and everything else is just part of the client infrastructure feeding off those databases. OS/2 and AIX were always mostly targeted towards being desktop or workgroup front-ends to databases, and to this day the main surviving instances of OS/2 are ATMs, which connect to (you guessed it) IBM databases.
Linux is just the next in the line of networked OSes that make good platforms for a DB/2 client.
Obviously you never read the short stories of the same name. I, Robot (the collection) was Asimov's exploration of the fallibility of cold, logical reasoning and the possible flaws with his idea of the three laws.
We used the red book for a graphics class in college. After browsing the book for a couple of evenings I was able to write a simple OpenGL app to draw, texturemap, light, and animate a heightfield made of triangle strips. In fact, I spent less time writing the OGL code than figuring out how to get GTK to throw up a drawing window.
Many modern (made within the last 5-10 years) barcode scanners are firmware-upgradeable. New standards for barcodes are always being released by one industry or another, and systems within manufacturing, shipping, and warehousing companies need to adapt to handling the new data formats quickly.
As for the older, fixed function models, well, barcode readers get a lot of abuse, and are usually replaced every so often anyway due to wear and tear. Even better, the older supermarket checkout units have HeNe gas-discharge lasers which have a much shorter service life than their solid-state counterparts.
Great, you can make exactly the same argument about the proliferation of small, cheap portable phones. The thing is, some people do now talk on the phone in public, but this hasn't changed the dynamics of family and socialization for the worse. In fact, it's helped keep people closer in touch by allowing people to leave the house / office and live life without being tethered to a desk for fear of missing a call.
The same is possible with the expansion of WiFi coverage. Imagine someone being able to go on vacation with their family on a whim, knowing that they won't have to sacrifice their work responsibilities in the process. I'm not saying you should bring your notebook or PDA to Disneyland or anything. Just that the ability to make travel time more productive can make leisure time more palatable to employers.
If anything, the last twenty years have brought not only higher density storage media, but larger consumer vehicles with which to transport them. Imagine the bandwidth of a Ford Excursion full of LTO2s... Too bad the cost/GB/mile is fairly high.
Albert Einstein wrote it while trying to explain where all the missing left socks go, but dismissed it as rubbish. Little did he know that eighty years later it would be resurrected by a young Finnish student hoping to impress the ladies with a reimplementation of Minix.
A common saying here is that, "Austin is the liberal oasis in the conservative desert that is Texas." Where else can a bearded hobo transvestite rank in the top 5 regularly in the mayoral elections?
...in electronic copy edition. This is the only magazine I pay for. I find enough reading material online to fill both my geek and non-geek news quotas.
As many here have commented, sometimes the guy in a room can do some amazing work, often in a shorter time than intended. However, customers and product schedules can't rely on the sometimes erratic nature of such prodigies. So I think this statement should be changed to "Don't bet on the guy in a room."
Slashdot Mirror
Surprisingly, it also looks like the Hall of Doom.
Sources say Richard Keil is on the waiting list for a new jaw, too.
The way I like it / is the way it is.
I got mine / and don't worry' bout his.
Props to Mr. Please-Please himself.
Mind you, that helicopters are pretty damn inefficient flying machines. I've heard it said before that "helicopters don't fly through the air, they beat it into submission".
Usually, but for most devices under the 2m wavelength mark (>150MHz or so, which these would probably be), human body absorbption drops quickly.
Of course, this is moot when compared to the EMI that most industrial electrical equipment generates. Hundreds of 3-phase motors, giant transformers, and multi-kilowatt circuits make for a far stronger field at the low end of the spectrum than an army of small sub-watt range transmitters.
I think IBM's caring about AIX has hit an all-time low. IBM never made any real money directly from selling a UNIX-style OS. Their bread and butter is still in selling large database solutions, and everything else is just part of the client infrastructure feeding off those databases. OS/2 and AIX were always mostly targeted towards being desktop or workgroup front-ends to databases, and to this day the main surviving instances of OS/2 are ATMs, which connect to (you guessed it) IBM databases.
Linux is just the next in the line of networked OSes that make good platforms for a DB/2 client.
Really? Considering the Opteron 850 maxes out at 89W while the Itanium 1.5 is 107W, by each vendor's own datasheets.
printf() debugging is sometimes the cause of the dreaded Schroedingbug.
"You don't have to be rude."
Obviously you never read the short stories of the same name. I, Robot (the collection) was Asimov's exploration of the fallibility of cold, logical reasoning and the possible flaws with his idea of the three laws.
We used the red book for a graphics class in college. After browsing the book for a couple of evenings I was able to write a simple OpenGL app to draw, texturemap, light, and animate a heightfield made of triangle strips. In fact, I spent less time writing the OGL code than figuring out how to get GTK to throw up a drawing window.
Yes, it's that good.
Why can't there be a filter for any summary with the prefix 'cyber'? It's usually a good sign that the poster is full of shit anyway.
"I invented the press to print bibles, dammit, not newspapers and schoolbooks!"
Many modern (made within the last 5-10 years) barcode scanners are firmware-upgradeable. New standards for barcodes are always being released by one industry or another, and systems within manufacturing, shipping, and warehousing companies need to adapt to handling the new data formats quickly.
As for the older, fixed function models, well, barcode readers get a lot of abuse, and are usually replaced every so often anyway due to wear and tear. Even better, the older supermarket checkout units have HeNe gas-discharge lasers which have a much shorter service life than their solid-state counterparts.
Great, you can make exactly the same argument about the proliferation of small, cheap portable phones. The thing is, some people do now talk on the phone in public, but this hasn't changed the dynamics of family and socialization for the worse. In fact, it's helped keep people closer in touch by allowing people to leave the house / office and live life without being tethered to a desk for fear of missing a call.
The same is possible with the expansion of WiFi coverage. Imagine someone being able to go on vacation with their family on a whim, knowing that they won't have to sacrifice their work responsibilities in the process. I'm not saying you should bring your notebook or PDA to Disneyland or anything. Just that the ability to make travel time more productive can make leisure time more palatable to employers.
Fifth: Everyone on /. with a suborbital space plane raise your hand. (you don't need to be orbiting anything to be in space!).
If anything, the last twenty years have brought not only higher density storage media, but larger consumer vehicles with which to transport them. Imagine the bandwidth of a Ford Excursion full of LTO2s... Too bad the cost/GB/mile is fairly high.
Albert Einstein wrote it while trying to explain where all the missing left socks go, but dismissed it as rubbish. Little did he know that eighty years later it would be resurrected by a young Finnish student hoping to impress the ladies with a reimplementation of Minix.
A common saying here is that, "Austin is the liberal oasis in the conservative desert that is Texas." Where else can a bearded hobo transvestite rank in the top 5 regularly in the mayoral elections?
In the effort to increase public comprehension of this concept, I offer up "space yo-yo".
ajlitt@droog:~$ dc -e "7 2.6 - p"
4.4
ajlitt@droog:~$
Their biggest leap yet was the staggering 4.4 version-number skip from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 7.
P.T. Barnum is often quoted as saying, "There's a sucker born every minute." eBay is prime evidence of this.
...in electronic copy edition. This is the only magazine I pay for. I find enough reading material online to fill both my geek and non-geek news quotas.
As many here have commented, sometimes the guy in a room can do some amazing work, often in a shorter time than intended. However, customers and product schedules can't rely on the sometimes erratic nature of such prodigies. So I think this statement should be changed to "Don't bet on the guy in a room."