While the plant was hemorrhaging and was unstable, did anyone else see what the PR rep from the Utility that ran the plant said? (very roughly) "Why should we explain (or tell) anything to you", referring to the public or the media present; this got people very upset and is very telling of the attitudes; is it still the same?
Car and Driver said 105MPH top speed, which sounds right.
I was never to achieve over 100MPH when new, and as I said before, you could not stand the noise and how hard it was working at just above highway speeds.
My mistake, it did redline at a little higher than that (it WAS 20 years ago, duh), but the engine only did it complaining all the way. Somewhere in that time, the speed limits went up, and it had problems running that speed for any time at all. On the other hand, my MR2 would do 117MPH, for significant periods, without blinking.
It was seriously geared WRONG, and not enough HP for the highway, as many reviewers pointed out. I drove it on the highways - 60-65mph is the max you could run it for any length of time.
Wheel bearings failed at 12k from NO lubrication at factory; three times to shop and new rack/pinion, alignments before *I* discovered it by racking front wheels; two hour job at home; fixed.
4cyl (iron duke?) ran hot and engine had noticeable wear by 20k; heat broke oil down quickly; needed oil changes at 2kmi mark; lifter noise told when it was ready...
Rubber disintegrated off emergency brake cable; rusted and froze and locked wheel.
Transmission locked; needed teardown.
Car was touted for being "plastic" on the outside so no rust, but... had Accident; they "repaired" it; took months, and the "frame" holding panels was only lightweight painted stamped sheet metal; rusted out FAST, everywhere.
Original Goodyear Eagle GTs SUCKed; too wide, fat, became skis in winter and dangerous, and compound was too hard, greasy, poor for traction.
Highway speeds were taxing on engine; redlined at 68mph IIRC; the engine wore quickly making even that a raucous chore.
Sold at 24k; what a piece of crap, except I kinda liked the speakers in headrest; doh!
Replaced with MR2; the best car I have ever owned.
While decidely NOT electronic and relatively low tech, and from the 60's, they did make it through the late 70's, and have seen quite a resurgence today(check out ebay, alt.hobbies.slotcars, www.playingmantis.com, modelmotoring.com, scalextric, etc.)
They are STILL fun, can be highly competitive (there are MANY race groups formed around the US now); they are very tactile and aromatic(oh, the ozone and oil smell), unlike computing.
Others would do the hobby justice; I just wanted to make sure they were not overlooked.
In a similar way think the cdparanoia author(s) is very deserving, all before winamp, before MP3...
I remember when I downloaded and compiled cdparanoia on my Amiga; ripped the first tune from a Disney disc for my new daughter. 8 bit, stereo, CD drives were fairly new, didn't necessarily support CDDA, no CD-Rs, no MP3, files were huge to have only several songs, but I KNEW it was only a matter of time before it was practical; I remember thinking that is was a cool new thing to make my CD collection more useful, and I never thought of IP issues; they were mine and I paid for them. I blinked, and the MP3 story had taken off.
just a S.W.A.G., I think there is document retention schedules mandated by the telecommunications safeharbor rules, which I think made it possible for ISPs to NOT be liable for copyright infringement on their equipment; this however, means that they MUST maintain a certain level of documentation, etc.
Michigan counties specifically state they are not responsible for homeowners water quality *at all*. They provide lab services at a reasonable ($15, now $60 going up fast) expense.
I am convinced that local governments are forcing the adoption of public water (and sewer) sources. Their cut is getting paid to "manage" and build them. I define *force* as waiting until there is a serious contamination issue before reacting, but by then too late for the aquifer.
Public water systems simply stick a pipe into, say, lake michigan, sucking up old debris and all, and dump chlorine in. In Chicagoland, a 24" pipe was installed into the suburbs directly from lake michigan.
In my rural area, there a couple of farmers, but over 11k acres of wetland feeding the lakes and aquifers, but I still worry about contamination. I worry about the uninformed local governments even more.
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So, you hackers; do you remember when you would buy and build the -kit-, assemleb cost 20 dollars more(?); I don't remember aall details, just that you would get a box of parts from Sinclair, bare boards, components, and the familiar case/keyboard.
A buddy bought one and built it; I watched and played with it in roughly 1981, I thinks.
If you did it right, great. If not, bzzt.
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I still have them! The Atari (like Amiga) was really cool; fully documented OS (on ROM) was available and hackable.
The OS for the XLs had changed; some programs wouldn't work. So, I took the Atari "Translator disks"(The old OS loaded in ram over the new ROMS), dumped them onto EPROMS, and replaced the ROMS onboard. Voila; old OS in new system. And, while I was in their, I changed the function keys to do unique things(but I forget what now).
Also, I helped an entire user group to build 256k bank-switched memory expansions, soldering and all, onto their machines.
I had the Indus GT drives; very fast for Atari drives. The Apples were always ugly; remeber the Percom (?) drives and their clunky boxes? The Indus had status and track LEDS on front, with a hydraulic dampened smoked cover; very cool.
Yes, it shows that Eisner likely doesn't have kids at home allowed to watch TV (or any kids? He was not allowed much TV watching per his bio). I no longer let my kids 6-9 watch Disney shows at all; they are way too over-the-edge for our sensibilities, which I think demonstrates part of why Roy Disney resigned.
Always look for the one off-color thing they always place in in their product that spoils it all.
Several years ago login (PAM) support was seemingly unavailable under *nix. All the Biometric vendors did have a proprietary Windows implementation, but no *nix. The closest was a U. of Michigan project; it then trailed off. Sun, other *nix vendors either had no solution or were unwilling to make info available. It appeared that the US Gov. was such a huge potential customer, that giving info, code, etc. was not in their best interest.
The real point is that you will be forced to conform. Do you think it would be implanted and not forcibly utilized or enforced? No paycheck, no scholarships, no buying food, no registration with gov. means, no job. Pay compensation is now made with bank transfers; no cash or check allowed.
Once this idea gets started, it will be impossible to reverse. The need for cash has almost been eliminated already; they will say only CRIMINALS use cash. Yeah, to hide my meager wealth from the bloodsucking corps. and gov.
...the physical stress on dielectric becomes much greater (the square of the distance?) and more prone to breakdown and breakthrough; though, the research is all about eliminating these problems in a practical sense. As you get closer(thinner/lower-k), leakage increases, so a balance will be made once again between leakage, feature size and geometry, materials, thickness of oxide, and voltages.
Wow, I'm speaking Japanese! And, I have never heard Japanese before, so I'm not sure what I said.
Neurotensor, the NMR experiment is quite ameniable to laser. I have personally designed complex pulse sequences integrating laser-pulses for NMR research study.
From the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report:
"Two years after the conclusion of that study, NASA wrote to Pate'-Cornell and Fishback describing the importance of their work, and stated that it was developing a long-term effort to use probabilistic risk assessment and related disciplines to improve programmatic decisions. Though NASA has taken some measures to invest in probabilistic risk assesment as a tool, it is the Board's view that NASA has not fully exploited the insights that Pate'-Cornell's and Fishback's work offered".
From Richard Feynman's personal Notes:
"Finally, if we are to replace standard numerical probability usage with engineering judgment, why do we find such an enormous disparity between the management estimate and the judgment of the engineers? It would appear that, for whatever purpose, be it for internal or external consumption, the management of NASA exaggerates the reliability of its product, to the point of fantasy."
It doesn't sound like the engineers, among others, weren't quantifying the risks - read their reports.
I can understand your point as I have been unable to restart a service in the past. What I do is use the init scripts to restart a service the same or similar to what the system does; "S98SSHd restart". If you had a few hundred or thousands of users and simply needed to do a mail patch and thus needed to kill a few hundred parallel samba sessions, people would not be happy.
Hmm; you may be right but I look at it a little differently; the assumption made was that any leading edge disk with the largest, latest and greatest capacity (such as the 160 when introduced) would have as many platters/heads loaded as physically possible into the package to perform such an amazing feat. What would be the point in the disk-capacity wars of a manufacturer acheiving high areal density, then making their mega-capacity drive only half full of hardware when it possibly could be full? I agree that the consumer products you and I see later would be cost-reduced models and may appear with less platters/heads, but not on their flagship drives designed for maximum capacity, hubris, and oneupmanship. Dunno...
Wow, I am saddened; of course you are correct in general terms as a sysadmins lot in life means spending an *intimate* amount of time with a specific OS and don't see what the other systems can do. Some of us that have spent significant time reading, understanding, and programming the underlying OS concepts and architecture for a great many years across a great many OSs and systems (admining simply because we were GOOD at it; I started on B5000 architectures, the root firsts of many OS concepts we take for granted including virtual memory, stack-based OSs, compilers, etc.) but somehow get bundled with those who don't or didn't and don't understand what you have said. I have gotten the "Oh, you're a sysadmin... we can't allow you to do a different OS (or Programming, or design work, or whatever)" despite it was me who did the Oracle design and DBA work, did the performance analysis and benchmarks, bailed their developers out when I saw there solution was not scalable.
I urge you to seek out those who DO know the difference and give them an opportunity to assist; you will have a friend for corporate life(!) and an invaluable resource when the ball falls within their bailiwick.
When MS has every business possible converted and locked in to Office technologies will it say "Oh, now we have Office for Linux, go ahead and support the OS"; for the most part as an office machine, noone will care WHAT the underlying OS is. At that point, the OS geeks will rule and will have what they asked for; OS ownership.
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While the plant was hemorrhaging and was unstable, did anyone else see what the PR rep from the Utility that ran the plant said? (very roughly) "Why should we explain (or tell) anything to you", referring to the public or the media present; this got people very upset and is very telling of the attitudes; is it still the same?
There are many reasons for philanthropy than just a big heart, though I agree, they have often been maligned, as successful people often are.
See post in parent.
Car and Driver said 105MPH top speed, which sounds right.
I was never to achieve over 100MPH when new, and as I said before, you could not stand the noise and how hard it was working at just above highway speeds.
Hey, this guy estimates 75MPH top speed.
http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/264.html
This is in line with what I reported.
ESAD
My mistake, it did redline at a little higher than that (it WAS 20 years ago, duh), but the engine only did it complaining all the way. Somewhere in that time, the speed limits went up, and it had problems running that speed for any time at all. On the other hand, my MR2 would do 117MPH, for significant periods, without blinking.
It was seriously geared WRONG, and not enough HP for the highway, as many reviewers pointed out. I drove it on the highways - 60-65mph is the max you could run it for any length of time.
Wheel bearings failed at 12k from NO lubrication at factory; three times to shop and new rack/pinion, alignments before *I* discovered it by racking front wheels; two hour job at home; fixed.
4cyl (iron duke?) ran hot and engine had noticeable wear by 20k; heat broke oil down quickly; needed oil changes at 2kmi mark; lifter noise told when it was ready...
Rubber disintegrated off emergency brake cable; rusted and froze and locked wheel.
Transmission locked; needed teardown.
Car was touted for being "plastic" on the outside so no rust, but... had Accident; they "repaired" it; took months, and the "frame" holding panels was only lightweight painted stamped sheet metal; rusted out FAST, everywhere.
Original Goodyear Eagle GTs SUCKed; too wide, fat, became skis in winter and dangerous, and compound was too hard, greasy, poor for traction.
Highway speeds were taxing on engine; redlined at 68mph IIRC; the engine wore quickly making even that a raucous chore.
Sold at 24k; what a piece of crap, except I kinda liked the speakers in headrest; doh!
Replaced with MR2; the best car I have ever owned.
While decidely NOT electronic and relatively low tech, and from the 60's, they did make it through the late 70's, and have seen quite a resurgence today(check out ebay, alt.hobbies.slotcars, www.playingmantis.com, modelmotoring.com, scalextric, etc.)
They are STILL fun, can be highly competitive (there are MANY race groups formed around the US now); they are very tactile and aromatic(oh, the ozone and oil smell), unlike computing.
Others would do the hobby justice; I just wanted to make sure they were not overlooked.
In a similar way think the cdparanoia author(s) is very deserving, all before winamp, before MP3...
I remember when I downloaded and compiled cdparanoia on my Amiga; ripped the first tune from a Disney disc for my new daughter. 8 bit, stereo, CD drives were fairly new, didn't necessarily support CDDA, no CD-Rs, no MP3, files were huge to have only several songs, but I KNEW it was only a matter of time before it was practical; I remember thinking that is was a cool new thing to make my CD collection more useful, and I never thought of IP issues; they were mine and I paid for them. I blinked, and the MP3 story had taken off.
just a S.W.A.G., I think there is document retention schedules mandated by the telecommunications safeharbor rules, which I think made it possible for ISPs to NOT be liable for copyright infringement on their equipment; this however, means that they MUST maintain a certain level of documentation, etc.
Michigan counties specifically state they are not responsible for homeowners water quality *at all*.
They provide lab services at a reasonable ($15, now $60 going up fast) expense.
I am convinced that local governments are forcing the adoption of public water (and sewer) sources. Their cut is getting paid to "manage" and build them. I define *force* as waiting until there is a serious contamination issue before reacting, but by then too late for the aquifer.
Public water systems simply stick a pipe into, say, lake michigan, sucking up old debris and all, and dump chlorine in. In Chicagoland, a 24" pipe was installed into the suburbs directly from lake michigan.
In my rural area, there a couple of farmers, but over 11k acres of wetland feeding the lakes and aquifers, but I still worry about contamination. I worry about the uninformed local governments even more.
So, you hackers; do you remember when you would buy and build the -kit-, assemleb cost 20 dollars more(?); I don't remember aall details, just that you would get a box of parts from Sinclair, bare boards, components, and the familiar case/keyboard.
A buddy bought one and built it; I watched and played with it in roughly 1981, I thinks.
If you did it right, great. If not, bzzt.
I still have them! The Atari (like Amiga) was really cool; fully documented OS (on ROM) was available and hackable.
The OS for the XLs had changed; some programs wouldn't work. So, I took the Atari "Translator disks"(The old OS loaded in ram over the new ROMS), dumped them onto EPROMS, and replaced the ROMS onboard. Voila; old OS in new system. And, while I was in their, I changed the function keys to do unique things(but I forget what now).
Also, I helped an entire user group to build 256k bank-switched memory expansions, soldering and all, onto their machines.
I had the Indus GT drives; very fast for Atari drives. The Apples were always ugly; remeber the Percom (?) drives and their clunky boxes? The Indus had status and track LEDS on front, with a hydraulic dampened smoked cover; very cool.
Yes, it shows that Eisner likely doesn't have kids at home allowed to watch TV (or any kids? He was not allowed much TV watching per his bio). I no longer let my kids 6-9 watch Disney shows at all; they are way too over-the-edge for our sensibilities, which I think demonstrates part of why Roy Disney resigned.
Always look for the one off-color thing they always place in in their product that spoils it all.
Several years ago login (PAM) support was seemingly unavailable under *nix. All the Biometric vendors did have a proprietary Windows implementation, but no *nix. The closest was a U. of Michigan project; it then trailed off. Sun, other *nix vendors either had no solution or were unwilling to make info available. It appeared that the US Gov. was such a huge potential customer, that giving info, code, etc. was not in their best interest.
Strange; I never did figure it all out.
Is not to play.
The real point is that you will be forced to conform. Do you think it would be implanted and not forcibly utilized or enforced? No paycheck, no scholarships, no buying food, no registration with gov. means, no job. Pay compensation is now made with bank transfers; no cash or check allowed.
enuff said
Once this idea gets started, it will be impossible to reverse. The need for cash has almost been eliminated already; they will say only CRIMINALS use cash. Yeah, to hide my meager wealth from the bloodsucking corps. and gov.
...the physical stress on dielectric becomes much greater (the square of the distance?) and more prone to breakdown and breakthrough; though, the research is all about eliminating these problems in a practical sense. As you get closer(thinner/lower-k), leakage increases, so a balance will be made once again between leakage, feature size and geometry, materials, thickness of oxide, and voltages.
Wow, I'm speaking Japanese! And, I have never heard Japanese before, so I'm not sure what I said.
Neurotensor, the NMR experiment is quite ameniable to laser. I have personally designed complex pulse sequences integrating laser-pulses for NMR research study.
From the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report:
"Two years after the conclusion of that study, NASA wrote to Pate'-Cornell and Fishback describing the importance of their work, and stated that it was developing a long-term effort to use probabilistic risk assessment and related disciplines to improve programmatic decisions. Though NASA has taken some measures to invest in probabilistic risk assesment as a tool, it is the Board's view that NASA has not fully exploited the insights that Pate'-Cornell's and Fishback's work offered".
From Richard Feynman's personal Notes:
"Finally, if we are to replace standard numerical probability usage with engineering judgment, why do we find such an enormous disparity between the management estimate and the judgment of the engineers? It would appear that, for whatever purpose, be it for internal or external consumption, the management of NASA exaggerates the reliability of its product, to the point of fantasy."
It doesn't sound like the engineers, among others, weren't quantifying the risks - read their reports.
I can understand your point as I have been unable to restart a service in the past. What I do is use the init scripts to restart a service the same or similar to what the system does; "S98SSHd restart". If you had a few hundred or thousands of users and simply needed to do a mail patch and thus needed to kill a few hundred parallel samba sessions, people would not be happy.
Hmm; you may be right but I look at it a little differently; the assumption made was that any leading edge disk with the largest, latest and greatest capacity (such as the 160 when introduced) would have as many platters/heads loaded as physically possible into the package to perform such an amazing feat. What would be the point in the disk-capacity wars of a manufacturer acheiving high areal density, then making their mega-capacity drive only half full of hardware when it possibly could be full? I agree that the consumer products you and I see later would be cost-reduced models and may appear with less platters/heads, but not on their flagship drives designed for maximum capacity, hubris, and oneupmanship. Dunno...
Wow, I am saddened; of course you are correct in general terms as a sysadmins lot in life means spending an *intimate* amount of time with a specific OS and don't see what the other systems can do. Some of us that have spent significant time reading, understanding, and programming the underlying OS concepts and architecture for a great many years across a great many OSs and systems (admining simply because we were GOOD at it; I started on B5000 architectures, the root firsts of many OS concepts we take for granted including virtual memory, stack-based OSs, compilers, etc.) but somehow get bundled with those who don't or didn't and don't understand what you have said. I have gotten the "Oh, you're a sysadmin... we can't allow you to do a different OS (or Programming, or design work, or whatever)" despite it was me who did the Oracle design and DBA work, did the performance analysis and benchmarks, bailed their developers out when I saw there solution was not scalable.
I urge you to seek out those who DO know the difference and give them an opportunity to assist; you will have a friend for corporate life(!) and an invaluable resource when the ball falls within their bailiwick.
Sounds similar to "Mac OSX is now Unix-based".
When MS has every business possible converted and locked in to Office technologies will it say "Oh, now we have Office for Linux, go ahead and support the OS"; for the most part as an office machine, noone will care WHAT the underlying OS is. At that point, the OS geeks will rule and will have what they asked for; OS ownership.