Hmm, why would it be similar to the 160MB version?
My understanding is that, with the assumption that the 160 has as many platters and heads as the 300, that the *areal density* has increased almost twice *for the same rpms*, therefore, you could potentially get roughly twice the data transfer speed from it vs. the 160 on *sustained transfers*. In addition, since more data per track, less seeks/head switches are necessary to fulfill on smaller reads/writes; that is why a smaller buffer is probably OK for today's systems.
Yeah; me and my buddy were trying to do realtime galaxy simulations and fluid flow, but our basic interpreter ran out of variable names!
Please, get real. A C64, TRS-80, and a Sinclair? In BASIC? PASCAL? On an early PC? For graphics? No wonder you had problems. During that time(roughly 1982), there were Atari systems/doing/ GREAT graphics and 4 channel sound w/ 4096+ colors, coprocessor assisted, and the compilers (C, FORTH) were either there or nearly so (though GREAT Assembly and BASIC graphics on Atari systems, as well, were available from day one) while the PC were bloops and bleeps with 16 colors on a *slow*, especially graphics, PC type system. And, the Ataris were not *that* expensive, especially when the 600xl arrived. It sounds like you were making poor performance choices in languages and systems; you are not still making those mistakes, right?
Good memories; if you get the hankerin', there is a very good Amiga emulator available (Universal Amiga Emulator) UAE; and I mean good! I can run many/most(?) games, and all of the OS revs. There are some games I love to play still; it runs the FA-18 Interceptor flight sim flawlessly...
You advertise a job as a Perl CGI programmer? What exactly is that? What is the career path for that job in your organization? You get what you ask for.
You said it yourself; "as simple as a Perl CGI Programmer"
I looked at one or two of the subpoenas and the alleged infringements dated in Jun, Jul of 2003.
I asked my ISP how long they kept data for, and what was their retention policy. At first, they said none, but when I pushed they said three months, just in case.
Let your ISP know that your privacy is paramount, and NO logs should be generated! (but does this expose them because of safeharbor rules for ISPs?)
Before widespread Internet availability (and satellite), living out in the Weeds meant having to drive everywhere for information/books; (remember how expensive Wall St. Jr or Times?); television reception was/is a joke, your neighbors may be out of touch with the current acceptable fashion trends(read: clothing); you knew nothing about the newest song, movie, or career options or opportunity.
It means having access to the rest of our culture, especially at a pace and quantity that allows participation. It means that a song is known from one end of the planet from the other; remember when California had a distinctly different set of preferences than Wisconsin (or even the next town over?)?
I hated the limitations, but now live back in the Weeds, but at *my* choice and convenience all because of the technolgy(ies).
I BOW to you, Sir. I have never seen it put so lucid, succint, and clearly, a topic I have wrestled with for decades since the first time I tried magnetic induction for a wireless speaker project. It was never adequately described, and you did it completely without the calculus.
I wrote and queried my ISP about log retention schedules, what information they keep and log, and what kind of ISP "safeharbor" rules they have to follow.
I think is good to let your ISP know you are interested in such things (sadly, mine will now likely cancel my service after asking!)
The first response was "oh, we don't keep any logs or records". I thought that was too good to be true, so I asked again, pointedly, and was told by someone higher that they were actually kept for 3 months or so; they could match an IP with username.
Even bringing such a slug of metal *close* to the field would distort it to be virtually unusable, let alone detect an NMR signal. And, you would have to spin the vehicle at a few hz (or khz for magic angle) for many days to do it up right. I am not sure the occupants would be so happy...
Good book. if I may horribly corrupt his ideas, that people used to look to the future in that it would make their lives *better*, in a pragmatic way like better automobile tires, better ways to get around, etc.
I believe we are jaded and now pessimistically know that anything dramatic like free energy or a real space station or human adventure, for the sake of itself, simply won't happen, at least if we leave it to our existing institutionality. Our expectations have changed; do we really want a world where we fly around or live on mars? Great fantasy. Or is a car or bike or segway pretty good for our real lives here on earth (which isn't so bad for some, not good for others) where we can make it better for many more lives first?
I would guess that they will use this time to prepare users to new technologies, tools, and concepts, and further embed newer technologies into users machines with their "service packs" and "fixes" (as they have done before). This will help ease the fear and trepidation of something new, which is paramount in business. They know from experience that business users mostly choose to NOT be early adopters.
Maybe because though it is called an LED, I understand that the white ones are significantly different. Just because a low output red LED lasts for many years, does this history apply to the white ones(higher energy) as well?
Electroluminescent paint?; similar to the green "nightlights" you see in stores at $2.00 each or a Timex IndiGlow watch face. It requires a high(er) voltage to illuminate(as does a flourescent), but consumes an extremely small amount of electricity.
I have the night lights throughout my house and a watch and they work very well.
While GE may have killed it off, I believe it is often that marketeers run off to some new whiz-bang, higher profit (at the time) technology and "forget" it, only later to return when more profitiable or sexy.
Yep, in your home too. My late 1960's home w/100amp breaker/distribution box had warm connections when running heavy (cook stove) loads. A simple tighten down of connections; cool at full load.
Applications people wanted to run were on Windows; some applications they *had* to run was on OS/2.
I found OS/2 much simpler and reliable than Windows to implement, and deploy (once you weeded the bad memory and MBoards out), especially 2.x on.
Early on, Microsoft eliminated certain network DLLs from their OS/2 SMB network distributions which prevented browsing, etc. from an OS/2 machine. making it's viability worse, but hedging their bets in case it took off.
Hmmm, it seems those years were the inflection point for physical disk size; production disks circa 1983-4 were still 5-20MB in a cabinet the size of a small desk, and 20 times heavier. Within a year or two, they fell in size and new technology came online. I (we) had over 250 spindles of disk, some removable, that we were responsible for, including manually repairing the drives, and replacing and realigning all 20 heads by hand (no, really). They were simply larger versions of today's technology (barring magnetoresistive and size advantages), with none of the benefits of the smaller versions including much more moving mass, high power requirements, weaker magnet fields from "rare earth magnets", ran hot, etc. The actuators had magnets and shunts the size of an (american) football, and the seek time had to have been so much slower, though they would still move so fast as to be a complete blur. They would nicely remove your fingers if given a chance. In those days, I also had a chance to go to Memorex Canada's facility in Winnipeg and hands-on "work" on a line that built drives for a couple of days or so. Sidenote: Many did not like an Americans; some were rude because my president decided to test cruise missiles on northern candian Moose, or something like that; I was too young to care. I guess I don't blame them.
Roughly 1985, 1986 I was IMPRESSED with a 5 1/4" Maxtor 40MB drive; I had died and went to heaven.
Later, there was a medium sized ESDI disks; they worked, but they seemed to have the worst characteristics both(?) in that they failed for us often(maybe it was just the 80s and everything was junk), heat was always a problem, the controller(s) and cabling were large and could be problematic (could not/would not relocate bad or failing data for example; we had Exabyte cont. and Toshiba Falcon(?) drives); on to SCSI and to Fibre Channel from SASI/Shugart and cannot look back.
A technical solution (throwing out SMTP, etc.) won't change the problem as it is a "management" (or people) issue.
Laws and accountibility will ultimately fix this problem, if ever, but a technical solution will be worked around, as always.
SMTP should be augumented with certs, but that is only to enhance -its- trustworthiness, not filter or eliminate spam, which is something altogether different.
Hi; I oversimplified with my satement; I meant that if you display the max resolution of a DVD, the receiver systems will want to try to enhance, dither or otherwise, to a higher resolution. If it does not interpolate and stays at the DVD resolution, can you see or make out the "blocking" or mosaicing of the picture? This to me is artifacts, ala ghosting in an analog world; anything which creates distortion in the picture.
As a long-time employee in a pharma giant, near but not in the top level science, I know first hand the culture and their attitude; it is elitist and (was) very top-heavy with it's highly paid Wharton" business school managers who accounted for nothing but paperclips.
"we do nothing anything inexpensively; we are not a University" I was warned; the more expensive and shiny the better. I hated the culture and left it, the Republican-ish stewardship and snobbery; even the locals hate you if they know you are part of "that company".
As in other *required* areas of our life/lifestyle, the government(s) will be forced to take over or regulate this burden; society cannot afford to fund hyper-educated, top heavy, and expensive endeavors ala space shuttle, orphaned drugs, our highway system, etc.
But it does a lot more, I guess. Since after all the digital emulation of the analog signal, you then have to take that psuedo-analog signal and *once again* find, sychronize, and extract the encoded digital information (mpeg2) stream from that, and then do something with it.
Aren't the anamorphic DVDs usually only 720x480 max anyway? Not that it wouldn't look good anyhow, but is there any artifacting noticeable on larger widescreens; say 60" and above?
Do you all really think that that the IP people will let another round of DRM fail?
Do you think that any Digital signal will be breakable? At some very near point, it will NOT be easily breakable, unless of course you reverse engineer the ASICs, which is dificult at best
-or-
you have a few years and hundreds of Gcycles to factor numbers. Not likely.
The XBox was hacked (one way) because of a bus that was left exposed on the PC board; single chip solutions are on the way that eliminate such detective work.
Do you think that there will be an "analog hole" into any future digital system? When it goes digital, it behooves manufac. to kill off analog; at least high res analog.
There will be mistakes and very clever people, but with DMCA you will never hear of them as you have in the past.
Wow, I did not find it tacky at all. I found it very Victorian in many ways ala H.G. Wells or Verne maybe. I see in it that after technology and politics evolve over and over again for millenia that technology "function" follows "form". That is, technology's function is hidden and the form is demonstrated by the rich, large, Victorian style that I saw in Lynch's portrayal. For example, floating lamps, defying gravity with no visible support, that follow through the hall, illuminating every step. This shows an incredible control of power and technology, but it's means are invisible behind the style or design. Once humans gain control of a technology, we often cover it or dress it up to remove the technology and all that is left is art and beauty. Cars are that way, Windows, etc.
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Not to mention the milk-toast content laced with pop idols, brittany, WWF; a million channels but nothing to watch!
Hmm, why would it be similar to the 160MB version?
My understanding is that, with the assumption that the 160 has as many platters and heads as the 300, that the *areal density* has increased almost twice *for the same rpms*, therefore, you could potentially get roughly twice the data transfer speed from it vs. the 160 on *sustained transfers*. In addition, since more data per track, less seeks/head switches are necessary to fulfill on smaller reads/writes; that is why a smaller buffer is probably OK for today's systems.
Yeah; me and my buddy were trying to do realtime galaxy simulations and fluid flow, but our basic interpreter ran out of variable names!
/doing/ GREAT graphics and 4 channel sound w/ 4096+ colors, coprocessor assisted, and the compilers (C, FORTH) were either there or nearly so (though GREAT Assembly and BASIC graphics on Atari systems, as well, were available from day one) while the PC were bloops and bleeps with 16 colors on a *slow*, especially graphics, PC type system. And, the Ataris were not *that* expensive, especially when the 600xl arrived. It sounds like you were making poor performance choices in languages and systems; you are not still making those mistakes, right?
Please, get real. A C64, TRS-80, and a Sinclair? In BASIC? PASCAL? On an early PC? For graphics? No wonder you had problems. During that time(roughly 1982), there were Atari systems
Good memories; if you get the hankerin', there is a very good Amiga emulator available (Universal Amiga Emulator) UAE; and I mean good!
I can run many/most(?) games, and all of the OS revs. There are some games I love to play still; it runs the FA-18 Interceptor flight sim flawlessly...
You advertise a job as a Perl CGI programmer? What exactly is that? What is the career path for that job in your organization? You get what you ask for.
You said it yourself; "as simple as a Perl CGI Programmer"
I looked at one or two of the subpoenas and the alleged infringements dated in Jun, Jul of 2003.
I asked my ISP how long they kept data for, and what was their retention policy. At first, they said none, but when I pushed they said three months, just in case.
Let your ISP know that your privacy is paramount, and NO logs should be generated! (but does this expose them because of safeharbor rules for ISPs?)
and report a *roll-over*, kinda like On-Star for Homer Simpson, and then your insurance company to tell them how little time you spend on your health.
Before widespread Internet availability (and satellite), living out in the Weeds meant having to drive everywhere for information/books; (remember how expensive Wall St. Jr or Times?); television reception was/is a joke, your neighbors may be out of touch with the current acceptable fashion trends(read: clothing); you knew nothing about the newest song, movie, or career options or opportunity.
It means having access to the rest of our culture, especially at a pace and quantity that allows participation. It means that a song is known from one end of the planet from the other; remember when California had a distinctly different set of preferences than Wisconsin (or even the next town over?)?
I hated the limitations, but now live back in the Weeds, but at *my* choice and convenience all because of the technolgy(ies).
I BOW to you, Sir. I have never seen it put so lucid, succint, and clearly, a topic I have wrestled with for decades since the first time I tried magnetic induction for a wireless speaker project. It was never adequately described, and you did it completely without the calculus.
I wrote and queried my ISP about log retention schedules, what information they keep and log, and what kind of ISP "safeharbor" rules they have to follow.
I think is good to let your ISP know you are interested in such things (sadly, mine will now likely cancel my service after asking!)
The first response was "oh, we don't keep any logs or records". I thought that was too good to be true, so I asked again, pointedly, and was told by someone higher that they were actually kept for 3 months or so; they could match an IP with username.
I told them that that ZERO was best for me.
Even bringing such a slug of metal *close* to the field would distort it to be virtually unusable, let alone detect an NMR signal. And, you would have to spin the vehicle at a few hz (or khz for magic angle) for many days to do it up right. I am not sure the occupants would be so happy...
Good book. if I may horribly corrupt his ideas, that people used to look to the future in that it would make their lives *better*, in a pragmatic way like better automobile tires, better ways to get around, etc.
I believe we are jaded and now pessimistically know that anything dramatic like free energy or a real space station or human adventure, for the sake of itself, simply won't happen, at least if we leave it to our existing institutionality. Our expectations have changed; do we really want a world where we fly around or live on mars? Great fantasy. Or is a car or bike or segway pretty good for our real lives here on earth (which isn't so bad for some, not good for others) where we can make it better for many more lives first?
I would guess that they will use this time to prepare users to new technologies, tools, and concepts, and further embed newer technologies into users machines with their "service packs" and "fixes" (as they have done before). This will help ease the fear and trepidation of something new, which is paramount in business. They know from experience that business users mostly choose to NOT be early adopters.
Maybe because though it is called an LED, I understand that the white ones are significantly different. Just because a low output red LED lasts for many years, does this history apply to the white ones(higher energy) as well?
Electroluminescent paint?; similar to the green "nightlights" you see in stores at $2.00 each or a Timex IndiGlow watch face. It requires a high(er) voltage to illuminate(as does a flourescent), but consumes an extremely small amount of electricity.
I have the night lights throughout my house and a watch and they work very well.
While GE may have killed it off, I believe it is often that marketeers run off to some new whiz-bang, higher profit (at the time) technology and "forget" it, only later to return when more profitiable or sexy.
Yep, in your home too. My late 1960's home w/100amp breaker/distribution box had warm connections when running heavy (cook stove) loads. A simple tighten down of connections; cool at full load.
Applications people wanted to run were on Windows; some applications they *had* to run was on OS/2.
I found OS/2 much simpler and reliable than Windows to implement, and deploy (once you weeded the bad memory and MBoards out), especially 2.x on.
Early on, Microsoft eliminated certain network DLLs from their OS/2 SMB network distributions which prevented browsing, etc. from an OS/2 machine. making it's viability worse, but hedging their bets in case it took off.
Hmmm,
it seems those years were the inflection point for physical disk size; production disks circa 1983-4 were still 5-20MB in a cabinet the size of a small desk, and 20 times heavier. Within a year or two, they fell in size and new technology came online. I (we) had over 250 spindles of disk, some removable, that we were responsible for, including manually repairing the drives, and replacing and realigning all 20 heads by hand (no, really). They were simply larger versions of today's technology (barring magnetoresistive and size advantages), with none of the benefits of the smaller versions including much more moving mass, high power requirements, weaker magnet fields from "rare earth magnets", ran hot, etc. The actuators had magnets and shunts the size of an (american) football, and the seek time had to have been so much slower, though they would still move so fast as to be a complete blur. They would nicely remove your fingers if given a chance. In those days, I also had a chance to go to Memorex Canada's facility in Winnipeg and hands-on "work" on a line that built drives for a couple of days or so. Sidenote: Many did not like an Americans; some were rude because my president decided to test cruise missiles on northern candian Moose, or something like that; I was too young to care. I guess I don't blame them.
Roughly 1985, 1986 I was IMPRESSED with a 5 1/4" Maxtor 40MB drive; I had died and went to heaven.
Later, there was a medium sized ESDI disks; they worked, but they seemed to have the worst characteristics both(?) in that they failed for us often(maybe it was just the 80s and everything was junk), heat was always a problem, the controller(s) and cabling were large and could be problematic (could not/would not relocate bad or failing data for example; we had Exabyte cont. and Toshiba Falcon(?) drives); on to SCSI and to Fibre Channel from SASI/Shugart and cannot look back.
Great memories.
On the money...
A technical solution (throwing out SMTP, etc.) won't change the problem as it is a "management" (or people) issue.
Laws and accountibility will ultimately fix this problem, if ever, but a technical solution will be worked around, as always.
SMTP should be augumented with certs, but that is only to enhance -its- trustworthiness, not filter or eliminate spam, which is something altogether different.
Hi; I oversimplified with my satement; I meant that if you display the max resolution of a DVD, the receiver systems will want to try to enhance, dither or otherwise, to a higher resolution. If it does not interpolate and stays at the DVD resolution, can you see or make out the "blocking" or mosaicing of the picture? This to me is artifacts, ala ghosting in an analog world; anything which creates distortion in the picture.
As a long-time employee in a pharma giant, near but not in the top level science, I know first hand the culture and their attitude; it is elitist and (was) very top-heavy with it's highly paid Wharton" business school managers who accounted for nothing but paperclips.
"we do nothing anything inexpensively; we are not a University" I was warned; the more expensive and shiny the better. I hated the culture and left it, the Republican-ish stewardship and snobbery; even the locals hate you if they know you are part of "that company".
As in other *required* areas of our life/lifestyle, the government(s) will be forced to take over or regulate this burden; society cannot afford to fund hyper-educated, top heavy, and expensive endeavors ala space shuttle, orphaned drugs, our highway system, etc.
But it does a lot more, I guess. Since after all the digital emulation of the analog signal, you then have to take that psuedo-analog signal and *once again* find, sychronize, and extract the encoded digital information (mpeg2) stream from that, and then do something with it.
Aren't the anamorphic DVDs usually only 720x480 max anyway? Not that it wouldn't look good anyhow, but is there any artifacting noticeable on larger widescreens; say 60" and above?
Do you all really think that that the IP people will let another round of DRM fail?
Do you think that any Digital signal will be breakable? At some very near point, it will NOT be easily breakable, unless of course you reverse engineer the ASICs, which is dificult at best
-or-
you have a few years and hundreds of Gcycles to factor numbers. Not likely.
The XBox was hacked (one way) because of a bus that was left exposed on the PC board; single chip solutions are on the way that eliminate such detective work.
Do you think that there will be an "analog hole" into any future digital system? When it goes digital, it behooves manufac. to kill off analog; at least high res analog.
There will be mistakes and very clever people, but with DMCA you will never hear of them as you have in the past.
Wow, I did not find it tacky at all. I found it very Victorian in many ways ala H.G. Wells or Verne maybe. I see in it that after technology and politics evolve over and over again for millenia that technology "function" follows "form". That is, technology's function is hidden and the form is demonstrated by the rich, large, Victorian style that I saw in Lynch's portrayal. For example, floating lamps, defying gravity with no visible support, that follow through the hall, illuminating every step. This shows an incredible control of power and technology, but it's means are invisible behind the style or design. Once humans gain control of a technology, we often cover it or dress it up to remove the technology and all that is left is art and beauty. Cars are that way, Windows, etc.