Hmm, these remind me of the "data crystals" in the Babylon 5 series. Maybe those Hollywood Science Fiction FX people should read a little more into current technology when they try "designing" stuff a few hundred years into the future, just like all those nice analog control surfaces on the original Star Trek. Speaking of that, anyone else wondering that the new prequel series is gonna look more high tech then the original?:)
I work at a microelectronics company, in the computer lab, I have an old digital scope, a nice (and loud) switching power supply, and a protocol analyser sitting at my desk. The scope and analyser have some sort of HP-brand SUPER fan in them, they're much louder than PC fans, the room also has the laptop I work at, two pentiums, two sparcstation 10s, a Sun ULTRA 5, an ULTRA 10, a nice big UPS, 4 external SCSI Hard drives and an external tape drive, plus an UltraSCSI box with 4 hard drives in it, now THAT's loud, an engineer who used to work here once told me a story of being in the room during a power failure...
There was a big BANG from the industrial air conditioner, and then the slow sound of dozens of fans whirring down to nothing. And then he got this big-eyed amazed look and told me that you could actually hear footsteps in the room!
I also once brought my "surprisingly quiet" laptop to class once, only to discover it was actually quite loud, and it made noises I hadn't even been able to hear a foot away from it in this room.
-Koryon
lemon@ee.unb.ca
Also note: All the moniters are CAD sized, some of them are also very old (mid 80s Sun cad moniters), imagine all the radiation in the room...
Well, NBTel (soon to be some faceless branch of the alliant tree) sells vibe [http://www.nbtel.nb.ca/English/AtHome/Vibe/] for under $50/month, and that is a monopoloy (propietary technology that originally started for Video Conference calls). As far as I know that's the best thing there is that you can get residentially here. It can get 2 MB coming down the pipe and 600k going back up.
Databases would've been nice to learn when I was in high school, which was just 2 years ago. Of course, I'm not sure how our 286s and 386s running QBasic and QuickBasic would do.
That's a high school with ~3000 students, where the English department had nice shiney new machines and the Buisness department (which CS fell into) had i think 3 pentiums in ALL of their labs.
So to the teacher: Don't teach all this buisness stuff like airline seating programs and the such, teach things that get into the deeper parts of the language, like string pointers and memory allocation in C.
Can you say "Canada/New Brunswicks edumacation system needs help"?, I thought you could:)
It's too bad netcraft doesn't know the number of win 2000 boxes added in relation to the BSD boxes already there. It would be interesting to see the raw perfermance ratios of win 2000 versus BSD in such a heavily loaded system, and I certainly think hotmail would qualify.
As I understand law (and we had a music professor lecture us on it one day in music class), the fact that it's public domain means you can make a recording of it and charge people for it, without having to pay royalties to the (long dead) writer. But I really shouldn't go and distribute my copy of the Vienna orhestra playing Bach's Brandenberg(sp?) Concertos because they own that recording. Interestingly enough, according to the same proffesor, if you transcribed a song off the radio, you can legally do whatever you want with it, in other words you could record the song yourself and not pay royalties, of course he (and I) could be wrong on both accounts here.
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Hmm, these remind me of the "data crystals" in the Babylon 5 series. Maybe those Hollywood Science Fiction FX people should read a little more into current technology when they try "designing" stuff a few hundred years into the future, just like all those nice analog control surfaces on the original Star Trek. Speaking of that, anyone else wondering that the new prequel series is gonna look more high tech then the original? :)
I work at a microelectronics company, in the computer lab, I have an old digital scope, a nice (and loud) switching power supply, and a protocol analyser sitting at my desk. The scope and analyser have some sort of HP-brand SUPER fan in them, they're much louder than PC fans, the room also has the laptop I work at, two pentiums, two sparcstation 10s, a Sun ULTRA 5, an ULTRA 10, a nice big UPS, 4 external SCSI Hard drives and an external tape drive, plus an UltraSCSI box with 4 hard drives in it, now THAT's loud, an engineer who used to work here once told me a story of being in the room during a power failure...
There was a big BANG from the industrial air conditioner, and then the slow sound of dozens of fans whirring down to nothing. And then he got this big-eyed amazed look and told me that you could actually hear footsteps in the room!
I also once brought my "surprisingly quiet" laptop to class once, only to discover it was actually quite loud, and it made noises I hadn't even been able to hear a foot away from it in this room.
-Koryon
lemon@ee.unb.ca
Also note: All the moniters are CAD sized, some of them are also very old (mid 80s Sun cad moniters), imagine all the radiation in the room...
Waddya mean, was? They still are lining thier pockets, and breaking the diku liscence in the process, checkout this page, or any of these ones:
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http://medcritique.kastagaar.com/
http://home.jam.rr.com/slithytoves/kurt/Medievi
http://members.nbci.com/anti_med/
Well, NBTel (soon to be some faceless branch of the alliant tree) sells vibe [http://www.nbtel.nb.ca/English/AtHome/Vibe/] for under $50/month, and that is a monopoloy (propietary technology that originally started for Video Conference calls). As far as I know that's the best thing there is that you can get residentially here. It can get 2 MB coming down the pipe and 600k going back up.
Databases would've been nice to learn when I was in high school, which was just 2 years ago. Of course, I'm not sure how our 286s and 386s running QBasic and QuickBasic would do.
:)
That's a high school with ~3000 students, where the English department had nice shiney new machines and the Buisness department (which CS fell into) had i think 3 pentiums in ALL of their labs.
So to the teacher: Don't teach all this buisness stuff like airline seating programs and the such, teach things that get into the deeper parts of the language, like string pointers and memory allocation in C.
Can you say "Canada/New Brunswicks edumacation system needs help"?, I thought you could
It's too bad netcraft doesn't know the number of win 2000 boxes added in relation to the BSD boxes already there. It would be interesting to see the raw perfermance ratios of win 2000 versus BSD in such a heavily loaded system, and I certainly think hotmail would qualify.
As I understand law (and we had a music professor lecture us on it one day in music class), the fact
that it's public domain means you can make a recording of it and charge people for it, without having to pay royalties to the (long dead) writer. But I really shouldn't go and distribute my copy of the Vienna orhestra playing Bach's Brandenberg(sp?) Concertos because they own that recording. Interestingly enough, according to the same proffesor, if you transcribed a song off the radio, you can legally do whatever you want with it, in other words you could record the song yourself and not pay royalties, of course he (and I) could be wrong on both accounts here.