I could see this being especially useful for counter-sniper sweeps. If you can see through buildings, you can do a helicopter sweep of the area and verify that no snipers are waiting to kill a VIP on the move.
You're right. I'd forgotten about Microsoft's "I'm going to take my toys and go home" reaction to Safari. Not that I'm complaining. Safari is way better than IE.
Another clever way of combatting heat is to be able to change speed on the fly, so that you match the current processing load. If you are editing code the processor can run slow and then when you compile it cranks up to full speed. This way you don't have a performance penalty but you aren't generating lots of heat the entire time.
Most processors go into "halt" mode when they're not processing anything. This automatically keeps heat and energy usage down without reclocking the chip. The chip only wakes up when it receives a interrupt that needs its attention. (e.g. Time for the next time slice.)
No, they specifically said that the constitution was too vague to easily define how long is too long. Thus the decision of the Supreme Court was that they could not impose limitations unless the copyright period could be provably demonstrated to be "unreasonably long".
They said it didn't violate the *letter* of the constitution. The Founding Fathers apparently expected future generations to be a bit smarter and left them some leeway. Instead it has been abused by slowly striping away the US's ability to advance literature and science.
The Sonny Bono extension act served only to bring US protection terms in line with those of Europe.
Violating constitutional intent to "bring the US in line with Europe" is not OK. In case no one was paying attention, the US explicity requested freedom from Europe so that we may have a much more free country than anywhere else. Allowing the EU to dictate what our laws should say (and vica-versa) would have the founding fathers rolling over in their graves.
And you know that they actually have nukes... how again?
Korea is doing a lot of hand waving to get attention. To date, no one has actually seen evidence that they have them. Even if they do have them, diplomatic venues will be pursued first. If it turns out they're not a threat, we keep an eye on them. OTOH, if they really want to blow the shit out of us, you can be sure we'll come and take their shiny new toys away.
Actually, the MPAA seems to be doing quite fine with charging people exhorbant fees for DVDs. Amazingly enough, people keep paying them. Overall, I'd say the MPAA hasn't been doing *too* bad up until now. The biggest thing they've done to piss everyone off was the DeCSS fiasco.
Are you suggesting this is the reason we need to ban exporting P4 class CPUs?
Of course not. Read my original post (grandparent of the one you responded to) THEN comment. I did say that enemies can get all the computing power they want, so we should focus on stopping U235 and Pu239, both of which are fairly easy to control.
You might find this to be an appropriate web comic. Although when you think about it, it's all about whether a device is "designer" or not. Laptops can do everything a PDA, MP3, etc. can do. So why have smaller devices? Because sometimes they meet a real need. In the case of the iPod, it was a good mix of a sound player with high capacity storage. It hit the very edge of that "sweet spot" in which pocket devices are allowed to live. I think Microsoft's problem here is that these devices go beyond that "sweet spot" and start competing directly with Laptop type devices.
...it starts with an 'i' and is about the size of a 'note'book. Highly portable, 4 hour battery life, runs OS X, and can even interface with the Internet and an iPod! Screw Microsoft. What more could you want out of a PMC?
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Every industry eventually hits this dilemma and every industry deals with it in their own way. Just a few years ago (actually prior to Y2K), some of the companies in the business of Livestock Genetics were worried they'd run out of Bull numbers. (I think the standard was something like AC0023 where the first two digits identified the company and the last four were the bull's number.)
The various companies formed an IT standards committee and came to an agreement on extending the numbers. It took a year or two, but the systems got converted and life went on. It really wasn't that big of a deal. As a bonus, a real standard for data processing showed up. The previous number scheme was designed for paper and allowed for certain variations which gave computer systems a fit. e.g. Sometimes the number might be written as AC23 or simply 23. This made it difficult for a computer to decide if the code was the domestic code or the international code.
It's more of a space issue type of thing. If I have X amount of space on these disks, and I realize that the new tables I want to create will be too large to fit in that X space, I can add Y disks and create my tables there.
Sorry to spoil your (not funny) joke, but Radium doesn't fission. You need Uranium-235 or Plutonium-239. Thorium is apparently useful in reactors, but I've never heard of it being usable for a bomb.
I can't believe that someone actually takes this crap seriously. A penetrator missile? Fired from the underside of the plane? Have you notified CNN? I'm sure they'd love to run it through some expensive image processing software. What? They're in on it to? What about the newspapers, CSPAN, maybe even BBC? THEY'RE ALL IN ON IT?!
And suppose they HAVE reported it stolen to the UN. You're back to square one
No, you're not. The moment materials are reported missing from a nuclear plant, it gets investigated. Especially when we're talking about a third world country. Thankfully, concentrated radioisotopes tend to give away their position pretty well. It wouldn't take the US very long to find it.
So I repeat, either the materials get reported to the UN, or someone's country ends up as a glass parking lot. It's that simple.
But, God help us all if Al Queda, or the like, ever gets hold of a working nuke and smuggles it into the U.S. We might not use a nuke in retalliation; but, I'm afraid the immediate response would be military and extremely agressive.
Given Al Queda's cave hiding tactics, I think that "bunker-buster" nukes would be an absolute minimum retaliation. i.e. We'd made sure that there was nowhere left for the enemy to hide. Including caves.
The difficulty is that the US is unlikely to be a first target for a nuke. Were Al Queda, Iran, Pakistan, etc. to get nukes, their first target would be Israel. Now the US is generally seen as a country that can take care of itself. But an ABomb attack on Israel might cause the rest of the world to simply remove the middle east from existence. We might not outright destroy them, but we would certainly make sure that there was no definable borders left in that area.
"Oh yeah, it came from here alright, but that stuff was stolen a couple of years ago. We're just a poor country with lax security."
That excuse wouldn't cut the mustard. Either they reported the stolen materials to the UN as soon as they went missing, or they're aiding and abetting terrorists. It's that simple.
Does this mean that PostGreSQL will actually be able to write *directly* to disk cluster? That would be one serious performance boost! My only request is that they do us all a favor and make sure that we can fragment the tables across spaces. It tends to suck when one table fills an entire drive, and it refuses to use all the space on the other drives.
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I could see this being especially useful for counter-sniper sweeps. If you can see through buildings, you can do a helicopter sweep of the area and verify that no snipers are waiting to kill a VIP on the move.
IE has been discontinued on MacOS, too.
You're right. I'd forgotten about Microsoft's "I'm going to take my toys and go home" reaction to Safari. Not that I'm complaining. Safari is way better than IE.
I'm kind of offended. They assume I'm using Windows.
How's that? IE is also available for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Solaris, and HP-UX (actually the later two have been discontinued).
Another clever way of combatting heat is to be able to change speed on the fly, so that you match the current processing load. If you are editing code the processor can run slow and then when you compile it cranks up to full speed. This way you don't have a performance penalty but you aren't generating lots of heat the entire time.
Most processors go into "halt" mode when they're not processing anything. This automatically keeps heat and energy usage down without reclocking the chip. The chip only wakes up when it receives a interrupt that needs its attention. (e.g. Time for the next time slice.)
No, they specifically said that the constitution was too vague to easily define how long is too long. Thus the decision of the Supreme Court was that they could not impose limitations unless the copyright period could be provably demonstrated to be "unreasonably long".
They said it didn't violate the *letter* of the constitution. The Founding Fathers apparently expected future generations to be a bit smarter and left them some leeway. Instead it has been abused by slowly striping away the US's ability to advance literature and science.
Ouch. I must be getting tired or something. This is the second time today I've been modded down as a Troll.
The Sonny Bono extension act served only to bring US protection terms in line with those of Europe.
Violating constitutional intent to "bring the US in line with Europe" is not OK. In case no one was paying attention, the US explicity requested freedom from Europe so that we may have a much more free country than anywhere else. Allowing the EU to dictate what our laws should say (and vica-versa) would have the founding fathers rolling over in their graves.
Huh? I remember Bill and Ted, but I don't have a clue what you're talking about. IIRC, the guy they knew from the future was named "Rufus".
And you know that they actually have nukes... how again?
Korea is doing a lot of hand waving to get attention. To date, no one has actually seen evidence that they have them. Even if they do have them, diplomatic venues will be pursued first. If it turns out they're not a threat, we keep an eye on them. OTOH, if they really want to blow the shit out of us, you can be sure we'll come and take their shiny new toys away.
Actually, the MPAA seems to be doing quite fine with charging people exhorbant fees for DVDs. Amazingly enough, people keep paying them. Overall, I'd say the MPAA hasn't been doing *too* bad up until now. The biggest thing they've done to piss everyone off was the DeCSS fiasco.
He has previously been a lobbyist for the Walt Disney Corporation
Is this the a**hole who convinced Bono to give us the Mickey Mouse Protection Act? If he is, I say we tar and feather him, then burn him at the stake.
Are you suggesting this is the reason we need to ban exporting P4 class CPUs?
Of course not. Read my original post (grandparent of the one you responded to) THEN comment. I did say that enemies can get all the computing power they want, so we should focus on stopping U235 and Pu239, both of which are fairly easy to control.
You might find this to be an appropriate web comic. Although when you think about it, it's all about whether a device is "designer" or not. Laptops can do everything a PDA, MP3, etc. can do. So why have smaller devices? Because sometimes they meet a real need. In the case of the iPod, it was a good mix of a sound player with high capacity storage. It hit the very edge of that "sweet spot" in which pocket devices are allowed to live. I think Microsoft's problem here is that these devices go beyond that "sweet spot" and start competing directly with Laptop type devices.
Geez, I wasn't trolling. My point is that a laptop makes an effective Portable Media Center. No need for a specialized device.
...it starts with an 'i' and is about the size of a 'note'book. Highly portable, 4 hour battery life, runs OS X, and can even interface with the Internet and an iPod! Screw Microsoft. What more could you want out of a PMC?
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Every industry eventually hits this dilemma and every industry deals with it in their own way. Just a few years ago (actually prior to Y2K), some of the companies in the business of Livestock Genetics were worried they'd run out of Bull numbers. (I think the standard was something like AC0023 where the first two digits identified the company and the last four were the bull's number.)
The various companies formed an IT standards committee and came to an agreement on extending the numbers. It took a year or two, but the systems got converted and life went on. It really wasn't that big of a deal. As a bonus, a real standard for data processing showed up. The previous number scheme was designed for paper and allowed for certain variations which gave computer systems a fit. e.g. Sometimes the number might be written as AC23 or simply 23. This made it difficult for a computer to decide if the code was the domestic code or the international code.
It's more of a space issue type of thing. If I have X amount of space on these disks, and I realize that the new tables I want to create will be too large to fit in that X space, I can add Y disks and create my tables there.
Sorry to spoil your (not funny) joke, but Radium doesn't fission. You need Uranium-235 or Plutonium-239. Thorium is apparently useful in reactors, but I've never heard of it being usable for a bomb.
Here I was hoping that we could replace Oracle. Ah well, good news none the less. Thanks for the info. :-)
I can't believe that someone actually takes this crap seriously. A penetrator missile? Fired from the underside of the plane? Have you notified CNN? I'm sure they'd love to run it through some expensive image processing software. What? They're in on it to? What about the newspapers, CSPAN, maybe even BBC? THEY'RE ALL IN ON IT?!
I'm not paranoid. Everyone *is* out to get me.
And suppose they HAVE reported it stolen to the UN. You're back to square one
No, you're not. The moment materials are reported missing from a nuclear plant, it gets investigated. Especially when we're talking about a third world country. Thankfully, concentrated radioisotopes tend to give away their position pretty well. It wouldn't take the US very long to find it.
So I repeat, either the materials get reported to the UN, or someone's country ends up as a glass parking lot. It's that simple.
But, God help us all if Al Queda, or the like, ever gets hold of a working nuke and smuggles it into the U.S. We might not use a nuke in retalliation; but, I'm afraid the immediate response would be military and extremely agressive.
Given Al Queda's cave hiding tactics, I think that "bunker-buster" nukes would be an absolute minimum retaliation. i.e. We'd made sure that there was nowhere left for the enemy to hide. Including caves.
The difficulty is that the US is unlikely to be a first target for a nuke. Were Al Queda, Iran, Pakistan, etc. to get nukes, their first target would be Israel. Now the US is generally seen as a country that can take care of itself. But an ABomb attack on Israel might cause the rest of the world to simply remove the middle east from existence. We might not outright destroy them, but we would certainly make sure that there was no definable borders left in that area.
"Oh yeah, it came from here alright, but that stuff was stolen a couple of years ago. We're just a poor country with lax security."
That excuse wouldn't cut the mustard. Either they reported the stolen materials to the UN as soon as they went missing, or they're aiding and abetting terrorists. It's that simple.
Does this mean that PostGreSQL will actually be able to write *directly* to disk cluster? That would be one serious performance boost! My only request is that they do us all a favor and make sure that we can fragment the tables across spaces. It tends to suck when one table fills an entire drive, and it refuses to use all the space on the other drives.