How about original linkage? : http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/09/04/microsoft.sued.over.wga The lawsuit is for $5 million for the whole class. You do the math and tell me if this is to benefit the lawyers or the end users. This isn't about MS, it's about lawyers making money. I have a feeling there will be a lot of misplaced outrage in these comments.
Also, it was a high priority update, _not_ a critical security update. Inflammatory summaries again.
Seriously, once you get to 1 mbit, web browsing is about as good as it gets. Like blinking twice as fast, you simply don't notice. Unless you're into YouTube HD, in which case 4 mbit will be noticeable. I get my television channels delivered on a 4~5 mbit connection. Now, I can see a reason for speed with online backups, etc., but unless you're torrenting, what does your top speed really matter?
You want a car analogy? Where's the metric on which country has the fastest average top-speed per capita? Does it really matter?
What I want to know is, exactly how many people could watch the Superbowl if it was ONLY delivered via the internet. Who cares how fast the last mile is if the web servers and backbone infrastructure are way, way, WAY oversubscribed?
It all just seems like a lot of to-do over something that's not so terribly important.
Bzzzt, wrong. POTS uses CAT3, which is untwisted. Straight bundled wires.
THIS is why they use unequal length PAIRS
Bzzt again. That is why they use different _twist_rates_ , the differing lengths is simply a result of that.
Twisted pairs are twisted so as to equalize exposure of each wire to external EMF interference. Straight wires can act as antennas and shields, where one wire is subject to EMF energy while shielding the other, thus creating an imbalance in voltage which can at best flip a bit on the wire, or at worst create enough of a differential to arc over your electronic bits at either end. Twisting exposes each wire equally, so the received energy cancels itself out.
Note that when you twist two wires together, they reach a shorter distance, because the wire now has to follow a longer spiral path. More twists means more distance. So to make up for the loss in length you need to use more wire. Thus a differing number of twists means a different amount of wire is needed to reach the same distance. Not a lot, but there _is_ a difference.
In ancient times, clamps were made by putting a wooden rod between two ropes and using the rod to twist the ropes, pulling the two ends closer together. Same principle.
The wires are in pairs. Color coded pairs. Depending on your point of view, the green pair is TX (transmit) and the orange pair is RX (receive). Since the green pair (solid/striped pair) is twisted together, both green wires are the same length. Both orange wires are the same length (although green and orange may have slightly different lengths).
ALL of the signal data is transmitted in ONE DIRECTION on ONE PAIR (man I love caps emphasis) whose wires are the SAME LENGTH.
Understand that yet? Data from component A to component B travels over two wires which are the _same length_. Data back from component B to A travels over another pair of same-length wires. There is no "messing" with clock data, as it's all serial. And even if it used the 1000-T/TX standard requiring 2 pairs per direction, the difference in length of conductors in a 10 meter long cable (10 meters would be a very big audio rack) is 4.44 centimeters (assuming 24 ga and standard insulation thickness and miswiring to get longest/shortest paired). Rounding that up to 5 centimeters, and using 300 million meters/second for speed of light, and.64c propogation speed in the wire, I get about one four-billionth of a second difference. Meaning your sample rate would need to be in the GHz range, and which means if you can tell the difference, you would be able to "hear" VHF and UHF radio waves.
Keep rationalizing though... it keeps my debunking skills fresh.
The scenery was cool, but not all that impressive. If you've ever played the Myst series of games, you'll know that striking visuals and landscapes like that have been done before. In fact, my first reaction on seeing Pandora was that it looked just like something I'd expect to see in Riven, and that's nearly a decade old.
The graphics were...ok. Sorry, but I really expected better. The cgi rendered reflections in the soldiers' face masks was a nice detail touch, but it made them look artificial. No stray strands of hair, 'flat' skin (just texture, not topographically modeled), and odd lighting effects looked unnatural.
The physics weren't all that great either. Turn your hand around quickly and you'll notice it 'jiggles' for a moment after you stop it. Not in the movie.. flesh didn't behave as I expected. Watch closely in the background when they are climbing up to choose their flying mounts, you'll notice their movements look like insects. We're introduced to scarface while he's lifting weights so he can keep in shape in the 'low gravity', and yet I saw no low gravity effects.
The sounds were the killer though. Whoever did the sound effects needs to be fired (upon). All of the flying craft used ducted fans for propulsion, and yet they all made the sounds of a helicopter. That, to me was the most distracting element, especially because there were so many scenes with flying craft.
It was good, yes. But not great. It was't realistic enough for me to believe... I kept getting jarred back to reality by the incongruities. You notice something isn't quite right, and maybe you can't put you finger on it, but it still nags at the back of your mind to remind you it's fake. And all of that could be forgiven if the story were compelling enough, but I've read too many similar 'persecuted aliens' stories to be impressed. It was, at least, worth the price of admission, which is something I find is all too rare these days.
September 2008: Android 1.0 March 2009: 1.1 May 2009: 1.5 September 2009: 1.6 October 2009: 2.0
Sorry, but by the time a phone maker qualifies the newest version for use on a particuar phone, it's likely there'll be a newer version of Android out...so...why bother? If you're always going to be behind the timjes, might as well just concentrate on your newest offerings, instead of trying to make sure that Android x.x is backwards compatible with your old hardware.
Perhaps a major release with new features only once a year, and bugfixes and efficiency improvments in point upgrades as needed.
Sorry but, too many people have learned that upgrading the OS breaks 3rd party apps, thus I can see why phone makers prefer stability over feature improvements.
Those drones have to land. And the pilots need the video feeds to see where they're landing.
So the drones are broadcasting a birds-eye view of their base.... to the enemy.
Yes, the security risk is real, and severe. Telling an enemy where your drone base is and giving him an arial view of it, live, doesn't make for sound sleeping at night, in my book.
Seasoning isn't magnetite formation, it's amorphous carbon formation. Someone got blueing confused with seasoning. Not too many people at home boil their pans in potassium nitrate and lye to season them. Worse, the article says something about oil protecting the metal from the oxygen in the air so that rust won't form, yet the formation of magnetite requires oxygen to react with the iron.
The year is 2002, not 2009. SMS was not very prevalent at the time, and inter-provider SMS was still occasionally glitchy. That was the time of dedicated alphanumeric pagers waning in popularity while the 'cool kids who wanted to be like the drug dealers' were discovering SMS on their phones.
I think you missed the point, as did anyone who modded it troll.
The language that effectively ties NASA's hands was inserted in the bill by Senator Richard Shelby, a Republican from...drum roll please.... Alabama. Where NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is located.
And that language boils down to: "no changes". Subcontract a part of the crew module out to Russia, Germany or France? No. Not unless Congress approves. Even if it'll get Ares off the ground sooner...nope. Cancel or delay Ares I to concentrate on Ares V? Nope. Even though Russia already has, and will continue to have, the capability to put people in orbit thus rendering Ares I redundant, while what's really needed is the heavy-lift capability of Ares V.
Shelby wants one thing: Money in Alabama. So say bye bye to Kennedy Space center, and write off the US Government using commercially (read: private industry) available means to ferry crew to space. If SpaceX or Virgin Galactic manages to get people into LEO by 2015, NASA wouldn't be able to buy a seat without Congress' approval.
The 'no changes' language has nothing to do with getting into space or not, and everything to do with making sure money flows to contractors in Alabama.
As a foodie, all I have to say is that a large part of the taste of a good steak comes from the FAT content of the meat, and that _pure_ 'cultivated' muscle tissue would make for a terrible steak, and an even worse hamburger.
Until they manage to grow a well-marbled piece of meat, they won't be any better than a tofu burger.
"The people at the Johnson Space Center put together this video of the assent of STS-129"
So what exactly did STS129 agree to? I won't grammar nazi the comments, but seeing a front page mistake like that is annoying. Especially when it's spelled right in the title.
Another idea behind a UPS is _a_single_point_of_failure_. Moving the power backups to the individual servers eliminates that worry. Plus, since the servers are already redundant, you don't need the redundancy on the UPS, inverters, etc., which should save money. And since it's long-term, I'm willing to wager it won't be lead-acid, but NiMH. So no real maintenance issues. And your "what happens if..." scenarios apply equally to a battery in a megawatt UPS or a battery in a server. As for battery management and 'specialized' power supplies, etc.: go check out a laptop. That wheel has already been invented, and better yet, has benefitted from mass-production.
Aside from the inconvenience, I haven't seen the health issues addressed. Mainly, what happens to the human eye when it's not only insulated by a contact lens, but also heated by the 330 microwatts needed to power these things?
I'd mod you up if I had points. Apparently Cringely hasn't thought about how valuable a few hundred metric tons of refined materials would be in orbit. Instead he says "Nope, we have to gather the stuff and bring it back to Earth." He fails to realize that _someone_ would certainly pay for access to all of that material. He also fails to realize that a polar orbit intersecting an equatorial orbit will result in a relative velocity of about 10 kilometers per second, which equates to 50 megajoules per kilogram. Carbon nanotubes or not, nothing is going to withstand such a large amount of energy in such a small area, repeatedly, along with whatever centripetal forces are acquired from off-center hits from debris.
A visionary he might be, but a practical engineer he is definitely not.
Been there done that, and DEP status doesn't change unless a reboot happens. And if you've got DEP set to optin in boot.ini, it'll always re-enable itself. Yes, there are other ways to change it, but I always preferred to go directly to the root.
If you're having problems installing the updated Shockwave player, it may be because you have Data Execution Prevention enabled.
To disable: Look in the root of your C: drive for boot.ini. Start a command line. Attrib c:\boot.ini -r -a -s -h Edit boot.ini (In notepad) Look for "noexecute=optin" and change it to "noexecute=AlwaysOff" (don't add or remove any spaces, line breaks, etc) Save boot.ini. In the command window type attrib c:\boot.ini +r +a +s +h Reboot. DEP is now disabled. Install the Shockwave Player update.
Re-edit boot.ini to re-enable Data Execution Prevention, and reboot once again.
Alternatively you can save a copy of the edited boot.ini, set the attribs to +r +a +s +h, and rename as necessary in case (read: when) you need to disable DEP again in the future.
I figure a lot of users are going to have this problem (again), as Adobe still hasn't fixed this bug.
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How about original linkage? : http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/09/04/microsoft.sued.over.wga
The lawsuit is for $5 million for the whole class. You do the math and tell me if this is to benefit the lawyers or the end users. This isn't about MS, it's about lawyers making money. I have a feeling there will be a lot of misplaced outrage in these comments.
Also, it was a high priority update, _not_ a critical security update. Inflammatory summaries again.
Seriously, once you get to 1 mbit, web browsing is about as good as it gets. Like blinking twice as fast, you simply don't notice.
Unless you're into YouTube HD, in which case 4 mbit will be noticeable. I get my television channels delivered on a 4~5 mbit connection. Now, I can see a reason for speed with online backups, etc., but unless you're torrenting, what does your top speed really matter?
You want a car analogy? Where's the metric on which country has the fastest average top-speed per capita? Does it really matter?
What I want to know is, exactly how many people could watch the Superbowl if it was ONLY delivered via the internet. Who cares how fast the last mile is if the web servers and backbone infrastructure are way, way, WAY oversubscribed?
It all just seems like a lot of to-do over something that's not so terribly important.
Egads, man.
its the same that POTS uses
Bzzzt, wrong. POTS uses CAT3, which is untwisted. Straight bundled wires.
THIS is why they use unequal length PAIRS
Bzzt again. That is why they use different _twist_rates_ , the differing lengths is simply a result of that.
Twisted pairs are twisted so as to equalize exposure of each wire to external EMF interference. Straight wires can act as antennas and shields, where one wire is subject to EMF energy while shielding the other, thus creating an imbalance in voltage which can at best flip a bit on the wire, or at worst create enough of a differential to arc over your electronic bits at either end. Twisting exposes each wire equally, so the received energy cancels itself out.
Note that when you twist two wires together, they reach a shorter distance, because the wire now has to follow a longer spiral path. More twists means more distance. So to make up for the loss in length you need to use more wire. Thus a differing number of twists means a different amount of wire is needed to reach the same distance. Not a lot, but there _is_ a difference.
In ancient times, clamps were made by putting a wooden rod between two ropes and using the rod to twist the ropes, pulling the two ends closer together. Same principle.
No, please let ME explain this.
The wires are in pairs. Color coded pairs.
Depending on your point of view, the green pair is TX (transmit) and the orange pair is RX (receive).
Since the green pair (solid/striped pair) is twisted together, both green wires are the same length. Both orange wires are the same length (although green and orange may have slightly different lengths).
ALL of the signal data is transmitted in ONE DIRECTION on ONE PAIR (man I love caps emphasis) whose wires are the SAME LENGTH.
Understand that yet? Data from component A to component B travels over two wires which are the _same length_. Data back from component B to A travels over another pair of same-length wires. There is no "messing" with clock data, as it's all serial. And even if it used the 1000-T/TX standard requiring 2 pairs per direction, the difference in length of conductors in a 10 meter long cable (10 meters would be a very big audio rack) is 4.44 centimeters (assuming 24 ga and standard insulation thickness and miswiring to get longest/shortest paired). Rounding that up to 5 centimeters, and using 300 million meters/second for speed of light, and .64c propogation speed in the wire, I get about one four-billionth of a second difference. Meaning your sample rate would need to be in the GHz range, and which means if you can tell the difference, you would be able to "hear" VHF and UHF radio waves.
Keep rationalizing though... it keeps my debunking skills fresh.
The scenery was cool, but not all that impressive. If you've ever played the Myst series of games, you'll know that striking visuals and landscapes like that have been done before. In fact, my first reaction on seeing Pandora was that it looked just like something I'd expect to see in Riven, and that's nearly a decade old.
The graphics were...ok. Sorry, but I really expected better. The cgi rendered reflections in the soldiers' face masks was a nice detail touch, but it made them look artificial. No stray strands of hair, 'flat' skin (just texture, not topographically modeled), and odd lighting effects looked unnatural.
The physics weren't all that great either. Turn your hand around quickly and you'll notice it 'jiggles' for a moment after you stop it. Not in the movie.. flesh didn't behave as I expected. Watch closely in the background when they are climbing up to choose their flying mounts, you'll notice their movements look like insects. We're introduced to scarface while he's lifting weights so he can keep in shape in the 'low gravity', and yet I saw no low gravity effects.
The sounds were the killer though. Whoever did the sound effects needs to be fired (upon). All of the flying craft used ducted fans for propulsion, and yet they all made the sounds of a helicopter. That, to me was the most distracting element, especially because there were so many scenes with flying craft.
It was good, yes. But not great. It was't realistic enough for me to believe... I kept getting jarred back to reality by the incongruities. You notice something isn't quite right, and maybe you can't put you finger on it, but it still nags at the back of your mind to remind you it's fake. And all of that could be forgiven if the story were compelling enough, but I've read too many similar 'persecuted aliens' stories to be impressed. It was, at least, worth the price of admission, which is something I find is all too rare these days.
Seriously, the document in question should have been uploaded to WikiLeaks.
Anyone have a copy or linkage? I can't find it.
September 2008: Android 1.0
March 2009: 1.1
May 2009: 1.5
September 2009: 1.6
October 2009: 2.0
Sorry, but by the time a phone maker qualifies the newest version for use on a particuar phone, it's likely there'll be a newer version of Android out...so...why bother? If you're always going to be behind the timjes, might as well just concentrate on your newest offerings, instead of trying to make sure that Android x.x is backwards compatible with your old hardware.
Perhaps a major release with new features only once a year, and bugfixes and efficiency improvments in point upgrades as needed.
Sorry but, too many people have learned that upgrading the OS breaks 3rd party apps, thus I can see why phone makers prefer stability over feature improvements.
Those drones have to land. And the pilots need the video feeds to see where they're landing.
So the drones are broadcasting a birds-eye view of their base.... to the enemy.
Yes, the security risk is real, and severe. Telling an enemy where your drone base is and giving him an arial view of it, live, doesn't make for sound sleeping at night, in my book.
Ok, I'll bite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_iron_cookware#Seasoning
Seasoning isn't magnetite formation, it's amorphous carbon formation. Someone got blueing confused with seasoning. Not too many people at home boil their pans in potassium nitrate and lye to season them. Worse, the article says something about oil protecting the metal from the oxygen in the air so that rust won't form, yet the formation of magnetite requires oxygen to react with the iron.
The year is 2002, not 2009. SMS was not very prevalent at the time, and inter-provider SMS was still occasionally glitchy. That was the time of dedicated alphanumeric pagers waning in popularity while the 'cool kids who wanted to be like the drug dealers' were discovering SMS on their phones.
I think you missed the point, as did anyone who modded it troll.
The language that effectively ties NASA's hands was inserted in the bill by Senator Richard Shelby, a Republican from...drum roll please.... Alabama. Where NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is located.
And that language boils down to: "no changes". Subcontract a part of the crew module out to Russia, Germany or France? No. Not unless Congress approves. Even if it'll get Ares off the ground sooner...nope. Cancel or delay Ares I to concentrate on Ares V? Nope. Even though Russia already has, and will continue to have, the capability to put people in orbit thus rendering Ares I redundant, while what's really needed is the heavy-lift capability of Ares V.
Shelby wants one thing: Money in Alabama. So say bye bye to Kennedy Space center, and write off the US Government using commercially (read: private industry) available means to ferry crew to space. If SpaceX or Virgin Galactic manages to get people into LEO by 2015, NASA wouldn't be able to buy a seat without Congress' approval.
The 'no changes' language has nothing to do with getting into space or not, and everything to do with making sure money flows to contractors in Alabama.
Personally, I'd never trust a lightbulb test done by the blind.
As a foodie, all I have to say is that a large part of the taste of a good steak comes from the FAT content of the meat, and that _pure_ 'cultivated' muscle tissue would make for a terrible steak, and an even worse hamburger.
Until they manage to grow a well-marbled piece of meat, they won't be any better than a tofu burger.
Que Tera Tera?
"The people at the Johnson Space Center put together this video of the assent of STS-129"
So what exactly did STS129 agree to?
I won't grammar nazi the comments, but seeing a front page mistake like that is annoying. Especially when it's spelled right in the title.
s/assent/ascent
Another idea behind a UPS is _a_single_point_of_failure_. Moving the power backups to the individual servers eliminates that worry. Plus, since the servers are already redundant, you don't need the redundancy on the UPS, inverters, etc., which should save money.
And since it's long-term, I'm willing to wager it won't be lead-acid, but NiMH. So no real maintenance issues. And your "what happens if..." scenarios apply equally to a battery in a megawatt UPS or a battery in a server.
As for battery management and 'specialized' power supplies, etc.: go check out a laptop. That wheel has already been invented, and better yet, has benefitted from mass-production.
Three-Phase power is generally cheaper when you're talking megawatts, and can be used more efficiently.
Linkage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_electric_power
A typical office building will use flourescent lighting based on 277 volt supply.
(note the above applies only to the United States)
Aside from the inconvenience, I haven't seen the health issues addressed. Mainly, what happens to the human eye when it's not only insulated by a contact lens, but also heated by the 330 microwatts needed to power these things?
Hear hear!
I wholeheartedly suggest an additional "exclude comments rated funny" checkbox in the filter.
I'd mod you up if I had points. Apparently Cringely hasn't thought about how valuable a few hundred metric tons of refined materials would be in orbit. Instead he says "Nope, we have to gather the stuff and bring it back to Earth." He fails to realize that _someone_ would certainly pay for access to all of that material. He also fails to realize that a polar orbit intersecting an equatorial orbit will result in a relative velocity of about 10 kilometers per second, which equates to 50 megajoules per kilogram. Carbon nanotubes or not, nothing is going to withstand such a large amount of energy in such a small area, repeatedly, along with whatever centripetal forces are acquired from off-center hits from debris.
A visionary he might be, but a practical engineer he is definitely not.
From TFA: "CBS is now releasing this version on Blu-ray Dec. 15"
Only Blu-ray? I predict a spike in Blu-ray sales that's higher than expected for Christmas.
Either that or new records will be set for the most downloaded pirated TV show.
Been there done that, and DEP status doesn't change unless a reboot happens. And if you've got DEP set to optin in boot.ini, it'll always re-enable itself. Yes, there are other ways to change it, but I always preferred to go directly to the root.
If you're having problems installing the updated Shockwave player, it may be because you have Data Execution Prevention enabled.
To disable:
Look in the root of your C: drive for boot.ini.
Start a command line. Attrib c:\boot.ini -r -a -s -h
Edit boot.ini (In notepad)
Look for "noexecute=optin" and change it to "noexecute=AlwaysOff" (don't add or remove any spaces, line breaks, etc)
Save boot.ini.
In the command window type attrib c:\boot.ini +r +a +s +h
Reboot. DEP is now disabled.
Install the Shockwave Player update.
Re-edit boot.ini to re-enable Data Execution Prevention, and reboot once again.
Alternatively you can save a copy of the edited boot.ini, set the attribs to +r +a +s +h, and rename as necessary in case (read: when) you need to disable DEP again in the future.
I figure a lot of users are going to have this problem (again), as Adobe still hasn't fixed this bug.
Seriously, how is programming for gambling all that much different than programming for insurance or actuarial purposes?
Bet a dollar, bet your health, bet your life... it's all in the odds, no?