No, Chernobyl was not "all about location," although you'd hope that the mistake of putting a nuclear reactor on a fault line wouldn't be made twice. The problem was with the design of the RBMK (?) reactor, which was unstable in low power conditions like the ones immediately leading up to the disaster. The very safe ones which have been built more recently in Europe are designed to fail safe. So, if you do something silly with your pressurised water reactor and lose all of the coolant the reaction stops, rather than "doing a Chernobyl."
...you do have the choice to use either the CRT's open() function or Windows' OpenFile/CreateFile API calls; You don't have to use the more complicated one if you don't want the extra features. Most of the nastier parameters to CreateFile, such as that infrequently-used SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES structure, can be passed NULL to get default behaviour, so you don't have to set up the ACL on the file by hand if you don't want to.
I'm afraid it's the old rule coming into play here; Some complicated tasks require complicated APIs. On the other hand, MS could have stuck with *nix's user/group/everybody permissions and never required a CreateFile API. I'm sure the merits of ACLs are a bone of contention in some places.
Nope, it wouldn't be possible for Apple (or, rather, the manufacturer) to license the iTrip in the UK. There isn't any FM frequency sharing for a given transmitter area in the UK and all of the frequencies have been licensed already.
Oh, and the importer has had the illegality of the device quietly pointed out to them and they've decided to withdraw it. Hardly a demonstration of "Zero Tolerance."
Such a system already exists. The staff in the Cambridge University computer science department have worn tracker badges for years (they were old back in 1994) and could be looked up on the lab's web page.
Never did check how much time they spent in the bathroom, though.
To be precise: buying a put option on a share gives you the right to sell that share on (or sometimes before) a given date at a given price. If the shares go down, you win. If the shares go up above the option price, you lose all the money you put down.
This may be the same thing that you meant, or it may not.
Thank you for the pointers. I haven't had to consider orbital mechanics since my part 1B physics exams nine years ago and now I've started thinking about it again. Aaargh! Cannot.... get... astrophysics... out... of.. my... head!
My previous employer was a Formula 1 team. At most of the tracks we had an internet connection back to the factory (over ISDN,) but the fastest way to get the (several GB per weekend) of data home was on a Firewire hard drive in hand luggage on the plane.
Was that undergrad text book picture of the sphere an experiment performed in a vacuum? I only ask because I've seen a similar experiment with a shaped mirror in air where the propulsion was caused by the heat expasion of the air under the mirror.
The trouble with that analogy is that you can only tack a sail boat because it has a centreboard to stop it from going sideways, which is difficult to arrange for in space. Try it without sometime.
The other comments about gravity doing the moving-towards-the-sun bit sound right, though.
On the other hand, their share price has been pretty good recently. Maybe shouting at IBM isn't so bad financially for SCO's stock option-endowed directors (yet.)
As I understand it, P4s have been performing better in some of the benchmarks with HT turned off. It would have been good to see two lots of numbers for the test, though, with HT on and off.
I guess that Ars Technica will have a comparison in the not-too-distant.
If you go and have a search on www.arstechnica.com for their PPC970 article, you'll find the information you need. Altivec has been added to the PPC970 (which is what the G5 is presumed to be)
IIRC, this was done some time ago with the current telephone network. Something to do with convincing one exchange that it had a fault, and that took down all of the surrounding exchanges.
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Caldera *is* SCO. SCO are claiming that somebody else released their code under the GPL. That could be IBM, or it could be somebody else.
Please send links to pages quoting these thousands of legal experts who support SCO's case. I've not seen one yet and I like a good laugh.
No, Chernobyl was not "all about location," although you'd hope that the mistake of putting a nuclear reactor on a fault line wouldn't be made twice. The problem was with the design of the RBMK (?) reactor, which was unstable in low power conditions like the ones immediately leading up to the disaster. The very safe ones which have been built more recently in Europe are designed to fail safe. So, if you do something silly with your pressurised water reactor and lose all of the coolant the reaction stops, rather than "doing a Chernobyl."
Obligatory link:
Great Northeast Blackout of '65
Basically, the reason for this blackout is that nobody learned from the experience 38 years ago.
...you do have the choice to use either the CRT's open() function or Windows' OpenFile/CreateFile API calls; You don't have to use the more complicated one if you don't want the extra features. Most of the nastier parameters to CreateFile, such as that infrequently-used SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES structure, can be passed NULL to get default behaviour, so you don't have to set up the ACL on the file by hand if you don't want to.
I'm afraid it's the old rule coming into play here; Some complicated tasks require complicated APIs. On the other hand, MS could have stuck with *nix's user/group/everybody permissions and never required a CreateFile API. I'm sure the merits of ACLs are a bone of contention in some places.
Or any laptop receiving email over a cellular modem or wireless LAN card, does it not?
Nope, it wouldn't be possible for Apple (or, rather, the manufacturer) to license the iTrip in the UK. There isn't any FM frequency sharing for a given transmitter area in the UK and all of the frequencies have been licensed already.
Oh, and the importer has had the illegality of the device quietly pointed out to them and they've decided to withdraw it. Hardly a demonstration of "Zero Tolerance."
If they operated on the broadcast FM band then yes, they would be illegal. But they don't.
Such a system already exists. The staff in the Cambridge University computer science department have worn tracker badges for years (they were old back in 1994) and could be looked up on the lab's web page.
Never did check how much time they spent in the bathroom, though.
All we need to do is get together $169.3M (Yahoo) and we can buy them outright.
Now, how much change have I got down the back of the sofa?
To be precise: buying a put option on a share gives you the right to sell that share on (or sometimes before) a given date at a given price. If the shares go down, you win. If the shares go up above the option price, you lose all the money you put down.
This may be the same thing that you meant, or it may not.
"I'm ready, master."
Ah, happy memories.
Thank you for the pointers. I haven't had to consider orbital mechanics since my part 1B physics exams nine years ago and now I've started thinking about it again. Aaargh! Cannot.... get... astrophysics... out... of.. my... head!
Cheers. I shall dig out my copy of Hecht.
Didn't read the name of the poster, then? Have a look again now and read it aloud.
My previous employer was a Formula 1 team. At most of the tracks we had an internet connection back to the factory (over ISDN,) but the fastest way to get the (several GB per weekend) of data home was on a Firewire hard drive in hand luggage on the plane.
No, the transfer rate is good but the latency sucks. What ping time does FedEx give you? :)
Was that undergrad text book picture of the sphere an experiment performed in a vacuum? I only ask because I've seen a similar experiment with a shaped mirror in air where the propulsion was caused by the heat expasion of the air under the mirror.
The trouble with that analogy is that you can only tack a sail boat because it has a centreboard to stop it from going sideways, which is difficult to arrange for in space. Try it without sometime.
The other comments about gravity doing the moving-towards-the-sun bit sound right, though.
On the other hand, their share price has been pretty good recently. Maybe shouting at IBM isn't so bad financially for SCO's stock option-endowed directors (yet.)
As I understand it, P4s have been performing better in some of the benchmarks with HT turned off. It would have been good to see two lots of numbers for the test, though, with HT on and off.
I guess that Ars Technica will have a comparison in the not-too-distant.
If you go and have a search on www.arstechnica.com for their PPC970 article, you'll find the information you need. Altivec has been added to the PPC970 (which is what the G5 is presumed to be)
You can't read Lord of the Rings too many times. Get yourself in peak condition for the release of The Return of the King.
Or maybe the title of the book "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome, which is where the Simpsons episode name will have come from.
Doh!
IIRC, this was done some time ago with the current telephone network. Something to do with convincing one exchange that it had a fault, and that took down all of the surrounding exchanges.