Buran can fly itself. There are removable engine packs that can be fitted on the tail. These were used for ferrying and the flight tests. There is a photo on the manufacturer's web site.
You are right about the AN-124/224's though - those big buggers are massive, and I have only seen the smaller one from a distance.
Interestingly enough, it was possible to fit jet engines directly to Buran. Buran could take off and land under its own steam and this was used for ferrying as well as the manned landng tests. At least one of the photos of Buran shows these fitted.
AC has taken a stand against the DMCA and he is a European. There are a lot of us who would like to know his take on fighting some of the excesses in the US IP area that are being planned for introduction in the EU. I would include software patents in this as well.
The SEC has already looked at this and have said whilst they were unhappy about some aspects, there was nothing they could do.
According to the article quoted Fiorina definitely did some questionable stuff though which makes me doubt her ability to be a team player. However DB, just looked carefully which way the wind was blowing and followed it. As you say they don't lose.
I have known programmers who faithfully follow the specifications presented to them. Unfortunately, they didn't understand enough to be able to do a sanity check. Often a spec written by someone without a real computer background gets to the point of hand-waving when it covers an award point. A Business Analyst with a real technical bacground would normally try to dig to the bottom of the issue, but many who are not technicaly trained would not realise that the problem hasn't been properly defined.
The end result is that the programmer implements a system that can not work. The system is tested against the faulty spec, and sure they agree. With luck, the bug will be caught in simulation before it goes into production.
I guess you are trolling. What Phil and the others did was to introduce the concept of a decentralised web of trust in a software implementation. The RSA thing is just the key exchange and signature protection algorithm.
Phil did V1.0 himself. Many others helped afterwards, but the main ideas and driving force came from him. Amongst the others involved with the early releases were Branko Lancaster, Colin Plumb, Pete Gutmann, Jean Loupe-Gailly (of zlib fame) as well as many others. My contribution was just one of the early ports. Phil only really took a back seat in the development when the feds started giving him problems.
What he did was to make a combination of public and private key algorithms in a form that could be used. The stuff from RSA labs was definitely not so easy to use or integrate. Maybe he was only able to reach out to geeks, but a lot of people who were outside the military/govt world suddenly started using high-end crypto. Thank Phil for that even if didn't invent RSA.
I started reading his books after finding an endorsement by Iain Banks. Ken is definitely a wee bit darker, but his stuff hus got a real bite to it.
I agree with your summary, but would add that his characters often have extremely interesting politics, varying from Marxism through Libertarianism, however they seem to grow in a very interesting way across the books.
MS like to duck a good percentage of their earnings through Foreign Sales Corps. Legal, but definitely major tax avoidance. Also, those share options aren't being treated in a fair way for taxes.
MS pay some taxes, but not enough to complain about their ecosystem being polluted by the GPL.
Please remember that Stallman created the GPL when he discovered the MIT AI lab having to pay a lot for software largely produced by the AI lab. Someone definitely ripped off the tax-payer there!
You didn't see the rest of them, Terrence Stamp and Guy Pearce played the others on a road trip from Sydney to Alice It was of the funniest films I have seen and it certainly makes you see Agent Smith/Elrond in a different light.
Any actor who can do something seriously different like this film is ok by me - at least they don't take themselves too seriously.
Please remember that Hugo Weaving also played one of the drag queens in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert".
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Broadbent wasn't a bad choice, He had two good movies this year, Iris for which he was nominated and Moulin Rouge. Personally, I preferred the energy of the latter.
Everyone knows that Mr Jackson has done a trilogy, so I believe in the Ring and McKellan will get his Oscar either for the Two Towers or the Return of the King.
The renaming of this bill into an act for the promotion of Broadband etc., is certainly Newspeak and would definitely make Orwell proud to see that 1984 lives on.
Lets be absolutely fair, this bill is about one thing only, total control over the production and distribution of digital media. If anyone non-technical cares to listen, they may be reminded why Hollywood exists.
Hollywood was founded to escape from tight control and enforcemnt of various key patents on the production and display of movie pictures (a lot owned by our friend Edison). This was based around New York, so the guys who wanted to make pictures did so as far away as possible (but with better weather), so they went to the west coast.
Why do I bring this up, well perhaps Hollywood itself should be reminded that tight IP isn't good for business. One of the most productive cinema industries in the world is "Bollywood", in India. Their products are smaller scale but are widely pirated. However, they still seem very profitable.
I say to give the industry a choice. They can have perfect protection of IP. Then they should have copyright lasting five years only. After which the stuff can sent via HDTV or broadband and nobody need to give a damn about protection.
As somebody else says, they don't necessarily know that. But most importantly tell people who are old enough.
The renaming of this act is almost Orwellian - promotion of Broadband Cable and HDTV? It sounds good, so explain to people why it is really a very bad idea.
Um, in Central Asia, a 486 is still quite useful. Sure they have the basics, but it is the stupid stuff like accounting that gives problems. Many enterprises do not have one single computer!!!!!
Actually, I have found it is better to use standard keyboards for traders. I have used some wonderful multi-function keyboards, but they get trashed as fast as the simple ones. It is better to use a standard/cheap keyboard that you can discard as soon as the trader trashes it (either intentionally or by spilling coffee in it).
Klingons are probably somewhat more rational than some traders that I know! However some traders would love to have a "Launch Photon Torpedoes" button.
What operating system? I would have thought Klingons would want to code down to the metal.
Any OS they would want would be strictly limited in scope like an I/O executive a file system and a simple CLI.
Any system would run one application only, and extremely well. The GUI would be part of the application and touch screens whould be used for inputs. Mice would be banned due to being thrown across the room and destroyed by bad-tempered users.
Think of the way that our Military use/abuse computers in the field. I guess that is the way Klingons would want to work.
The Game that I worked on was a Stock Exchange, except it was for real. A lot of very similar problems though!!!!!
We used a multilayered communications architecture but kicked everything back to the server systems. One server was elected as a broadcaster and it would be responsible for assembling the known facts about the world (i.e, market state) and broadcasting them through the other layers.
The comms layers meant that the host didn't have to have a connection to every client.
I disagree. The need for cleanroom techniques is restricted to where you are seeking interoperability but need to prove that your code is different.
Looking at just one game may be dangerous, but looking at several would surely do no harm. I firmly believe that unles algorithms used are patented, reading and learning from source code is good for anyone.
I started coding long before before OpenSource but after Unix was restricted. Many other programs were still available as source code and it was always interesting learning about the trade-offs involved in building large programs.
Nuclear materials are used every day for medical purposes and for metallurgical inspection. These are not microsources as used in smoke-detectors. These are serious.
The nuclear material is usually well protected in metal cylinders, which are also quite nice for use as scrap. In one documented case, the scrap ended up in table legs.
It was only discovered after a truck that had contained the tables passed through a detector at a control point after making an unrelated delivery as Los Alamos. There have been similar documented incidents of contamination in Brazil, Thailand and Turkey as well as others.
I'm not bothering to post all the links. There are too many.
The caches probably do still exist but do not contain nukes. The Soviet system was extremely centralised and I can't see them risking the nukes being found by someone else.
It isn't the first ever sporting event held thereas the article claims. Btw, not only is the South Pole cold, it is also high. Good luck to your friend.
There is a branch of the extremely social running and drinking club, the Hash House Harriers at one of the bases.
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You are right about the AN-124/224's though - those big buggers are massive, and I have only seen the smaller one from a distance.
Interestingly enough, it was possible to fit jet engines directly to Buran. Buran could take off and land under its own steam and this was used for ferrying as well as the manned landng tests. At least one of the photos of Buran shows these fitted.
AC has taken a stand against the DMCA and he is a European. There are a lot of us who would like to know his take on fighting some of the excesses in the US IP area that are being planned for introduction in the EU. I would include software patents in this as well.
According to the article quoted Fiorina definitely did some questionable stuff though which makes me doubt her ability to be a team player. However DB, just looked carefully which way the wind was blowing and followed it. As you say they don't lose.
The end result is that the programmer implements a system that can not work. The system is tested against the faulty spec, and sure they agree. With luck, the bug will be caught in simulation before it goes into production.
It often isn't.
Phil did V1.0 himself. Many others helped afterwards, but the main ideas and driving force came from him. Amongst the others involved with the early releases were Branko Lancaster, Colin Plumb, Pete Gutmann, Jean Loupe-Gailly (of zlib fame) as well as many others. My contribution was just one of the early ports. Phil only really took a back seat in the development when the feds started giving him problems.
What he did was to make a combination of public and private key algorithms in a form that could be used. The stuff from RSA labs was definitely not so easy to use or integrate. Maybe he was only able to reach out to geeks, but a lot of people who were outside the military/govt world suddenly started using high-end crypto. Thank Phil for that even if didn't invent RSA.
I agree with your summary, but would add that his characters often have extremely interesting politics, varying from Marxism through Libertarianism, however they seem to grow in a very interesting way across the books.
MS pay some taxes, but not enough to complain about their ecosystem being polluted by the GPL.
Please remember that Stallman created the GPL when he discovered the MIT AI lab having to pay a lot for software largely produced by the AI lab. Someone definitely ripped off the tax-payer there!
It is clear that some people see this as being primarily US money and thus putting the blame on US, whether or not it is deserved.
Any actor who can do something seriously different like this film is ok by me - at least they don't take themselves too seriously.
Nice Frock!!!!!
Please remember that Hugo Weaving also played one of the drag queens in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert".
Everyone knows that Mr Jackson has done a trilogy, so I believe in the Ring and McKellan will get his Oscar either for the Two Towers or the Return of the King.
Lets be absolutely fair, this bill is about one thing only, total control over the production and distribution of digital media. If anyone non-technical cares to listen, they may be reminded why Hollywood exists.
Hollywood was founded to escape from tight control and enforcemnt of various key patents on the production and display of movie pictures (a lot owned by our friend Edison). This was based around New York, so the guys who wanted to make pictures did so as far away as possible (but with better weather), so they went to the west coast.
Why do I bring this up, well perhaps Hollywood itself should be reminded that tight IP isn't good for business. One of the most productive cinema industries in the world is "Bollywood", in India. Their products are smaller scale but are widely pirated. However, they still seem very profitable.
I say to give the industry a choice. They can have perfect protection of IP. Then they should have copyright lasting five years only. After which the stuff can sent via HDTV or broadband and nobody need to give a damn about protection.
The renaming of this act is almost Orwellian - promotion of Broadband Cable and HDTV? It sounds good, so explain to people why it is really a very bad idea.
The wired jacket would be good for spectators though - but maybe a little expensive.
Um, in Central Asia, a 486 is still quite useful. Sure they have the basics, but it is the stupid stuff like accounting that gives problems. Many enterprises do not have one single computer!!!!!
Klingons are probably somewhat more rational than some traders that I know! However some traders would love to have a "Launch Photon Torpedoes" button.
Any OS they would want would be strictly limited in scope like an I/O executive a file system and a simple CLI.
Any system would run one application only, and extremely well. The GUI would be part of the application and touch screens whould be used for inputs. Mice would be banned due to being thrown across the room and destroyed by bad-tempered users.
Think of the way that our Military use/abuse computers in the field. I guess that is the way Klingons would want to work.
16. Klingon programs don't do accountancy. For that, you need a Ferengi. I can only begin to imagine what a Ferengi program would be like:
Note that any Ferengi Computer would feature price negotiated scheduling and routing.
Any other suggestions?
We used a multilayered communications architecture but kicked everything back to the server systems. One server was elected as a broadcaster and it would be responsible for assembling the known facts about the world (i.e, market state) and broadcasting them through the other layers.
The comms layers meant that the host didn't have to have a connection to every client.
Looking at just one game may be dangerous, but looking at several would surely do no harm. I firmly believe that unles algorithms used are patented, reading and learning from source code is good for anyone.
I started coding long before before OpenSource but after Unix was restricted. Many other programs were still available as source code and it was always interesting learning about the trade-offs involved in building large programs.
The nuclear material is usually well protected in metal cylinders, which are also quite nice for use as scrap. In one documented case, the scrap ended up in table legs.
It was only discovered after a truck that had contained the tables passed through a detector at a control point after making an unrelated delivery as Los Alamos. There have been similar documented incidents of contamination in Brazil, Thailand and Turkey as well as others.
I'm not bothering to post all the links. There are too many.
The caches probably do still exist but do not contain nukes. The Soviet system was extremely centralised and I can't see them risking the nukes being found by someone else.
There is a branch of the extremely social running and drinking club, the Hash House Harriers at one of the bases.