In related news today, Microsoft brought an anti-trust suit before federal court today against the AOL-Time Warner company.
A Microsoft spokesperson, who for legal reasons must remain un-named, was quoted saying "America Online practices anti-competitive practices, including the way its software sets itself up, taking control over the way your computer connects to the Internet, and refusing to allow other Internet service providers to be used to their maximum potential. This has negatively impacted our MSN Internet service, as well as indirectly cost us time and money as a result of customers calling to complain about incompatibilities with America Online that they believe to be a fault with our products."
It's an open system. There are some thing that I do not believe should be run on an open system. The government is one. The military is another.
A closed system such as MS Windows/Windows NT means that only one company has the potential to put spyware into your computer tracking everything you do at OS level from the time the package is installed.
An open system such as Linux, while infinately less expensive, more reliable when properly configured, isn't secure at the source level. What's to stop Linus, Alan Cox, RMS, or whoever else has a hand in Kernel development to stick in a few mines of undocumented code that log and e-mail input? Hypothetically.
If Linux was a beer, it'd be shipped in open barrels for everyone to have a chance to piss in before it was drunk. Not that everyone *Would* piss in it, but if you were serving that beer to say, the President, wouldn't you rather know that the beer was not contaminated and pay more for it, then take the chance with the free beer?
Linux has it's place - but I, personally, do not believe that that place is in government or the military. Maybe busineses. Corporate espionage is sort of interesting.
I'd have to say that Dev-C++ is the most utter piece of crap I've ever used. Broland 5.0 is FAR superior to it in my opinion, and it's a lowly 16-bit DOS tool.
Dev-C++ absolutely refuses to allow me to use any library function from #include "conio.h" such as clrscr(); and getch(); at the end of my programs to pause results in function redefintion: getchar(); error messages. The same thing works perfectly in Broland...
I think they need to get their act together and clean the program up before it'll be worth anything. The best compiler in the world is only as good as the IDE tied to it, if you're using that. If no IDE, it's as good as your command line skills.
I agree about the upgradeability. My motherboard has 5 PCI slots and that's not enough...I've got 1 left and am trying to decide between another IDE controller or another serial controller (I have a ton of older legacy devices that connect by COM port.) Other than that, I've got *2* SCSI cards, NIC, 56k modem, sound. One of the SCSIs is ISA, but that's gonna change to an AHA-1560 soon.
I'm moderately curious. They seem to have everything decent onboard, with the exception of the video, as well as a PCI slot. For what? It's already got an NIC, sound, controllers, USB, IIRC FireWire, and such.
Maybe, instead of 1 PCI slot, give it an AGP slot?
Not *that* hard to do I'd imagine. I'd 100% definately buy one if I could put my own video card into it.
The literal owner of the CD audio format being sued by people who are using that trademark without meeting its conditions, for making the violation irrelevant.
Philips is a sufficiently big player with a lot of money and lawyers. If they get sued under the DCMA, you can be sure it'll go all the way to the Supreme Court - which is the chance for the law to be struck from the books.
On the other hand, if the supreme court rules the law legal, than there's not much more we can ever do about it.
SCSI does this automatically...drive spin delay can be totally disabled until a START UNIT command is issued from the controller, or set to delay spinup 12sec * SCSI ID.
Pretty much, light is the switch for this bit, instead of an electrical pulse.
Where the paticle is trapping light, it exists in a "0" state according to your equation. (I'd say that while it traps light it exists as a 1 state, simply because it's obviously holding something, but we'll go from your equations.)
Therefore, where C' = C, the actual speed of light, your crystal would have a "1" state, where it had energy.
Binary represntations right there - just what computers use now.
I'd switch the definitions if I were you, but logic gates could be constructed either way I'm sure.
So let me get it straight. 9 years of USENET posts occupy only 16.8GB of hard disk space?
You sure those 10-inch magnetic tapes weren't 1200MB or 120GB or something? Hell, a converted VCR using VHS as a backup medium can store like 100GB (saw one somewhere, I forget the link.)
VisualRoute has been able to do this since like 1995, the first time I remember it. It gives a crude-looking world map, and it tracert's to a given IP/hostname, placing routers and eventually, the final destination, in semi-accurate places on the world map.
Maybe they got it down to a little less of a novelty and more of a useful tool, finally.
As long as the company is based outside of that court's jurisdiction (like in another country) they can legally laugh it off. And rightfully they should.
Windows 2000 has a lot of directory restructuring tools available for you.
SUBST, JOIN, and the like tools from old-school MS DOS let you map directories to drive letters and vice versa.
Windows 2000 also includes a copy of what is, pretty much, Vetrias Voulme Manager, used for making software RAID arrays (called "Dynamic drives") and such. Maybe you could use it (It's found in Administrative Tools>Computer Managment) to do something of that nature. There's a LOT of options about removable media, media pools, and volume management there.
Also check in the MSKB. It's actually helpful if you know what you're looking for.
They did this with horseshoe crabs a looooooong time ago. Now, setting aside that a horseshoe crab is more like a dinosaur than it is like a human, they were able to use a *sonogram* (yes, sound waves) to measure the electrical impulses of the thing's eyes (got me how they did it...) then sever and reconnect them with specially soothing frequencies or something like that.
Human eyes are totally different, but the procedure has been done before...on a much less complex organism.
I *never* said space-based anywhere in my post. Your comments are well thought out and I wouldn't mod you down for that, but I certainly wouldn't mod you up because you didn't read the article.
The anti-satellite laser is on the *ground* somewhere in the desert, probably the testing grounds near White Sands National Monument, in the gypsum fields. It's less of a "laser" and more of an "electromagnetic radiation emmitter" and it fries the satellites less by heat and more by a super-concentrated burst of radio energy.
The 747-mounted laser is a theater-defense weapon designed to fly around "hot-spots" in the world and shoot down something that is launched, within minutes of the launch, by using heat. It's a prototype, not too effective, I don't even think it's had more than one real test. *shrug*
This has really been how it is in any war. In Vietnam, Napalm would hit allies on the ground as well as the enemies. In World War II, bombs would fall astray and kill civilians and soldiers for the same side. If there's a situation involving dangerous equipment, and humans are involved, there *will* be human error. In this case, it's lives lost - but it was going to happen anyway.
Sounds like they put a fire-finder radar tracking station onto a laser. They've had the ability to plot trajectory and such of incoming shells for quite a while, but now they'll be able to do something about it other than leave.
Unfortunately, I have suspicions if this will ever make it to deployment. The U.S. also has an anti-satellite laser weapon that has been tested and confirmed to work by overloading the circuits -- and it was nixed because of the poltical tension it would create.
I'm not an assembly programmer and you can probably tell that by this message, but one thing that really gets to me is people picking apart each others ASM code and calling it a "bad example"
I don't think the author of the second piece of code was trying to be the most efficient ASM programmer that he could be. He was showing that it is half as long as the regular i386 code, and 2 of the 3 lines execute at the same time, making it like a two line long code that does the same thing, with no jumps.
Someone else got reamed out for using
MOV register,0; or something like that instead of
XOR Af,0;
to null something.
*sigh* Nitpicking at its worst. I'm not flaming either of the two posters personally, just commenting on their writing styles.
Is Assembly such an 3l33t language that programmers feel a need to very loudly correct each other's small mistakes?
Honestly - it's about time we saw something like this. I have my boxed set of OS/2 2.0 that I ran instead of Win 3.1 for a while (but later ditched because prorgams wouldn't work right.) It was a great OS - better multitasking, memory managment, etc.
For the new OS/2 to include the system apps to run apps from just about any operating system in existance (Java and legacy Windows apps natively, Linux and newer Windows programs in emulation, and X11 for native Unix apps) it will undoubtedly make it a lot easier to get servers up and running. Want Apache httpd to do your web serving, Oracle for your database, and a unix ftpd, you'd be able to do it from one box, out of the box. That alone is worth quite a bit of money to me.
Wasn't there a thing named IT in an episode of South Park? Mr. Garrison was pissed at airline companies and invented his own form of transportation involing a gyroscope and an anal probe.
I am going to strongly resist commenting about Win9x operating systems in reply to your comment about PCs crashing at random.
I agree competely with that - if people didn't learn how to use the technology to its fullest, by TAKING IT APART and messing with it, our computers would still suffer random hardware-related crashes.
Same with nearly everything. It's too bad that Congress is supported by the large corporations, and a DCMA case has never made it to the Supreme Court.
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In related news today, Microsoft brought an anti-trust suit before federal court today against the AOL-Time Warner company.
A Microsoft spokesperson, who for legal reasons must remain un-named, was quoted saying "America Online practices anti-competitive practices, including the way its software sets itself up, taking control over the way your computer connects to the Internet, and refusing to allow other Internet service providers to be used to their maximum potential. This has negatively impacted our MSN Internet service, as well as indirectly cost us time and money as a result of customers calling to complain about incompatibilities with America Online that they believe to be a fault with our products."
It's an open system. There are some thing that I do not believe should be run on an open system. The government is one. The military is another.
A closed system such as MS Windows/Windows NT means that only one company has the potential to put spyware into your computer tracking everything you do at OS level from the time the package is installed.
An open system such as Linux, while infinately less expensive, more reliable when properly configured, isn't secure at the source level. What's to stop Linus, Alan Cox, RMS, or whoever else has a hand in Kernel development to stick in a few mines of undocumented code that log and e-mail input? Hypothetically.
If Linux was a beer, it'd be shipped in open barrels for everyone to have a chance to piss in before it was drunk. Not that everyone *Would* piss in it, but if you were serving that beer to say, the President, wouldn't you rather know that the beer was not contaminated and pay more for it, then take the chance with the free beer?
Linux has it's place - but I, personally, do not believe that that place is in government or the military. Maybe busineses. Corporate espionage is sort of interesting.
I'd have to say that Dev-C++ is the most utter piece of crap I've ever used. Broland 5.0 is FAR superior to it in my opinion, and it's a lowly 16-bit DOS tool.
Dev-C++ absolutely refuses to allow me to use any library function from #include "conio.h" such as clrscr(); and getch(); at the end of my programs to pause results in function redefintion: getchar(); error messages. The same thing works perfectly in Broland...
I think they need to get their act together and clean the program up before it'll be worth anything. The best compiler in the world is only as good as the IDE tied to it, if you're using that. If no IDE, it's as good as your command line skills.
I used floppies to boot into Win2K install. Apparently, burned discs aren't bootable, even from ISO images...wait, I didn't say that.
Anyways, I still use floppies...not often though, but in VERY necessary situations.
It'd still make a nice LAN box...
I agree about the upgradeability. My motherboard has 5 PCI slots and that's not enough...I've got 1 left and am trying to decide between another IDE controller or another serial controller (I have a ton of older legacy devices that connect by COM port.) Other than that, I've got *2* SCSI cards, NIC, 56k modem, sound. One of the SCSIs is ISA, but that's gonna change to an AHA-1560 soon.
I'm moderately curious. They seem to have everything decent onboard, with the exception of the video, as well as a PCI slot. For what? It's already got an NIC, sound, controllers, USB, IIRC FireWire, and such.
Maybe, instead of 1 PCI slot, give it an AGP slot?
Not *that* hard to do I'd imagine. I'd 100% definately buy one if I could put my own video card into it.
Now, this is going to be an interesting battle.
The literal owner of the CD audio format being sued by people who are using that trademark without meeting its conditions, for making the violation irrelevant.
Philips is a sufficiently big player with a lot of money and lawyers. If they get sued under the DCMA, you can be sure it'll go all the way to the Supreme Court - which is the chance for the law to be struck from the books.
On the other hand, if the supreme court rules the law legal, than there's not much more we can ever do about it.
SCSI does this automatically...drive spin delay can be totally disabled until a START UNIT command is issued from the controller, or set to delay spinup 12sec * SCSI ID.
Very handy for big arrays.
JWK
Binary is either a 0 or a 1 - an "on" or an "off"
Pretty much, light is the switch for this bit, instead of an electrical pulse.
Where the paticle is trapping light, it exists in a "0" state according to your equation. (I'd say that while it traps light it exists as a 1 state, simply because it's obviously holding something, but we'll go from your equations.)
Therefore, where C' = C, the actual speed of light, your crystal would have a "1" state, where it had energy.
Binary represntations right there - just what computers use now.
I'd switch the definitions if I were you, but logic gates could be constructed either way I'm sure.
Try the "x-deja-noarchive=1" command at the end of USENET posts. That used to work...not sure if it does any more.
Google's indexing system might be different than Deja's indexing system.
So let me get it straight. 9 years of USENET posts occupy only 16.8GB of hard disk space?
You sure those 10-inch magnetic tapes weren't 1200MB or 120GB or something? Hell, a converted VCR using VHS as a backup medium can store like 100GB (saw one somewhere, I forget the link.)
VisualRoute has been able to do this since like 1995, the first time I remember it. It gives a crude-looking world map, and it tracert's to a given IP/hostname, placing routers and eventually, the final destination, in semi-accurate places on the world map.
Maybe they got it down to a little less of a novelty and more of a useful tool, finally.
As long as the company is based outside of that court's jurisdiction (like in another country) they can legally laugh it off. And rightfully they should.
Just like Yahoo should have done to France.
A mirror of the ROM image is available on my web site:
http://gamanen.tripod.com/
Please sign the guestbook while you are there.
Windows 2000 has a lot of directory restructuring tools available for you.
SUBST, JOIN, and the like tools from old-school MS DOS let you map directories to drive letters and vice versa.
Windows 2000 also includes a copy of what is, pretty much, Vetrias Voulme Manager, used for making software RAID arrays (called "Dynamic drives") and such. Maybe you could use it (It's found in Administrative Tools>Computer Managment) to do something of that nature. There's a LOT of options about removable media, media pools, and volume management there.
Also check in the MSKB. It's actually helpful if you know what you're looking for.
They did this with horseshoe crabs a looooooong time ago. Now, setting aside that a horseshoe crab is more like a dinosaur than it is like a human, they were able to use a *sonogram* (yes, sound waves) to measure the electrical impulses of the thing's eyes (got me how they did it...) then sever and reconnect them with specially soothing frequencies or something like that.
Human eyes are totally different, but the procedure has been done before...on a much less complex organism.
I *never* said space-based anywhere in my post. Your comments are well thought out and I wouldn't mod you down for that, but I certainly wouldn't mod you up because you didn't read the article.
The anti-satellite laser is on the *ground* somewhere in the desert, probably the testing grounds near White Sands National Monument, in the gypsum fields. It's less of a "laser" and more of an "electromagnetic radiation emmitter" and it fries the satellites less by heat and more by a super-concentrated burst of radio energy.
The 747-mounted laser is a theater-defense weapon designed to fly around "hot-spots" in the world and shoot down something that is launched, within minutes of the launch, by using heat. It's a prototype, not too effective, I don't even think it's had more than one real test. *shrug*
This has really been how it is in any war. In Vietnam, Napalm would hit allies on the ground as well as the enemies. In World War II, bombs would fall astray and kill civilians and soldiers for the same side. If there's a situation involving dangerous equipment, and humans are involved, there *will* be human error. In this case, it's lives lost - but it was going to happen anyway.
Sounds like they put a fire-finder radar tracking station onto a laser. They've had the ability to plot trajectory and such of incoming shells for quite a while, but now they'll be able to do something about it other than leave.
Unfortunately, I have suspicions if this will ever make it to deployment. The U.S. also has an anti-satellite laser weapon that has been tested and confirmed to work by overloading the circuits -- and it was nixed because of the poltical tension it would create.
What childish sig? I don't usually read AC posts. I remember why now.
I'm not an assembly programmer and you can probably tell that by this message, but one thing that really gets to me is people picking apart each others ASM code and calling it a "bad example"
;;
"movl VALUEA, %ebx
testl %eax, %eax
cmovzl VALUEB, %ebx"
or
"p2,p3 = cmp.ne r5,0
(p2)ld8 r4=$VALUEB
(p3)ld8 r4=$VALUEA "
I don't think the author of the second piece of code was trying to be the most efficient ASM programmer that he could be. He was showing that it is half as long as the regular i386 code, and 2 of the 3 lines execute at the same time, making it like a two line long code that does the same thing, with no jumps.
Someone else got reamed out for using
MOV register,0; or something like that instead of
XOR Af,0;
to null something.
*sigh* Nitpicking at its worst. I'm not flaming either of the two posters personally, just commenting on their writing styles.
Is Assembly such an 3l33t language that programmers feel a need to very loudly correct each other's small mistakes?
Hmm.
Honestly - it's about time we saw something like this. I have my boxed set of OS/2 2.0 that I ran instead of Win 3.1 for a while (but later ditched because prorgams wouldn't work right.) It was a great OS - better multitasking, memory managment, etc.
For the new OS/2 to include the system apps to run apps from just about any operating system in existance (Java and legacy Windows apps natively, Linux and newer Windows programs in emulation, and X11 for native Unix apps) it will undoubtedly make it a lot easier to get servers up and running. Want Apache httpd to do your web serving, Oracle for your database, and a unix ftpd, you'd be able to do it from one box, out of the box. That alone is worth quite a bit of money to me.
Sony produces PS/2.
Sony produces PS/2 Linux.
Sony digitally signs PS/2 Linux kernel for bootloader.
Problem solved.
Wasn't there a thing named IT in an episode of South Park? Mr. Garrison was pissed at airline companies and invented his own form of transportation involing a gyroscope and an anal probe.
*shrug*
I am going to strongly resist commenting about Win9x operating systems in reply to your comment about PCs crashing at random.
I agree competely with that - if people didn't learn how to use the technology to its fullest, by TAKING IT APART and messing with it, our computers would still suffer random hardware-related crashes.
Same with nearly everything. It's too bad that Congress is supported by the large corporations, and a DCMA case has never made it to the Supreme Court.