Well, since teen is a variation of ten, you'd pronounce "10" as "twon" (remember there is no ten digit in base ten, so it shouldn't be weird that there is no two digit in binary). "11" is pronounced one-twon (reversed order, kinda like seven-teen is 17). "100" continues in a similar fashion.
I have to disagree - 6 pages to say "base 2 vs. base 10" and then completely miss the fraud question:
3.7 Was the consumer ever cheated as a result?... the comsumer always had all the capacity he was promised. Even if the drive capacity was reported as 115GB, the reality was that the drive was always storing all 123.5GB of (decimal based) capacity, as indicated by the drive manufacturer
So, he's saying that the drive manufacturers gave the higher number, so on one should feel cheated. I think that if they gave the lower number, then people would never feel cheated.
To answer your question... The old chkdisk program under msdos woud report bad sectors, and the operating system would handle it. But, with the advent of IDE drives and dsp microcontrollers on the drives, manufacturers have been doing the bad sector management automatically and the OS sees a "perfect" drive. If you see bad sectors, back up the drive right away. The drive has more resources to tell if a sector is going bad (perhaps signal to noise ratio or before-ECC error rate) than the IDE spec passes on, so it's in a better position to do the correction. If you look at some of the technical manuals, you'll find vendor-specific ways to access the extra data. On the IBM travelstar, this was a variable amount that was not guaranteed to be error-free.
I didn't notice them in Underworld, but then again, I didn't notice any light spots in which to place the dots either. The whole movie takes place at night.
But I'll look for the dots in the next movie I see. It's kindof like the "end-of-reel" mark that they put in the upper right hand corner... I never noticed it until knew about them, and then I always saw them. It's a mark to tell the projectionist to queue up the next reel... usually 5 seconds after the mark the scene will totally change (dark <-> light) and the sound will, too.
I'll guess that UofF requires all freshman to live on campus (that's a popular requirement at many colleges). Good luck getting a 3rd party DSL, satellite, or cable provider. And if their phones are in a digital system (as were the ones at my college), you can't dial out to an ISP.
The only alternatives would be cellular data or 802.11 pringle-link to a friend's house nearby.
It's a monopoly situation (just like the require on-campus food plan meshes nicely with the "no-stoves" policy) that you've got to make sure isn't being abused. Dammit, I would want my bit torrent copy of Red Hat 10!
Nope. I bought some stuff like this at a magic store for practical jokes. A small packet in someone's drink will turn it to slurpee-consitancy. I'd guess a tablespoon would do a gallon, but I haven't tried that much - usually a teaspoon is plenty for a glass.
When it absorbs, the particles greatly increase in size, like a virgin sponge. The result will be the same volume as a gallon of water, but it will be jell-ified.
(tin foil hat on) Just because they suggest it doesn't mean it'll be free. In fact, this draft could be seen as a way to generate revenue when relatively few people use the DDS on the internet now (AFAIK - for example, most bookstores use the ISBN).
I find it interesting that the TV show producers decided to deal with "living with AIDS", but very little with the perhaps more important topic of "AIDS prevention". Although prevention would be hard to discuss with the intended age group, the total lack of the two biggest transmission methods in the Seasame Street universe could lead to misinformation and rumors -- exactly the type of rumors that I'm sure the producers wanted to dispell.
There is a humor aspect (check my journal entry) that I found healthy when dealing with such a grim disease, but I intended to make fun only of muppets and not any suffering humans.
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Congress may have driven a stake through Total Information Awareness. But there are lots of other government data-mining programs -- eeriely similar to TIA -- that are still very much alive.
One TIA-like project is Novel Intelligence from Massive Data (NIMD), an initiative of the little-known Intelligence Community Advanced Research and Development Activity, notes secrecy guru Steven Aftergood, with the Federation of American Scientists.
"Pursued with a minimal public profile and lacking a polarizing figure like Adm. Poindexter to galvanize opposition, NIMD has proceeded quietly even as TIA imploded," Aftergood writes.
The NIMD effort aims to comb through "structured text in various formats, unstructured text, spoken text, audio, video, tables, graphs, diagrams, images, maps, equations, chemical formulas, etc." to help "intelligence analysts to spot the telltale signs of strategic surprise."
By now, we all know what that means. Posted by noahmax at September 26, 2003 02:03 PM
When Ren Ventures has to say...
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We believe the best investment opportunities for realizing outsized returns migrate from sector to sector over time: from buyout, to venture, to public markets, to conglomerates or pure plays within certain industry sectors, in public or private markets - in our view, in no particular order but contrary to the most recent, firmly established trend. We believe investors have a choice: either following the trend in hopes of jumping off early and profitably, or investing contrary to trend in search of outsized returns.
Renaissance subscribes to contrarian theory and believes the best opportunities now exist in microcap public companies that are orphaned from Wall Street with no institutional sponsorship. We will invest in mis-priced public securities and take an activist role in enhancing returns or sponsor management buyouts of undervalued public companies with high intrinsic value. Few investment groups are now equipped to source investment opportunities with enterprise values below $50 million, either due to their larger capital base or otherwise, which presents an opportunity for us. Aberrational pricing in the public markets often correlates with a despondent, disheartened and perhaps uninformed shareholder base, which helps reduce premiums paid while acquiring securities or entire companies.
If they were contrarian, I would think that they would be selling and go against the people who have bought the price up. But, they said they were looking for a whacked-out company, and they found one. Who knows.. they might buy out management and install some honest people.
But, they said it best.. SCO is at an aberrational price, but its abnormally high, not low. Hopefully they got in in January and aren't in it for the long term.
The calculator is slow to respond and update the screen, but it does have a wonderful type-ahead buffer. Once you're confident with the commands (takes time to memorize) and the buttons (their high quality makes it easier to trust), go ahead and type as fast as you want. The calculator will skip screen updates during this time, so you'll get the answer soon after you stop typing.
Once you know that secret, the speed isn't a problem (and I've got a 48S and a 48SX... that's a 1 MHz processor vs. the 2 MHz processor of the G's)
From the promo copy: This one is a trip back to the good old days, when music actually meant something and artists carried with them a lil' thing called soul.
The Morton Thiokol presentations regarding the O-rings were utter crap. Edward Tufte has an excellent deconstruction of their major slides, and shows how little information they contiained. He redrew the graphs, and showed that it was almost certain that the rings would fail at the Challenger's launch temperature.
The link I gave is just a summary & leaves out some parts - the original graph was organized by serial number, not launch temperature, and is filled with cutesy pictures of rockets (chartjunk in Tufte terminology). The new graph shows temperature vs. problems-found-on-recovered-orings. The Challengetr's launch temperature, 40 degrees F, is highlighted at the left of the graph, showing how different this one was versus all others.
The book has a much better presentation, and it's an excellent excellent book. This example is something that I think back to when I make any presentation... a good chart could have saved lives.
48k was popular early on (that's what my II+ had), but it got larger as time went on... the//c had 128k standard. Interestingly, Apples tended to use RAM disks rather than hard disks, so they averaged more RAM than other machines of the time.
ps. I've got an old eprom programmer with over $3000 worth of memory. I think it has three 4K boards, each with about a dozen chips on it. God, I love being a semi-old geek
Ah, vivid memories of the cover of Softtalk magazine, with a picture of the Apple II assembly line with hundreds of machines. Just imagine... 200 * 64k = 12.5 MEGABYTES! That would take 90 floppies to store all that data!
Now some statistic pr0n: There were about 5 1/2 million Apple IIs sold, so at an average of 64k each (just a guess), that would be 343 GB of memory total. Adding up the couple of computers in the office (it's a 4 person company), we're about 1/70 of the way there. Assuming 2 140K floppy drives per computer, that would be 1.5TB of disk storage -- that would be 6 hard drives, and they would occupy less space than a single pair of old floppy drives.
Ha ha! I just watched that movie and then heard the story on NPR, and didn't make the connection.
They said that the legs of the huge creature were built like the legs of other rodents - designed for burrowing, and not for running. They said that usually animals have one of two escape mechanisms - either burrow (like mice), or run (like most big creatures). They thought this guy would be evolutionary challenged because there aren't many holes big enough for a 6-foot rat to escape into. (lame richard gere jokes aside)
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Well, since teen is a variation of ten, you'd pronounce "10" as "twon" (remember there is no ten digit in base ten, so it shouldn't be weird that there is no two digit in binary). "11" is pronounced one-twon (reversed order, kinda like seven-teen is 17). "100" continues in a similar fashion.
I have to disagree - 6 pages to say "base 2 vs. base 10" and then completely miss the fraud question:
... the comsumer always had all the capacity he was promised. Even if the drive capacity was reported as 115GB, the reality was that the drive was always storing all 123.5GB of (decimal based) capacity, as indicated by the drive manufacturer
3.7 Was the consumer ever cheated as a result?
So, he's saying that the drive manufacturers gave the higher number, so on one should feel cheated. I think that if they gave the lower number, then people would never feel cheated.
To answer your question... The old chkdisk program under msdos woud report bad sectors, and the operating system would handle it. But, with the advent of IDE drives and dsp microcontrollers on the drives, manufacturers have been doing the bad sector management automatically and the OS sees a "perfect" drive. If you see bad sectors, back up the drive right away. The drive has more resources to tell if a sector is going bad (perhaps signal to noise ratio or before-ECC error rate) than the IDE spec passes on, so it's in a better position to do the correction. If you look at some of the technical manuals, you'll find vendor-specific ways to access the extra data. On the IBM travelstar, this was a variable amount that was not guaranteed to be error-free.
I was curious, but they're not coming anywhere near where I live: Durham/Research Triangle Park. They've covered LA and Dallas, but come on - they are nowhere near my other home town - Washington DC (often rated #3 in the nation)
I didn't notice them in Underworld, but then again, I didn't notice any light spots in which to place the dots either. The whole movie takes place at night.
... usually 5 seconds after the mark the scene will totally change (dark <-> light) and the sound will, too.
But I'll look for the dots in the next movie I see. It's kindof like the "end-of-reel" mark that they put in the upper right hand corner... I never noticed it until knew about them, and then I always saw them. It's a mark to tell the projectionist to queue up the next reel
I'll guess that UofF requires all freshman to live on campus (that's a popular requirement at many colleges). Good luck getting a 3rd party DSL, satellite, or cable provider. And if their phones are in a digital system (as were the ones at my college), you can't dial out to an ISP.
The only alternatives would be cellular data or 802.11 pringle-link to a friend's house nearby.
It's a monopoly situation (just like the require on-campus food plan meshes nicely with the "no-stoves" policy) that you've got to make sure isn't being abused. Dammit, I would want my bit torrent copy of Red Hat 10!
It's been around for years. You can buy one surplus for USD$20K. That's just the library and robot handling, not the tape drive.
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Nope. I bought some stuff like this at a magic store for practical jokes. A small packet in someone's drink will turn it to slurpee-consitancy. I'd guess a tablespoon would do a gallon, but I haven't tried that much - usually a teaspoon is plenty for a glass.
When it absorbs, the particles greatly increase in size, like a virgin sponge. The result will be the same volume as a gallon of water, but it will be jell-ified.
Sorry, didn't notice that. A pretty bad miss.
(tin foil hat on)
Just because they suggest it doesn't mean it'll be free. In fact, this draft could be seen as a way to generate revenue when relatively few people use the DDS on the internet now (AFAIK - for example, most bookstores use the ISBN).
Anther company tried to get their patents into an international standard, and then extract license fees from people who followed the standard.
(tin foil hat off)
But I hope OCLC and all future owners of the DDS have good ethics.
I find it interesting that the TV show producers decided to deal with "living with AIDS", but very little with the perhaps more important topic of "AIDS prevention". Although prevention would be hard to discuss with the intended age group, the total lack of the two biggest transmission methods in the Seasame Street universe could lead to misinformation and rumors -- exactly the type of rumors that I'm sure the producers wanted to dispell.
There is a humor aspect (check my journal entry) that I found healthy when dealing with such a grim disease, but I intended to make fun only of muppets and not any suffering humans.
You're the first to comment on my sig. Thanks.
The Dewey Decimal System is a highly protected trademark of Online Computer Library Center -- use it without paying a license fee, and they'll sue you (another story)
From their FAQ: May I use the DDC to organize information on my Web site?
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SysRq was the original interrupt-generating special keystroke. It doesn't get much use anymore, though.
You wouldn't even have to own it to use it - just 0wn it.
While Groklaw has been slashdotted...
From their "about us" page: (emphasis mine)
We believe the best investment opportunities for realizing outsized returns migrate from sector to sector over time: from buyout, to venture, to public markets, to conglomerates or pure plays within certain industry sectors, in public or private markets - in our view, in no particular order but contrary to the most recent, firmly established trend. We believe investors have a choice: either following the trend in hopes of jumping off early and profitably, or investing contrary to trend in search of outsized returns.
Renaissance subscribes to contrarian theory and believes the best opportunities now exist in microcap public companies that are orphaned from Wall Street with no institutional sponsorship. We will invest in mis-priced public securities and take an activist role in enhancing returns or sponsor management buyouts of undervalued public companies with high intrinsic value. Few investment groups are now equipped to source investment opportunities with enterprise values below $50 million, either due to their larger capital base or otherwise, which presents an opportunity for us. Aberrational pricing in the public markets often correlates with a despondent, disheartened and perhaps uninformed shareholder base, which helps reduce premiums paid while acquiring securities or entire companies.
If they were contrarian, I would think that they would be selling and go against the people who have bought the price up. But, they said they were looking for a whacked-out company, and they found one. Who knows.. they might buy out management and install some honest people.
But, they said it best.. SCO is at an aberrational price, but its abnormally high, not low. Hopefully they got in in January and aren't in it for the long term.
The calculator is slow to respond and update the screen, but it does have a wonderful type-ahead buffer. Once you're confident with the commands (takes time to memorize) and the buttons (their high quality makes it easier to trust), go ahead and type as fast as you want. The calculator will skip screen updates during this time, so you'll get the answer soon after you stop typing.
Once you know that secret, the speed isn't a problem (and I've got a 48S and a 48SX... that's a 1 MHz processor vs. the 2 MHz processor of the G's)
From the promo copy: This one is a trip back to the good old days, when music actually meant something and artists carried with them a lil' thing called soul.
The good old days I remember was when music meant something -- you'd "stay over at his house for days making tapes of his records and sleeping on the carpet" -- and listeners carried with them a lil' thing called the right to format shift.
Guess I won't be listening to him on my iPod. But, I will continue to listen to local artists.
Good catch. It isn't Tufte's web page, but Tog should have caught it, too. Tufte's book is coffeetable-sized, and it's all very big and very clear.
The Morton Thiokol presentations regarding the O-rings were utter crap. Edward Tufte has an excellent deconstruction of their major slides, and shows how little information they contiained. He redrew the graphs, and showed that it was almost certain that the rings would fail at the Challenger's launch temperature.
... a good chart could have saved lives.
The link I gave is just a summary & leaves out some parts - the original graph was organized by serial number, not launch temperature, and is filled with cutesy pictures of rockets (chartjunk in Tufte terminology). The new graph shows temperature vs. problems-found-on-recovered-orings. The Challengetr's launch temperature, 40 degrees F, is highlighted at the left of the graph, showing how different this one was versus all others.
The book has a much better presentation, and it's an excellent excellent book. This example is something that I think back to when I make any presentation
48k was popular early on (that's what my II+ had), but it got larger as time went on... the //c had 128k standard. Interestingly, Apples tended to use RAM disks rather than hard disks, so they averaged more RAM than other machines of the time.
ps. I've got an old eprom programmer with over $3000 worth of memory. I think it has three 4K boards, each with about a dozen chips on it. God, I love being a semi-old geek
Ah, vivid memories of the cover of Softtalk magazine, with a picture of the Apple II assembly line with hundreds of machines. Just imagine... 200 * 64k = 12.5 MEGABYTES! That would take 90 floppies to store all that data!
Now some statistic pr0n:
There were about 5 1/2 million Apple IIs sold, so at an average of 64k each (just a guess), that would be 343 GB of memory total. Adding up the couple of computers in the office (it's a 4 person company), we're about 1/70 of the way there. Assuming 2 140K floppy drives per computer, that would be 1.5TB of disk storage -- that would be 6 hard drives, and they would occupy less space than a single pair of old floppy drives.
It's rightside-up. The G5's drives are at the top of the case, ports at lower left. I'm curious why they don't face the computers.
If they see you using encryption, they may through him out just for that. I'd suggest discrection.
Ha ha! I just watched that movie and then heard the story on NPR, and didn't make the connection.
They said that the legs of the huge creature were built like the legs of other rodents - designed for burrowing, and not for running. They said that usually animals have one of two escape mechanisms - either burrow (like mice), or run (like most big creatures). They thought this guy would be evolutionary challenged because there aren't many holes big enough for a 6-foot rat to escape into. (lame richard gere jokes aside)
Thanks. I did some research: wiki entry picture.
I know just enough to be dangerous! I programmed the 6502 on the Apple II, so my knowledge of the C64 is limited.
It means that, in order to run at a decent speed, you have to overclock the C64's 6502 so much that it requires a water cooling setup.