It's been a few years since I've watched Firefox, but IIRC it was the weapon systems that were thought controlled. And it required him to think in Russian, so I don't think that muscle sense was part of it.
Except that FreeDB accepts user submissions. How can it be assured that Gracenote hasn't intentionally poisoned FreeDB's database with such signature data?
Airbus, while showing off one of the first A320 aircraft at the Paris Airshow (I don't remember what year) suffered a fatal software error in it's fly-by wire system. The pilot was doing a low, slow pass at an altitude 50-100 FtAGL down the runway. The flight control software mistook this for a landing and refused to let the engines throttle back up. The plane plowed into a heavily wooded area near the end of the runway.
If you watch TLC or Discovery channel long enough you will see the footage of the crash. They've been using it in a commercial for the last few weeks.
Of course, this whole thing prompted the (poor) joke: Q: What's the difference between an Airbus and a chainsaw? A:10,000 trees per minute
Actually, I get 10=9 not 9=10. And, by my quick analysis that is in fact the correct answer. Here's why: when the the constant expression is evaluated by the compiler, it can do a couple of tricks to come up with the "correct" answer of 10 (eq. rounding and infinte precision math (like "bc") come to mind). But the variable expression must be evaluated with floating point math, and that's where your difficulty is. 0.3 and 0.7 cannot be accurately represented in the IEEE floating point format. so the equation actually results in 2.99999999... + 6.999999999.... = 9.99999999... . In order to get an answer of 10, the other platforms you tried either (a) use a non-IEEE-standard floating point format. or (b) rounded instead of truncated when casting to an int (which I believe is nat ANSI standard C compliant behaviour).
I think you both need your eyes checked:). The numbers on the keypads do line up. That is, the numbers line up but they are shifted left on the button. And, in the unfolded phone, the black buttons are just the bottom layer. The black-on-white numbers are on the unfolded part, in the panel above the guy's thumb.
I beleive that is old information. While it is true that ReiserFS didn't start life as a journaled FS, it has evolved into one. AFAIK it has been at least meta-data journaled since verision 3.0 circa early 2000.
No, it's not due to privatization. It's due to half-assed privatization. There is a big difference. The media bandies about the word "deregulation" when in fact the power industry is anything but deregulated. Power companies can only buy and sell power one day ahead of time. All power is sold through a common exchange where every transaction occurs at the price of the last and highest bid. The energy exchange is rigged because the price of power generation is free to float up ro down but the price to the end user is fixed by law. (Okay, the power compaines agreed to that one, but government nerver should have proposed it. Never. Now the two biggest power companies here are bleeding cash faster than a dotcom could ever hope to.) Power companies have sever restrictions on how much generation capacity they can own. Power plants built to serve specific industries cannot sell any significant amount of their excess power to the general grid.
I don't know what planet you live on, but here on earth that is not deregulation or privatization.
Just a thought, but the drive firmware could easily hide the whole base2 to base3 conversion and make the drive look like an otherwise normal CDRW with 3 times as many blocks.
Hmm. I thought I covered that when I said "simultaneously." The term "channels" usually refers to the number of code generator/correlator pairs the receiver has and thus represents the maxinum number of SVs that can be tracked or searched for at one time. But yes, it's easy and quite common to have one channel bouncing between all of the visible SVs.
Actually, when I still worked at a major GPS manufacturer, there was a lot of evidence both simulated and theoretical that showed that with the advances in frequency standards and digital filtering that C/A code was only slightly less accurate than P code. What P code really bought you was 2 frequencies which let you do direct measurment of ionospheric interference. The ionosphere acts like a speedbump to the GPS signal, delaying it by a tiny fraction of a second depending on how charged up it is at the time. Single channel GPSs use a mathematical model to predict isosphere conditions. Dual channel receivers can measure this directly because the two bands are effected differently - like light through a prism. Unfortunately, they only put C/A code on one frequency so outside of the military we're stuck with one frequency. It turns out that after satellite geometry and SA, the ionosphere is the next biggest source of error. When we turned off SA and the ionosphere errors in a simulator, the C/A-only fixes were within centimeters of the P-code fixes.
I just realized that I used channel and freqency in an sloppy manner and I'm too lazy to got back and correct it all. GPS has two frequencies, called L1 and L2 they are at approx 1.2 and 1.5GHz and all the satellites broadcast on those two frequencies. Many receivers will say they have 5 or 12 channels - what they mean is that they can track 5 or 12 satellites simultaneously.
They'll get my DSL connection when they pry it from my cold, dead heads.
I have nothing but positive experiences with my DSL connection. I can't sat it any more simply than that.
The secret to DSL is picking the right ISP. With DSL, at least in most areas, you get to pick your ISP - you aren't just stuck with using the megalopoly that owns the wires. So, I shopped around for an ISP wirh an acceptable use policy that was acceptable to me. I found a local ISP whose AUP was basically "1) Don't hack our systems. 2) Our job is to provide a reliable IP connection. Obey rule #1 and we don't care what you do with it."
If I ever have to move out of the area, I will miss my DSL connection the most.
Just a couple of points. You were using multicasting, not MBONE - there's a difference, one is a protocol, the other is a network established to test large scale multicasting.
And secondly, Ghost killed your network because your switch is dumb, misconfigured or both. In order for multicasting to work well on a switched network, the switch has to listen in on the multicast (usually referred to as IGMP snooping) to determine which ports are part of the multicast. If your switch is unable to do this, whether due to design deficiency or misconfiguration, the multicast session devolves into a bandwidth sucking broadcast storm.
Personally, I want to see them use syslog-ng in place of the old syslog, and postfix instead of sendmail (with sendmail being an optional install if you really it.
Lo and behold, there are claims that the default installs will be "more
secure for cable and ADSL users" - does this mean no more apache, login, shell, nfs, etc. by default?
FWIW, since Red Hat 6.2, if you do a "workstation" install, there is very little listening to the network. It doesn't even install inetd. The only thing that I found inapproprately running was identd as a stand-alone server, a service that I am morally opposed to. After disabling that, it's pretty tight.
Just a thought, perhaps you're confusing that article with a SciFi book. The novel
Earth, By David Brin describes exactly the scenario you're talking about.
Apologies for the Amazon link, but Fatbrain doesn't have a plot summary or review of this book yet
Wait till the IOC hears about this one
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So, how long before the IOC sues them for daring to register a domain with the word 'olympics' in it without payaing the proper bribe?
Oh, yeah, whoever though that black text on a dark blue background was a good idea needs to be shot, raised from the dead, and shot again - because obviously once isn't enough.
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It's been a few years since I've watched Firefox, but IIRC it was the weapon systems that were thought controlled. And it required him to think in Russian, so I don't think that muscle sense was part of it.
How about an M. C. Escher renderer?
Except that FreeDB accepts user submissions. How can it be assured that Gracenote hasn't intentionally poisoned FreeDB's database with such signature data?
If Dell eus this recall like they did the previous battery recall, it will work like this:
It worked out pretty well then.
That's not unique to SGI. Any qualtity hardware RAID controller has an onboard battery backup. Even the ones meant for PeeCees.
In Red Hat 7.0 and 7.1, you can manage xinetd (they don't use the old inetd anymore) with chkconfig. Dunno about ntsysv.
Airbus, while showing off one of the first A320 aircraft at the Paris Airshow (I don't remember what year) suffered a fatal software error in it's fly-by wire system. The pilot was doing a low, slow pass at an altitude 50-100 FtAGL down the runway. The flight control software mistook this for a landing and refused to let the engines throttle back up. The plane plowed into a heavily wooded area near the end of the runway.
If you watch TLC or Discovery channel long enough you will see the footage of the crash. They've been using it in a commercial for the last few weeks.
Of course, this whole thing prompted the (poor) joke: Q: What's the difference between an Airbus and a chainsaw? A:10,000 trees per minute
Actually, I get 10=9 not 9=10. And, by my quick analysis that is in fact the correct answer. Here's why: when the the constant expression is evaluated by the compiler, it can do a couple of tricks to come up with the "correct" answer of 10 (eq. rounding and infinte precision math (like "bc") come to mind). But the variable expression must be evaluated with floating point math, and that's where your difficulty is. 0.3 and 0.7 cannot be accurately represented in the IEEE floating point format. so the equation actually results in 2.99999999... + 6.999999999.... = 9.99999999... . In order to get an answer of 10, the other platforms you tried either (a) use a non-IEEE-standard floating point format. or (b) rounded instead of truncated when casting to an int (which I believe is nat ANSI standard C compliant behaviour).
I think you both need your eyes checked :). The numbers on the keypads do line up. That is, the numbers line up but they are shifted left on the button. And, in the unfolded phone, the black buttons are just the bottom layer. The black-on-white numbers are on the unfolded part, in the panel above the guy's thumb.
I'll bet that part of the deal is that they have to change their name to Dubyaclick.
Here is a rebuttal to this story from the Lawrence Berkeley Labs. They contend that nationally, computers use less than 2% of the power.
I beleive that is old information. While it is true that ReiserFS didn't start life as a journaled FS, it has evolved into one. AFAIK it has been at least meta-data journaled since verision 3.0 circa early 2000.
Or at least the dreaded Post-Before-Reading Syndrome. Quoting the very last line of the article:
No, it's not due to privatization. It's due to half-assed privatization. There is a big difference. The media bandies about the word "deregulation" when in fact the power industry is anything but deregulated. Power companies can only buy and sell power one day ahead of time. All power is sold through a common exchange where every transaction occurs at the price of the last and highest bid. The energy exchange is rigged because the price of power generation is free to float up ro down but the price to the end user is fixed by law. (Okay, the power compaines agreed to that one, but government nerver should have proposed it. Never. Now the two biggest power companies here are bleeding cash faster than a dotcom could ever hope to.) Power companies have sever restrictions on how much generation capacity they can own. Power plants built to serve specific industries cannot sell any significant amount of their excess power to the general grid.
I don't know what planet you live on, but here on earth that is not deregulation or privatization.
And on further inspection, it's not even base3, it's just three bits for each single bit on an ordinary drive. That's trivial to handle.
Just a thought, but the drive firmware could easily hide the whole base2 to base3 conversion and make the drive look like an otherwise normal CDRW with 3 times as many blocks.
Hmm. I thought I covered that when I said "simultaneously." The term "channels" usually refers to the number of code generator/correlator pairs the receiver has and thus represents the maxinum number of SVs that can be tracked or searched for at one time. But yes, it's easy and quite common to have one channel bouncing between all of the visible SVs.
Actually, when I still worked at a major GPS manufacturer, there was a lot of evidence both simulated and theoretical that showed that with the advances in frequency standards and digital filtering that C/A code was only slightly less accurate than P code. What P code really bought you was 2 frequencies which let you do direct measurment of ionospheric interference. The ionosphere acts like a speedbump to the GPS signal, delaying it by a tiny fraction of a second depending on how charged up it is at the time. Single channel GPSs use a mathematical model to predict isosphere conditions. Dual channel receivers can measure this directly because the two bands are effected differently - like light through a prism. Unfortunately, they only put C/A code on one frequency so outside of the military we're stuck with one frequency. It turns out that after satellite geometry and SA, the ionosphere is the next biggest source of error. When we turned off SA and the ionosphere errors in a simulator, the C/A-only fixes were within centimeters of the P-code fixes.
I just realized that I used channel and freqency in an sloppy manner and I'm too lazy to got back and correct it all. GPS has two frequencies, called L1 and L2 they are at approx 1.2 and 1.5GHz and all the satellites broadcast on those two frequencies. Many receivers will say they have 5 or 12 channels - what they mean is that they can track 5 or 12 satellites simultaneously.
What's really ironic is that the first GPS satellites and receivers were built by "Rockwell" - Rockwell International to be precise.
They'll get my DSL connection when they pry it from my cold, dead heads.
I have nothing but positive experiences with my DSL connection. I can't sat it any more simply than that.
The secret to DSL is picking the right ISP. With DSL, at least in most areas, you get to pick your ISP - you aren't just stuck with using the megalopoly that owns the wires. So, I shopped around for an ISP wirh an acceptable use policy that was acceptable to me. I found a local ISP whose AUP was basically "1) Don't hack our systems. 2) Our job is to provide a reliable IP connection. Obey rule #1 and we don't care what you do with it."
If I ever have to move out of the area, I will miss my DSL connection the most.
Just a couple of points. You were using multicasting, not MBONE - there's a difference, one is a protocol, the other is a network established to test large scale multicasting.
And secondly, Ghost killed your network because your switch is dumb, misconfigured or both. In order for multicasting to work well on a switched network, the switch has to listen in on the multicast (usually referred to as IGMP snooping) to determine which ports are part of the multicast. If your switch is unable to do this, whether due to design deficiency or misconfiguration, the multicast session devolves into a bandwidth sucking broadcast storm.
Personally, I want to see them use syslog-ng in place of the old syslog, and postfix instead of sendmail (with sendmail being an optional install if you really it.
FWIW, since Red Hat 6.2, if you do a "workstation" install, there is very little listening to the network. It doesn't even install inetd. The only thing that I found inapproprately running was identd as a stand-alone server, a service that I am morally opposed to. After disabling that, it's pretty tight.
Just a thought, perhaps you're confusing that article with a SciFi book. The novel Earth , By David Brin describes exactly the scenario you're talking about.
Apologies for the Amazon link, but Fatbrain doesn't have a plot summary or review of this book yet
So, how long before the IOC sues them for daring to register a domain with the word 'olympics' in it without payaing the proper bribe?
Oh, yeah, whoever though that black text on a dark blue background was a good idea needs to be shot, raised from the dead, and shot again - because obviously once isn't enough.