"Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine airplane." By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule that simplicity increases robustness. It is correspondingly argued that the right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one basket, after making sure that you've built a really good basket. See also KISS Principle, elegant.
I think NASA knows how to build a damn good basket. Not that they always DO, but they CAN.
Anyway, it doesn't seem like they're rolling all the life support units into one, just moving them all into the same module. If anything I'd guess that would make maintenance and service a heck of a lot easier.
but to say that the only valid judge of constitutionality is the courts is not only wrong
Isn't the supreme arbiter (per Marbury v. Madison[?]) of the Constitution the Supreme Court? i.e. if your case is Constitutionally ambiguous, the appellate courts will send it up and up until it reaches Washington?
Some of them even have access to the same channel in actual HD and don't even know it.
A-fuckin-men brother. I live with the folks (caretaker for Mom) and while dad knows about ESPN, History and NatGeo HD, all the rest of them are totally foreign to him. Last time I was around on Sunday night he was watching the Simpsons on the SD Fox channel, when I switched to Fox HD he literally said "I didn't know regular TV was HD!". IMO if you have the HD box (at least with TimeWarner it's still a different option than the SD box) any channel with an HD equivalent should be blocked or mapped to HD or something.
We've had our very own high-quality mechanical keyboards for years now, and they even come with the Apple and volume/CD keys! My Matias Tactile Pro is going on four years old and nary a hiccup; my Apple-branded membranes were lucky to last four MONTHS.
Wal-Mart slave here (actually isn't so bad, but that's a different story..) - the in-store servers don't really do that much, mostly just handle the price lookups from the fresh department scales and registers...the really heavy "heart of everything" stuff, inventory control, scheduling, payroll, is still done via 3270 greenscreens, presumably to the monstrous data center they have down in Bentonville.
W-M's an incredibly networked company, all the hardware in each store is monitored at Central Maintenance; they call us from Ar-Kansas if our cooler door is open more than a half hour, if any of the in-store systems go down they handle it remotely, the climate control is run from down there based on the external environment hour-to-hour...it's pretty amazing actually.
The only high-end vendor I ever dealt with was SGI and we couldn't get part numbers ourselves, we had to get a tech rep to come out. Score 1 for Sun...like I said, I'm not saying I agree with that sort of behavior, but I can at least see where it's coming from.
Apple isn't really a "PC" manufacturer, they're more a "systems" company. Would you expect to be able to order a fan for an Ultra 45 or IntelliStation yourself?
Disclaimer, I have a dual G4, and generally like Apple. I agree though, their service system is a joke, they aren't IBM and they shouldn't try and act like IBM. I've fixed my computer myself more than once, actually one of my fans is a replacement that I just spliced the power connector to myself. As a sibling poster said, call an independent dealer, or go looking around online, the info's all there.
They did keep throttling up, but followed proper procedures by requesting clearance for a lower altitude. Then, "[a]"fter receiving no response, the pilots lowered the aircraft's wing slats to maintain their altitude and lower the plane's stall speed"...at way beyond the maximum speed for lowering the flaps. One ripped off with predictable results.
When I lived in CT I had a triband Motorola; at home I had a full six bars of analog coverage and it was amazing, the best quality of any phone I've ever used, corded, cordless, wireless, you name it.
But when I drove out to the styx and dropped to one or two bars of analog, oh lordy. It was TERRIBLE - constant static, deafening "power station" noises blasting at random, buzzing clicking popping whistling screeching, you name it. My current phone and location I have 0-1 bar depending on the weather and lunar alignment, it does drop every so often, and sometimes gets a little choppy, but other than that it's more than usable.
Like Mae West, when analog is good it's very good...and unlike her, when it's bad it's very bad;)
"Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine airplane." By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule that simplicity increases robustness. It is correspondingly argued that the right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one basket, after making sure that you've built a really good basket. See also KISS Principle, elegant.
I'd say that IBM knows how to build a pretty reliable basket..
We still have one hooked up in the garage, it's one of the original black ones from the 50s (the number label on the dial still has a word-number combo on it!)...still works like a charm. I swear you could club baby seals all winter with the handset and call just fine come spring:)
I test between 147 and 161 and I can't multitask for jack. Seriously, when I even start a conversation with somebody, I'm totally and utterly oblivious to EVERYTHING going on around me. But what I am concentrating on blows by like the wind - I used to get locked in the library because I'd miss the repeated announcements while buried in my PChem tests, but I'd get them done in a day and a half where everybody else needed the full week.
It's like a floodlight vs. a spotlight, both have their utilities.
Anybody know if there's a torrent (or for that matter any centralized way to download) of the 2007 collection? I'm finding it pretty likeable, but that jukebox is really NOT doing it for me...I'd much rather have them stored locally and use iTunes (or WMP or xmms, point being I want them on my drive).
Most "power" users I know can get about a day a gigabyte (RAM) out of Leopard. I get two to three days out of my old PowerMac with 1.75GB of RAM. A friend of mine has 3GB in a Mac Pro and he can get 3-4 days before a required reboot. My boss has 2GB in his iMac, and left it on during the holidays. He couldn't login to it to reboot when he got back after a week.
Uhhh...I have 1.5 gigs in an old MDD G4, I'm definitely a Power User, and my last reboot was only for the new QuickTime, after 21 days up I had ~750 megs completely unallocated (green in Activity Monitor) if I closed everything.
While I wholeheartedly think this is a TERRIBLE idea, aren't convictions a matter of public record already? Not that there's a handy-dandy easy-to-use website with all the information right there, but a trip to the courthouse or $40 paid to one of the online background check services can already get all the information... and not just for SA/DV, for everything down to speeding tickets..
"Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and on shopping carts, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree."
Seriously - it uses the same Alps mechanical keyswitches as the original Apple Extended Keyboard (I hear you can wash those in the dishwasher..). None of this mushy dome-switch crap, the keys snap down with authority and a crisp, loud, proper CLICK. Virtually identical to the old Model M (they use a buckling spring but the feel to me is the same). $150 but well worth it; I went through three Apple keyboards in two years and have had my TP for three, still as great as ever.
Capt. John Stapp withstood a 46.2G decceleration when his rocket sled going 632 mph plowed into a water brake. His eyeballs were completely filled with blood, but cleared overnight.
She can also run as fast as most nuclear boats for this time, so having a silent propeller is a major factor.
Err...quoth Wikipedia, "The AIP endurance of the 1,500 ton boats is around 14 days at five knots (9 km/h)"; the FAS Seawolf page reports a 20-knot silent speed, presumably with unlimited endurance.
New air-independent systems are definitely nifty and far more accessible, but still, nothing beats nuclear for subs.
Claude E. Shannon first used the word bit in a 1948 paper. He attributed its origin to John W. Tukey, who had written a Bell Labs memo in 9 January 1947 in which he contracted "binary digit" to simply "bit".
No mention of "bigit", seems to have just been invented today.
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http://xkcd.com/397/
I think NASA knows how to build a damn good basket. Not that they always DO, but they CAN.
Anyway, it doesn't seem like they're rolling all the life support units into one, just moving them all into the same module. If anything I'd guess that would make maintenance and service a heck of a lot easier.
http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/airplane-rule.html
but to say that the only valid judge of constitutionality is the courts is not only wrong
Isn't the supreme arbiter (per Marbury v. Madison[?]) of the Constitution the Supreme Court? i.e. if your case is Constitutionally ambiguous, the appellate courts will send it up and up until it reaches Washington?
Some of them even have access to the same channel in actual HD and don't even know it.
A-fuckin-men brother. I live with the folks (caretaker for Mom) and while dad knows about ESPN, History and NatGeo HD, all the rest of them are totally foreign to him. Last time I was around on Sunday night he was watching the Simpsons on the SD Fox channel, when I switched to Fox HD he literally said "I didn't know regular TV was HD!". IMO if you have the HD box (at least with TimeWarner it's still a different option than the SD box) any channel with an HD equivalent should be blocked or mapped to HD or something.
Drunken surfing...I totally missed the "This is an old revision of this page"..
How long has the table in the Wikipedia article had a "Murders your wife" column? I can't see that lasting too long..
Funny though :D
We've had our very own high-quality mechanical keyboards for years now, and they even come with the Apple and volume/CD keys! My Matias Tactile Pro is going on four years old and nary a hiccup; my Apple-branded membranes were lucky to last four MONTHS.
Wal-Mart slave here (actually isn't so bad, but that's a different story..) - the in-store servers don't really do that much, mostly just handle the price lookups from the fresh department scales and registers...the really heavy "heart of everything" stuff, inventory control, scheduling, payroll, is still done via 3270 greenscreens, presumably to the monstrous data center they have down in Bentonville.
W-M's an incredibly networked company, all the hardware in each store is monitored at Central Maintenance; they call us from Ar-Kansas if our cooler door is open more than a half hour, if any of the in-store systems go down they handle it remotely, the climate control is run from down there based on the external environment hour-to-hour...it's pretty amazing actually.
Not some fancy, expensive, uber-high-security bonded cleared and armored courier, either.
USPS Registered Mail.
If it's good enough for the government to send Secret-level classified information, it'll do just fine for a bunch of identities.
The only high-end vendor I ever dealt with was SGI and we couldn't get part numbers ourselves, we had to get a tech rep to come out. Score 1 for Sun...like I said, I'm not saying I agree with that sort of behavior, but I can at least see where it's coming from.
Apple isn't really a "PC" manufacturer, they're more a "systems" company. Would you expect to be able to order a fan for an Ultra 45 or IntelliStation yourself?
Disclaimer, I have a dual G4, and generally like Apple. I agree though, their service system is a joke, they aren't IBM and they shouldn't try and act like IBM. I've fixed my computer myself more than once, actually one of my fans is a replacement that I just spliced the power connector to myself. As a sibling poster said, call an independent dealer, or go looking around online, the info's all there.
They didn't CFIT at 1200kph.
They did keep throttling up, but followed proper procedures by requesting clearance for a lower altitude. Then, "[a]"fter receiving no response, the pilots lowered the aircraft's wing slats to maintain their altitude and lower the plane's stall speed"...at way beyond the maximum speed for lowering the flaps. One ripped off with predictable results.
Digital handles poor signal better.
;)
When I lived in CT I had a triband Motorola; at home I had a full six bars of analog coverage and it was amazing, the best quality of any phone I've ever used, corded, cordless, wireless, you name it.
But when I drove out to the styx and dropped to one or two bars of analog, oh lordy. It was TERRIBLE - constant static, deafening "power station" noises blasting at random, buzzing clicking popping whistling screeching, you name it. My current phone and location I have 0-1 bar depending on the weather and lunar alignment, it does drop every so often, and sometimes gets a little choppy, but other than that it's more than usable.
Like Mae West, when analog is good it's very good...and unlike her, when it's bad it's very bad
"Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine airplane." By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule that simplicity increases robustness. It is correspondingly argued that the right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one basket, after making sure that you've built a really good basket. See also KISS Principle, elegant.
I'd say that IBM knows how to build a pretty reliable basket..
http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/airplane-rule.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone
:)
We still have one hooked up in the garage, it's one of the original black ones from the 50s (the number label on the dial still has a word-number combo on it!)...still works like a charm. I swear you could club baby seals all winter with the handset and call just fine come spring
I test between 147 and 161 and I can't multitask for jack. Seriously, when I even start a conversation with somebody, I'm totally and utterly oblivious to EVERYTHING going on around me. But what I am concentrating on blows by like the wind - I used to get locked in the library because I'd miss the repeated announcements while buried in my PChem tests, but I'd get them done in a day and a half where everybody else needed the full week.
It's like a floodlight vs. a spotlight, both have their utilities.
Anybody know if there's a torrent (or for that matter any centralized way to download) of the 2007 collection? I'm finding it pretty likeable, but that jukebox is really NOT doing it for me...I'd much rather have them stored locally and use iTunes (or WMP or xmms, point being I want them on my drive).
Most "power" users I know can get about a day a gigabyte (RAM) out of Leopard. I get two to three days out of my old PowerMac with 1.75GB of RAM. A friend of mine has 3GB in a Mac Pro and he can get 3-4 days before a required reboot. My boss has 2GB in his iMac, and left it on during the holidays. He couldn't login to it to reboot when he got back after a week.
Uhhh...I have 1.5 gigs in an old MDD G4, I'm definitely a Power User, and my last reboot was only for the new QuickTime, after 21 days up I had ~750 megs completely unallocated (green in Activity Monitor) if I closed everything.
While I wholeheartedly think this is a TERRIBLE idea, aren't convictions a matter of public record already? Not that there's a handy-dandy easy-to-use website with all the information right there, but a trip to the courthouse or $40 paid to one of the online background check services can already get all the information... and not just for SA/DV, for everything down to speeding tickets..
Was a blern-hitting MACHINE!
"Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century?"
"Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and on shopping carts, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree."
Best. Keyboard. Ever.
Seriously - it uses the same Alps mechanical keyswitches as the original Apple Extended Keyboard (I hear you can wash those in the dishwasher..). None of this mushy dome-switch crap, the keys snap down with authority and a crisp, loud, proper CLICK. Virtually identical to the old Model M (they use a buckling spring but the feel to me is the same). $150 but well worth it; I went through three Apple keyboards in two years and have had my TP for three, still as great as ever.
Capt. John Stapp withstood a 46.2G decceleration when his rocket sled going 632 mph plowed into a water brake. His eyeballs were completely filled with blood, but cleared overnight.
They don't do it like they used to
She can also run as fast as most nuclear boats for this time, so having a silent propeller is a major factor.
Err...quoth Wikipedia, "The AIP endurance of the 1,500 ton boats is around 14 days at five knots (9 km/h)"; the FAS Seawolf page reports a 20-knot silent speed, presumably with unlimited endurance.
New air-independent systems are definitely nifty and far more accessible, but still, nothing beats nuclear for subs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_digit