I believe I remember an article in an electronics/ham magazine at the time which described how to listen to the Apollo transmissions. Frequencies, polarization, power, and antenna descriptions. I don't know how many people listened then. But today there are people who listen to all sorts of odd satellite signals which are harder to receive than an hours-long signal from a slow-moving moon.
I think what is interesting is that the web provider chopped off the spammer's website although there was no anti-spam clause in the contract.
The website for Nexx Online does not show their contract. But from the FAQ, Nexx is not an ISP and only provides web hosting. There is no mention of spamming, probably because it's not easy to spam with the tools which they provide.
I think the spammer was spamming from ISPs, not from Nexx, and although spamming was not mentioned in the Nexx contract they cut off the spammer's response addresses.
Was it Excel which was found to be using undocumented MS OS features about 15 years ago?
It created a bit of a fuss that the application coders were taking advantage of secret OS capabilities...or maybe that MS OS coders were creating secret features to give the MS applications an advantage.
It's better than MS-Windows because whether to reboot is your decision rather than being forced to reboot. You're also not going to have to reload the operating system because for unknown reasons it just won't run anymore...
Yup. The best message to send about their English use would be new HTML for their pages. Use your Japanese reading skills to translate their other pages. Don't critize, just code.
Yes, the transfer rates have definitely increased. That's related to the increased data density, rotation speed, and faster electronics.
The head positioning times have not changed as much because it still takes time to move a physical head across the platters. However in the 1970's many hard drives used stepper motors while the top-of-the-line used voice coils, while now most hard drives use the faster voice coils.
The obvious question becomes how to alter head position time. All the disk drive engineers for 20 years have been working on this and I can't improve on their efforts.
There are some obvious possibilities for Optical or CD-ROM/RW/RW disks. Perhaps a laser can be scanned over a whole disk to read the data faster than with current designs (even if the laser has to be several feet from disk to be able to scan). Or several lasers on several heads (this is already being done, although I don't remember the CD drive using it).
Actually, head-per-track is an old design. A few disk drives have used it, but it was more popular in the 1970's in head-per-track drum storage. Just like a magnetic disk, but the magnetic media along the outside of a cylinder. But a drum tends to have a lot more inertia than a disk. And a six-foot spinning drum does some nasty things if it gets unbalanced...
Maybe some engineer will find an inexpensive way to put many heads over a platter.
And despite what you said, you would have to spin head-per-track. Maybe you're thinking of the obvious extension of head-per-bit, but without motion there is no signal for a magnetic change detector.
Well, my kids like the acrylic tube illuminated with a gas laser, but a real light saber can't be built with our current technologies. Others already gave physics and engineering reasons.
If we ever achieve something like a force field then a lightsaber or Niven's "variable sword" become more possible. But then there will be a lot of other gadgets too...
Anyone know the physics behind the teleportation experiments? Is only a photon state being teleported, or could the "strong force" be teleported without an atom?
Fortunately, there's still an awful lot of wasted space in most computers. If they reach these limits using current technology and can't use a different technology, there's a lot more packaging improvement available.
Even without parallel processing, more memory and more logic can create more power. I'm assuming more transistors equate to more computing power either through parallel processing ( MOSIX, Beowulf ), larger caches, or more CISC-like design (multiple arithmetic units, more instruction decoders, alterable instructions...). In the 1970's I used a CDC Cyber with 2 CPUs and 14 helper processors; there's a lot more that can still be done with existing tech.
Existing chip packages are large. They could be made smaller.
Or make your computer the size of a building and tuck it into a warp bubble, so it can be small to our perception...although I don't know if inertia would let you put a handle on it and move it easily...
They've already switched to Google. Go to Netscape and notice their Search box at the top says NEW.
If you do a search using the Netscape option, the URL of the search engine appears as google.netscape.com. So apparently Google has already been installed, not merely announced.
ThoughtTreasure understands questions and gives answers. Uses assortment of methods to analyze text, understand problem, apply common sense, and find answer to problem.
Knowledge Server Toolkit is a Perl-based system for monitoring and acting on continuous information flows, such as alerting when telemetry indicates unusual conditions.
SKU: Stock Keeping Unit It is a code number for one thing which is sold. Blue sneakers, can of tuna, 6-pack of Coke, each probably has its own SKU. And a single can of Coke may have a different SKU than a 6-pack or a 6-pack might be sold as six cans.
Stores often use SKUs but don't bother making them visible to the consumer...except when you see them looking up a number for Cauliflower in a book over the register.
Good, so they don't have to waste money reviewing the components of every pencil and ceiling tile they sell. I can review them myself. And maybe I need rainforest hardwoods for my Weeping Wrested Warbler zoological garden...
The article referred to hiring Linux techies as an expense. As if the company doesn't already have to spend money on Microsoft techies. With fewer MS machines it will be able to cut back on MS expenses. And I'm sure the store employees will be happy with the cut back in crashes.
Notice the article mentions that users will be able to cause an action to happen, such as subscribing to an ISP.
Whether the BIOS icons are present only at initial boot or on OS desktop, obviously the Tux icon should boot into Linux or provide access to Linux (order CD? FTP installation file?).
I thought this sounded familiar. One source is the/. article on May 15: Task Processor Found In Human Brain Slashdot needs more filters on submitted articles, to point out to editors more about past articles.
As a follow-up to my AC post above, I quote from Russell's book, "Artificial Intelligence, a Modern Approach."
A crude comparison of the raw computational resources available to computers (circa 1994) and brains:
The number of hard disk storage bits may be approaching the number of neurons and connections in the human brain, but one bit on a disk has less information than one neuron or synapse. The disk would need at least one link per item, and in many cases multiple links per item. Obviously many bits will be needed to store links per item.
There is a consciousness register set, where you remember things like the phone number you're about to dial. Capacity of 7 items plus or minus 2.
There is a short-term memory of your entire current awareness. The registers often are used to point at these things, whether they be the red car you're avoiding, the smell of that pie you just noticed, or the part of the network topology which you're designing. These are augmented by various short-term memories for particular senses (the guy on the walkie-talkie just said your name, and you can recall several seconds of sound before that even though you weren't paying attention due to the auditory system memory).
There is a long-term memory which is updated after going through various filters. Emotions tend to increase the chances of a memory being stored permanently. Severe trauma blocks storage of memories (severe accident victims can recall details on the scene, but not after rest).
Some memory processing seems to be done during sleep, but the major reason for sleep is to recharge the energy-storing glial cells because vertebrate brains use more energy than the bloodstream can supply (otherwise there would be mammals which never sleep due to the evolutionary advantage that would provide).
I use a mouse to shutdown/reboot my headless/handless servers. Look at the man page for gpm and/etc/*gpm* for the configuration to execute a few commands with the proper mouse clicks.
I find it useful to configure the mouse for shutdown and restart so an operator can have some control over the servers...at least to be able to cleanly shut the things off.
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Gee, that sounds like a dangerous web page.
I hope you explained to your guinea pig why you are exercising its irises. Or do you want us to train him to startle at bright light?
I believe I remember an article in an electronics/ham magazine at the time which described how to listen to the Apollo transmissions. Frequencies, polarization, power, and antenna descriptions. I don't know how many people listened then. But today there are people who listen to all sorts of odd satellite signals which are harder to receive than an hours-long signal from a slow-moving moon.
The website for Nexx Online does not show their contract. But from the FAQ, Nexx is not an ISP and only provides web hosting. There is no mention of spamming, probably because it's not easy to spam with the tools which they provide.
I think the spammer was spamming from ISPs, not from Nexx, and although spamming was not mentioned in the Nexx contract they cut off the spammer's response addresses.
So the significance of the ruling is actually that the Netiquette common sense was added to the contract. I think it is right, and wonder if "The Tragedy of the Commons" (game theory analysis, electronic commons) has been recognized by English law.
It created a bit of a fuss that the application coders were taking advantage of secret OS capabilities...or maybe that MS OS coders were creating secret features to give the MS applications an advantage.
It's better than MS-Windows because whether to reboot is your decision rather than being forced to reboot. You're also not going to have to reload the operating system because for unknown reasons it just won't run anymore...
Yup. The best message to send about their English use would be new HTML for their pages. Use your Japanese reading skills to translate their other pages. Don't critize, just code.
Toshiba spec sheets are here.
Select your model then look at the spec sheet. Chip types and other useful information.
The head positioning times have not changed as much because it still takes time to move a physical head across the platters. However in the 1970's many hard drives used stepper motors while the top-of-the-line used voice coils, while now most hard drives use the faster voice coils.
The obvious question becomes how to alter head position time. All the disk drive engineers for 20 years have been working on this and I can't improve on their efforts.
There are some obvious possibilities for Optical or CD-ROM/RW/RW disks. Perhaps a laser can be scanned over a whole disk to read the data faster than with current designs (even if the laser has to be several feet from disk to be able to scan). Or several lasers on several heads (this is already being done, although I don't remember the CD drive using it).
Or image the entire CD or DVD without focusing, but the compute power required for this will require extremely fast device interface hardware.
Maybe some engineer will find an inexpensive way to put many heads over a platter.
And despite what you said, you would have to spin head-per-track. Maybe you're thinking of the obvious extension of head-per-bit, but without motion there is no signal for a magnetic change detector.
If we ever achieve something like a force field then a lightsaber or Niven's "variable sword" become more possible. But then there will be a lot of other gadgets too...
Anyone know the physics behind the teleportation experiments? Is only a photon state being teleported, or could the "strong force" be teleported without an atom?
I did a Netscape search for my last name and the only results were two "reviewed Web pages" from the Netscape indexes.
I did a Netscape search for my last name and some other words and it performed a Google search with many more, although less focused, results.
Looks like there's more to the Netscape search algorithm than only the Google tools.
Go to Netscape and notice their Search box at the top says NEW.
If you do a search using the Netscape option, the URL of the search engine appears as google.netscape.com. So apparently Google has already been installed, not merely announced.
ThoughtTreasure understands questions and gives answers. Uses assortment of methods to analyze text, understand problem, apply common sense, and find answer to problem.
CLIPS rule and object expert system tool.
Knowledge Server Toolkit is a Perl-based system for monitoring and acting on continuous information flows, such as alerting when telemetry indicates unusual conditions.
It is a code number for one thing which is sold.
Blue sneakers, can of tuna, 6-pack of Coke, each probably has its own SKU. And a single can of Coke may have a different SKU than a 6-pack or a 6-pack might be sold as six cans.
Stores often use SKUs but don't bother making them visible to the consumer...except when you see them looking up a number for Cauliflower in a book over the register.
Obviously, it should have an interface to Everything
Good, so they don't have to waste money reviewing the components of every pencil and ceiling tile they sell. I can review them myself. And maybe I need rainforest hardwoods for my Weeping Wrested Warbler zoological garden...
The article referred to hiring Linux techies as an expense. As if the company doesn't already have to spend money on Microsoft techies. With fewer MS machines it will be able to cut back on MS expenses. And I'm sure the store employees will be happy with the cut back in crashes.
Depends whether or not the car is like Bill Elliott's Ford.
Whether the BIOS icons are present only at initial boot or on OS desktop, obviously the Tux icon should boot into Linux or provide access to Linux (order CD? FTP installation file?).
Slashdot needs more filters on submitted articles, to point out to editors more about past articles.
The number of hard disk storage bits may be approaching the number of neurons and connections in the human brain, but one bit on a disk has less information than one neuron or synapse. The disk would need at least one link per item, and in many cases multiple links per item. Obviously many bits will be needed to store links per item.
There is a short-term memory of your entire current awareness. The registers often are used to point at these things, whether they be the red car you're avoiding, the smell of that pie you just noticed, or the part of the network topology which you're designing. These are augmented by various short-term memories for particular senses (the guy on the walkie-talkie just said your name, and you can recall several seconds of sound before that even though you weren't paying attention due to the auditory system memory).
There is a long-term memory which is updated after going through various filters. Emotions tend to increase the chances of a memory being stored permanently. Severe trauma blocks storage of memories (severe accident victims can recall details on the scene, but not after rest).
Some memory processing seems to be done during sleep, but the major reason for sleep is to recharge the energy-storing glial cells because vertebrate brains use more energy than the bloodstream can supply (otherwise there would be mammals which never sleep due to the evolutionary advantage that would provide).
Install the ADS Cadet ISA card, compile the Linux device driver (standard in 2.2.8 kernel). AM/FM with RDS (I think RDS on FM only).
I find it useful to configure the mouse for shutdown and restart so an operator can have some control over the servers...at least to be able to cleanly shut the things off.