Kind of like the lie that Germany is abandoning nuclear power. Germany is just outsourcing nuclear power too France. All the same risks but without any control over the safety requirements but the Greens believe it so all is good.
Kind of what I thought. If the QR code has a URL then it is not valid currency, end of statement. I find they very idea that anyone would just execute whatever was in the QR code as kind of dumb IMHO. What I do not get understand is how exactly are QR codes going to make counterfeiting harder since they are easy to reproduce.
You do know that laptops outsell desktops. As for real stuff if you mean work then boy are you wrong. For anything outside of the sciences, CAD, CAM, Video, and Audio production, these will work very well. For all the home users that run Quicken and go on the web to use Facebook and such then this will do very well for them. If these chips can get good enough performance on a 1080 monitor then they will be a giant boon for gaming. Most people use a single 1920x1080 monitor if this allows for a lot of games to look good enough then more games will sell. Of course just as today you will have the high end video cards for "enthisasts" and for those that need more graphical power but for many users this maybe good enough.
It boots into Linux and offers malware removal tools. Another option is to remove the drive from the machine and us an USB to SATA adaptor. Plug it into a good well protected working machine and use the anti-virus tools on your machine to scan and clean the attached drive. Since you do not boot from or run code from the drive your machine should be clean. Of course you could us a Windows VM running under Linux to clean the attached drive as well but I have never needed to go that far.
TRS programs are still just programs they do not effect the hardware. BTW TSR stand for Terminate and Stay Resident. They are a program the installs code intercepts and OS vector. TSR was a method to add multitasking like functions to DOS programs and have been replaced by Windows Services. One the first TSR programs was the DOS print spooler and the most famous is probably Sidekick. In other words your sire a snotty, arrogent, ignorant, idiot.
IBM gets the speed because cost is no option. Here is how they do it. 1. Low yield. These chips have a very large die size so the yield is going to be lower but the price is high so the trade off works. 2. Binning. The slower chips will go into the lower end machines that use the Z114. 3. Multi chip modules again to allow careful selection and improved yields. 4. Crazy levels of cooling. These have the very best cooling they can fit. 5. Professional operators, maintenance, and construction. The entire machine will be built like an expensive watch from the cooling to the memory system. The operators will follow all the procedures and if something is not perfect they will call IBM to send out a tech if the computer didn't do it. Other companies know how IBM does this they just do not have the resources in place to compete with IBM in this market. Instead they go for the easier lower hanging fruit. Too bad IBM blew it with the PC. If they had not been under extreme anti-trust pressure and had faith that PC where going to take off they could have used a 16 bit version of the System 360 ISA for the CPU maybe based on the 360/20 or maybe the 22.
1984 is bad but where there is life their is hope. Maybe in some small place in the world people are not so oppressed. And their is hope that change will come over time. On the beach is so bad because they all just give up. Why not build some massive shelters or take all that Uranium they had in Australia and move under water where at some chance of an eco system will survive? This just lets all die accept our fate is counter human nature and my human nature in particular. Life will find a way.
1. On the Beach all life killed by a nuclear war with the last people on earth just waiting for the radiation cloud to come and kill them or commiting suicide. No escape just a dead earth. 2. 1984. No hope you can not win, nobody can win, there is no hope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Cultural_impact 3. The The Forge of God. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forge_of_God Only a few humans are saved, the earth is turned to rubble.
No it is very expensive per launch. The idea was that the Shuttle would be a lot cheaper than it was. The other issues is that much like say a 747 or an A380 you better fill it up to fly it. The Saturn V is the cheapest way to put 100,000 KG into LEO. If you need to put 100,000 KG into LEO. If you only need to put 10,000 it sucks. And yes you could load it down with a huge number of say Comsats but the cost of a fail would be terrible. You could have 20 dead birds instead of one or two. The Falcon 9 is a much cheaper system for smaller loads but for big loads you need big rocket.
Wow at this point all I can say is just about everything you said is wrong. The AIM-120 the USs standard BVRM has about 100% kill ratio. If an air craft is in the no escape zone it is in the no escape zone. Visual ID is only required in peace time and in peace keeping operation. Let me explain to you how a no fly zone intercept would work. 1. AWACS detects an aircraft and IDs it using IFF and if no IFF then NCTR. 2. Fighters are vectored to intercept. 3. All friendly aircraft are accounted for and locations checked. If none are missing or out of contact then go for intercept. 4. A warning on over radio is issued to identify and or land. 5. Fighters close and one becomes the looker and one becomes shooter. 6. If the target turns on it's radar or ECM it is identified and shot down. 7. If NCTR has identified the target as hostile it is shot from optimum range. 8. If not identified then the looker will close to identify with optical sensors. Even the F-14 had a long range optical sensor that could ID targets at BVR. If Hostile the shooter takes the shot and the looker breaks. It is down to a science.
Actually not anymore. One of the reasons that the F-14 did so little in the Gulf Wars was that it lacked the modern radars that could do None Cooperative Target Identification. Modern radar can ID a target well past visual range. Your about 10 to 15 years out of date.
No it is like saying that X is the most cost-efficient semi-truck ever made and someone saying my Prius gets better mileage. That is all fine and good except that a Prius can not haul a 10,000 kg across country. The Falcon Heavy has not flown yet so it's dev costs are still unknown. It will probably be cheaper but it can not put 100,000kg in LEO. And yes modern design, testing, construction methods, and materials well means that a new F-1a should be better than even the F-1a that was tested in the late 60s. A new booster using them can also be cheaper and better than the Saturn V first stage. It is a real shame that F-1 and J-2 where allowed to become dead ends. An improved Saturn 1b using a single F-1a for it's first stage would have made a good heavy lift launcher with a larger payload than the Titan IIIC. The improved Saturn V could have been used to launch large parts for a larger space station than SkyLab and the improved Saturn 1b could have launched crews and supplies.
Exactly, the Olympics is a story about people achieving, the rover landing is about humanity achieving. Both are worthy to watching. I mean the Olympics is not like the Kardashians, WWE, or any of the other mindless drivel on TV. Not only that but they are not a case of one or the other. The landing will be at 1:31 am which is 5:31 am UTC so unless they the Olympics have events at 5 am you will not have to miss anything but some sleep. In other words STUPID WASTE OF TIME FOR A SLASHDOT STORY. Maybe it would be better to spend time watching the Olympics and the rover landing than posting or reading junk like this.
The Saturn V was the most cost efficient heavy lift launch vehicle to fly. The cost per lb to LEO is only $9,915 which is cheaper than the Atlas V or the Ariane V. The Falcon 9 does beat it but then you have the other metric. Saturn V 118,000 kg to LEO Falcon 9 10,450 kg to LEO Falcon Heavy 53,000 kg to LEO And that was with 1960s support systems. NASA was working on an improved Saturn 5 and tested F-1a engines that where ligher, had more thrust, and a higher specific impulse than the ones flown in the Saturn 5. Take the F-1a and add modern electronics for control and build the stage using modern methods and materials and you could drop the costs. What I fear is this is just a tactic to do nothing. If you keep studying the new launch system and changing it you will never have to build it. If you do not build it can never fail so you can never be blamed. As a politico it works well you can spend a ton of money doing studies to save money by finding a better way and when you have spent a lot you can kill the project because "they" have wasted all this money and have not built a thing.
Okay exactly how is not being able to pirate a video game going to limit users in other legal activities. The simple way to DRM this is a public private key encryption in which the game is tied to the device. Get a new device and add it to your account and you can download the software on your new device. As long as the developer can choose not to use that DRM and the apps that are DRMed are marked as such I have no problem with it. Let the market sort it out.
Well maybe but maybe competition will shift. I hear about how WalMart is destroying local grocery stores. Well here in South Florida it has pretty much taken out Winn Dixie. Of course Winn Dixie tired to be the price leader and let their stores get run down and there staffs shrank. So you had long lines, not the best shopping experience, and bad service. Publix which is listed as one of the 100 best companies in the US to work for seems to be doing very well. The staff is always friendly and helpful and you are almost always closer to your local Publix than WalMart Supercenter. In my town their are maybe two Walmart Super Centers and at least 6 Publix super markets. They are clean and the staff is friendly. When you ask where something is they will often walk you down to where it is. At one store I asked an employee where something was and they said that thought it was on some isle. Well I went to that isle and while I was looking the employee that I asked came up and said," I checked and I was wrong it is on this isle so and so." They then walked with me to the isle and pointed it out to me. So hopefully Amazon will create a bottom. Everyone else will have to rise above it to offer a value of service greater than Amazons.
I have a 7" tablet and yes it is a big enough improvement over a cell phone. A 7" tablet is about as small I want to watch movies and TV on. I can do on my phone but the tablet is much nicer. Also bigger device == bigger battery == longer runtime. I do not want run my phone to zero ever if for no other reason than safety. A second device means that I can keep by phone for communications and my tablet none essential uses. I also find the 7" more portable than a 10" and the lower cost makes it less risky to use. If a $199 device gets broken or stolen it is far less tragic than if a $499 device does. Heck at replace cost the Nexus 7 is cheaper than my smartphone. For example since the Nexus 7 has a GPS I am thinking about building a mount for my motorcycle for it. I could use it as a nav device as well as for music on long rides. Another option is a car mount. I have a Kindle fire right now and it works great as an e reader, media player , and for games.
Well lets look at what you said honestly. "RIM ignored the generic consumer in favor of selling their products in the business space. " Who else was buying smartphones? They where expensive and business had the money and the need for them. "Then Apple released the iPhone which was consumer focused," Because Apple couldn't compete with RIM in the Business space. It lacked security and features. The first rev of the iPhone even lacked apps which the Blackberry had. Apple built a very powerful hardware platform. Their bit of brilliance was that they noticed that you could build a device that you could put in your pocket and run on batteries that was actually more powerful than a VAX 11/780! They figured out you could run a UNIX on a phone aka they put on modified version of OS/X on a phone. Blackberry and frankly everyone else was stuck thinking that phones must use simple OSs and apps. Combine that with Apple getting the UI right which is something Apple is good at and you have the iPhone. Blackberry wasn't stupid. It was making money hand over fist. They saw a phone as a communication device and expanded it to handle email and messaging really well. It would run all day on a battery and worked well over slow connections. What Apple did was think of the smart phone as a computer that you could make calls on. It's battery life was good enough but not as good as the Blackberry and it and other smart phones like it drove the adoption of faster cellular technology.
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Kind of like the lie that Germany is abandoning nuclear power. Germany is just outsourcing nuclear power too France. All the same risks but without any control over the safety requirements but the Greens believe it so all is good.
Hello QA department your fired.
Kind of what I thought. If the QR code has a URL then it is not valid currency, end of statement. I find they very idea that anyone would just execute whatever was in the QR code as kind of dumb IMHO. What I do not get understand is how exactly are QR codes going to make counterfeiting harder since they are easy to reproduce.
You do know that laptops outsell desktops. As for real stuff if you mean work then boy are you wrong. For anything outside of the sciences, CAD, CAM, Video, and Audio production, these will work very well. For all the home users that run Quicken and go on the web to use Facebook and such then this will do very well for them.
If these chips can get good enough performance on a 1080 monitor then they will be a giant boon for gaming. Most people use a single 1920x1080 monitor if this allows for a lot of games to look good enough then more games will sell. Of course just as today you will have the high end video cards for "enthisasts" and for those that need more graphical power but for many users this maybe good enough.
Because the pilot is also the guide and people may want to talk to one another.
That is what the intercom system does.
Or the effect is not on the actual decay but on the detectors. Interesting but a lot more study is going to be need before an new interaction proven.
I removed this same malware using this disk http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk
It boots into Linux and offers malware removal tools. Another option is to remove the drive from the machine and us an USB to SATA adaptor. Plug it into a good well protected working machine and use the anti-virus tools on your machine to scan and clean the attached drive. Since you do not boot from or run code from the drive your machine should be clean. Of course you could us a Windows VM running under Linux to clean the attached drive as well but I have never needed to go that far.
TRS programs are still just programs they do not effect the hardware.
BTW TSR stand for Terminate and Stay Resident. They are a program the installs code intercepts and OS vector. TSR was a method to add multitasking like functions to DOS programs and have been replaced by Windows Services. One the first TSR programs was the DOS print spooler and the most famous is probably Sidekick.
In other words your sire a snotty, arrogent, ignorant, idiot.
IBM gets the speed because cost is no option. Here is how they do it.
1. Low yield. These chips have a very large die size so the yield is going to be lower but the price is high so the trade off works.
2. Binning. The slower chips will go into the lower end machines that use the Z114.
3. Multi chip modules again to allow careful selection and improved yields.
4. Crazy levels of cooling. These have the very best cooling they can fit.
5. Professional operators, maintenance, and construction. The entire machine will be built like an expensive watch from the cooling to the memory system. The operators will follow all the procedures and if something is not perfect they will call IBM to send out a tech if the computer didn't do it.
Other companies know how IBM does this they just do not have the resources in place to compete with IBM in this market. Instead they go for the easier lower hanging fruit.
Too bad IBM blew it with the PC. If they had not been under extreme anti-trust pressure and had faith that PC where going to take off they could have used a 16 bit version of the System 360 ISA for the CPU maybe based on the 360/20 or maybe the 22.
1984 is bad but where there is life their is hope. Maybe in some small place in the world people are not so oppressed. And their is hope that change will come over time.
On the beach is so bad because they all just give up. Why not build some massive shelters or take all that Uranium they had in Australia and move under water where at some chance of an eco system will survive? This just lets all die accept our fate is counter human nature and my human nature in particular. Life will find a way.
1. On the Beach all life killed by a nuclear war with the last people on earth just waiting for the radiation cloud to come and kill them or commiting suicide. No escape just a dead earth.
2. 1984. No hope you can not win, nobody can win, there is no hope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Cultural_impact
3. The The Forge of God. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forge_of_God Only a few humans are saved, the earth is turned to rubble.
No it is very expensive per launch. The idea was that the Shuttle would be a lot cheaper than it was. The other issues is that much like say a 747 or an A380 you better fill it up to fly it. The Saturn V is the cheapest way to put 100,000 KG into LEO. If you need to put 100,000 KG into LEO. If you only need to put 10,000 it sucks.
And yes you could load it down with a huge number of say Comsats but the cost of a fail would be terrible. You could have 20 dead birds instead of one or two.
The Falcon 9 is a much cheaper system for smaller loads but for big loads you need big rocket.
Wow at this point all I can say is just about everything you said is wrong. The AIM-120 the USs standard BVRM has about 100% kill ratio. If an air craft is in the no escape zone it is in the no escape zone. Visual ID is only required in peace time and in peace keeping operation. Let me explain to you how a no fly zone intercept would work.
1. AWACS detects an aircraft and IDs it using IFF and if no IFF then NCTR.
2. Fighters are vectored to intercept.
3. All friendly aircraft are accounted for and locations checked. If none are missing or out of contact then go for intercept.
4. A warning on over radio is issued to identify and or land.
5. Fighters close and one becomes the looker and one becomes shooter.
6. If the target turns on it's radar or ECM it is identified and shot down.
7. If NCTR has identified the target as hostile it is shot from optimum range.
8. If not identified then the looker will close to identify with optical sensors. Even the F-14 had a long range optical sensor that could ID targets at BVR. If Hostile the shooter takes the shot and the looker breaks.
It is down to a science.
Thank you Mr. Toohey.
Actually not anymore. One of the reasons that the F-14 did so little in the Gulf Wars was that it lacked the modern radars that could do None Cooperative Target Identification. Modern radar can ID a target well past visual range. Your about 10 to 15 years out of date.
No it is like saying that X is the most cost-efficient semi-truck ever made and someone saying my Prius gets better mileage. That is all fine and good except that a Prius can not haul a 10,000 kg across country.
The Falcon Heavy has not flown yet so it's dev costs are still unknown. It will probably be cheaper but it can not put 100,000kg in LEO.
And yes modern design, testing, construction methods, and materials well means that a new F-1a should be better than even the F-1a that was tested in the late 60s. A new booster using them can also be cheaper and better than the Saturn V first stage.
It is a real shame that F-1 and J-2 where allowed to become dead ends. An improved Saturn 1b using a single F-1a for it's first stage would have made a good heavy lift launcher with a larger payload than the Titan IIIC. The improved Saturn V could have been used to launch large parts for a larger space station than SkyLab and the improved Saturn 1b could have launched crews and supplies.
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Exactly, the Olympics is a story about people achieving, the rover landing is about humanity achieving. Both are worthy to watching. I mean the Olympics is not like the Kardashians, WWE, or any of the other mindless drivel on TV. Not only that but they are not a case of one or the other. The landing will be at 1:31 am which is 5:31 am UTC so unless they the Olympics have events at 5 am you will not have to miss anything but some sleep.
In other words STUPID WASTE OF TIME FOR A SLASHDOT STORY. Maybe it would be better to spend time watching the Olympics and the rover landing than posting or reading junk like this.
The Saturn V was the most cost efficient heavy lift launch vehicle to fly. The cost per lb to LEO is only $9,915 which is cheaper than the Atlas V or the Ariane V. The Falcon 9 does beat it but then you have the other metric.
Saturn V 118,000 kg to LEO
Falcon 9 10,450 kg to LEO
Falcon Heavy 53,000 kg to LEO
And that was with 1960s support systems. NASA was working on an improved Saturn 5 and tested F-1a engines that where ligher, had more thrust, and a higher specific impulse than the ones flown in the Saturn 5. Take the F-1a and add modern electronics for control and build the stage using modern methods and materials and you could drop the costs.
What I fear is this is just a tactic to do nothing. If you keep studying the new launch system and changing it you will never have to build it. If you do not build it can never fail so you can never be blamed. As a politico it works well you can spend a ton of money doing studies to save money by finding a better way and when you have spent a lot you can kill the project because "they" have wasted all this money and have not built a thing.
Okay exactly how is not being able to pirate a video game going to limit users in other legal activities.
The simple way to DRM this is a public private key encryption in which the game is tied to the device. Get a new device and add it to your account and you can download the software on your new device.
As long as the developer can choose not to use that DRM and the apps that are DRMed are marked as such I have no problem with it. Let the market sort it out.
Sounds a big bit more dangerous American city I live in.
Well maybe but maybe competition will shift. I hear about how WalMart is destroying local grocery stores. Well here in South Florida it has pretty much taken out Winn Dixie. Of course Winn Dixie tired to be the price leader and let their stores get run down and there staffs shrank. So you had long lines, not the best shopping experience, and bad service.
Publix which is listed as one of the 100 best companies in the US to work for seems to be doing very well. The staff is always friendly and helpful and you are almost always closer to your local Publix than WalMart Supercenter. In my town their are maybe two Walmart Super Centers and at least 6 Publix super markets. They are clean and the staff is friendly. When you ask where something is they will often walk you down to where it is. At one store I asked an employee where something was and they said that thought it was on some isle. Well I went to that isle and while I was looking the employee that I asked came up and said," I checked and I was wrong it is on this isle so and so." They then walked with me to the isle and pointed it out to me.
So hopefully Amazon will create a bottom. Everyone else will have to rise above it to offer a value of service greater than Amazons.
I have a 7" tablet and yes it is a big enough improvement over a cell phone.
A 7" tablet is about as small I want to watch movies and TV on. I can do on my phone but the tablet is much nicer. Also bigger device == bigger battery == longer runtime. I do not want run my phone to zero ever if for no other reason than safety. A second device means that I can keep by phone for communications and my tablet none essential uses.
I also find the 7" more portable than a 10" and the lower cost makes it less risky to use. If a $199 device gets broken or stolen it is far less tragic than if a $499 device does. Heck at replace cost the Nexus 7 is cheaper than my smartphone.
For example since the Nexus 7 has a GPS I am thinking about building a mount for my motorcycle for it. I could use it as a nav device as well as for music on long rides. Another option is a car mount.
I have a Kindle fire right now and it works great as an e reader, media player , and for games.
Well lets look at what you said honestly.
"RIM ignored the generic consumer in favor of selling their products in the business space. "
Who else was buying smartphones? They where expensive and business had the money and the need for them.
"Then Apple released the iPhone which was consumer focused,"
Because Apple couldn't compete with RIM in the Business space. It lacked security and features. The first rev of the iPhone even lacked apps which the Blackberry had.
Apple built a very powerful hardware platform. Their bit of brilliance was that they noticed that you could build a device that you could put in your pocket and run on batteries that was actually more powerful than a VAX 11/780! They figured out you could run a UNIX on a phone aka they put on modified version of OS/X on a phone. Blackberry and frankly everyone else was stuck thinking that phones must use simple OSs and apps. Combine that with Apple getting the UI right which is something Apple is good at and you have the iPhone.
Blackberry wasn't stupid. It was making money hand over fist. They saw a phone as a communication device and expanded it to handle email and messaging really well. It would run all day on a battery and worked well over slow connections. What Apple did was think of the smart phone as a computer that you could make calls on. It's battery life was good enough but not as good as the Blackberry and it and other smart phones like it drove the adoption of faster cellular technology.