All Mini Cooper models are built to order. I toured the production plant in Oxford England recently. 100% just-in-time manufacturing process. You'll have a blue British spec followed by a yellow North American spec followed by another color Japanese spec, etc. Of the hundreds of cars in the plant at the time NONE of them were exactly the same as mine and probably not as each other.
Now, if this guy has the same 280 Million British Pounds to invest in building a plant (as was done by BMW group for the Mini), more power to him. I doubt he realizes what he's really getting into. Probably trying to build hype in the media to attract the investors he needs for such a project.
carry such exotic fare as the non-rated version of "Embrace of the Vampire". So what good is the service?
Seriously, Wal-Mart will heavily sensor the movies they carry. I say screw-em.
I have a subscription and it just got to my house today. The article has the code, no big deal since it is available. If you really want it just fire up an unpatched Windows SQL server and wait a few minutes.
The article does a great job of explaining the worm and defining the impact it had. They also give the standard gloom and doom that we are just waiting for the 'next big one' to hit.
Actually ATI has done this as far back as the Xpert@Play series from 1997/98. They wrote drivers that gave great benchmarks with the leading benchmark tests. Then people started using game demos as benchmarks and the cards showed their true colors. This is why places like Tom's Hardware use a variety of games to make it hard for manuacturers to cheat.
Damn, a few years ago ATI did a similar thing to the drivers with the Xpert@play cards. The cards got good benchmarks that never held up once people actually played the games. They got beat up pretty bad for it at the time. Now it looks like nVidia's turn.
They developed a ton of cool stuff that AGAIN is going to be ripped off by every damned sf-movie, commercial, and friggin Shrek II. Therefore they decided to do both films at once and release them this year. Then they don't have to work so hard to create even better effects in another 4 years from now.
To give you an idea of this acceleration, the current TF dragster elapsed time record is 4.477
seconds for the quarter mile. This means that you could be coming across the starting line in your average Lingenfelter powered "twin-turbo" Corvette at 200 mph (on a FLYING START) and the dragster would BEAT you to the finish line FROM A DEAD STOP in a quarter mile distance! Unbelievable, but true...
since at 200mph, it takes you 4.5 seconds to cover a quarter mile.
The theory that sometimes evolution happens in spurts as opposed to slow gradual change is Punctuated Equilibrium, not Punctured Equilibrium.
I used to be a Molcular Biologist.
Based on the following, it will be quite some time before the electrics are doing 320+mph and 4s in the 1320.
Some interesting Top Fuel dragster facts:
* One dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower then the first 8 rows at Daytona
* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1 1/2 gallons of nitro per second, the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded 747 but with 4 times the energy volume.
* The supercharger takes more power to drive then a stock hemi makes.
* Even with nearly 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into nearly-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock.
* Dual magnetos apply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
* At stoichiometric (exact) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture (for nitro), the flame front of nitromethane measures 7050 degrees F.
* Nitromethane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.
* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression-plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting of it's fuel flow.
* If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in those cylinders and then explodes with a force that can blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or blow the block in half.
* Dragsters twist the crank (torsionally) so far (20 degrees in the big end of the track) that sometimes cam lobes are ground offset from front to rear to re-phase the valve timing somewhere closer to synchronization with the pistons.
* To exceed 300mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of over 4G's. But in reaching 200 mph well before 1/2 track, launch acceleration is closer to 8G's.
* If all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs $1000.00 per second.
* Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have read this sentence.
To put this in perspective:
PIX v5.2 and Checkpoint NG are both certified to EAL 4. However, I still can't tell my PIX to not bother logging dropped packets to port 137 without telling it to not log _any_ drops at all! On checkpoint I can log based specifically on the rule, not just service or action.
Both are "certified" but there is only one I would prefer to use.
Yes, but your example is just for the physical refigerator case not the "business process" of putting a product in a place where potential customers can see it, buy it, etc.
I gave up ATI after my eXpert@play board. I bought the board, installed it and the RAM was bad. Called ATI tech support IN CANADA!!! No 1-800 number! At first they wanted me to spend my own money to send them the bad card and get a new one. I said, "If I have to spend my own money the card goes back to the place I bought it and I buy 3Dfx." So ATI sends me a card and a UPS shipping label. I still spent $20 to call in the first place!
Next, I found out that the benchmarks I had looked at so long were for a tweaked set of drivers that ATI had released to get better scores on Quake and the card sucked for anything else and wasn't as good for Quake as I thought! This was one week after I'd bought the card.
By the looks of the graphics it won't even be that much of a leap. They still had many hard edges on beings with rounded body types, etc. I'm looking forward to the day when 3D skins go over 3D muscle-skeletal frames that have real weight and movement like the dinos in JP or other movies. I want grey-matter with head shots and bowels from the belly. Maybe the ability to cut off a major limb and watch them bleed to death.
It will be a few years but that will be the next big step in any realism for me.
It is really too bad the Enterasys product wasn't available. I've implemented that on a _very_ large government department network with dual T-3 pipes and collecting >1Gig of data per day. Yes, still many false alarms to sift through but the uptime was measured in months not days or hours. This same gov't department has had other IDS vendors try to bring in their products to no avail because none of them can stay up >24 hours.
Actually they do sell half empty refills with the razor. Most of the time you get one blade in the razor, one or two more in the refill cartridge that comes with it. Then have to buy the 5 or 10 pack of replacement blades to keep going.
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How long until a lumpy kid in the midwest gets busted by the Feds?
All Mini Cooper models are built to order. I toured the production plant in Oxford England recently. 100% just-in-time manufacturing process. You'll have a blue British spec followed by a yellow North American spec followed by another color Japanese spec, etc. Of the hundreds of cars in the plant at the time NONE of them were exactly the same as mine and probably not as each other.
Now, if this guy has the same 280 Million British Pounds to invest in building a plant (as was done by BMW group for the Mini), more power to him. I doubt he realizes what he's really getting into. Probably trying to build hype in the media to attract the investors he needs for such a project.
carry such exotic fare as the non-rated version of "Embrace of the Vampire". So what good is the service? Seriously, Wal-Mart will heavily sensor the movies they carry. I say screw-em.
I have a subscription and it just got to my house today. The article has the code, no big deal since it is available. If you really want it just fire up an unpatched Windows SQL server and wait a few minutes.
The article does a great job of explaining the worm and defining the impact it had. They also give the standard gloom and doom that we are just waiting for the 'next big one' to hit.
Actually ATI has done this as far back as the Xpert@Play series from 1997/98. They wrote drivers that gave great benchmarks with the leading benchmark tests. Then people started using game demos as benchmarks and the cards showed their true colors. This is why places like Tom's Hardware use a variety of games to make it hard for manuacturers to cheat.
Damn, a few years ago ATI did a similar thing to the drivers with the Xpert@play cards. The cards got good benchmarks that never held up once people actually played the games. They got beat up pretty bad for it at the time. Now it looks like nVidia's turn.
They developed a ton of cool stuff that AGAIN is going to be ripped off by every damned sf-movie, commercial, and friggin Shrek II. Therefore they decided to do both films at once and release them this year. Then they don't have to work so hard to create even better effects in another 4 years from now.
Right on! Boy I miss College Station! I wish the DC area could get a nice dedicated patch of runway.
The redline is actually quite high at 9500rpm.
I didn't see ice being dispensed. How about a Lego robotic arm to grab a couple cubes and toss them in the glass!
To give you an idea of this acceleration, the current TF dragster elapsed time record is 4.477 seconds for the quarter mile. This means that you could be coming across the starting line in your average Lingenfelter powered "twin-turbo" Corvette at 200 mph (on a FLYING START) and the dragster would BEAT you to the finish line FROM A DEAD STOP in a quarter mile distance! Unbelievable, but true ...
since at 200mph, it takes you 4.5 seconds to cover a quarter mile.
The theory that sometimes evolution happens in spurts as opposed to slow gradual change is Punctuated Equilibrium, not Punctured Equilibrium. I used to be a Molcular Biologist.
Top Fuel Engines ONLY turn 540 revolutions from light to light!
Based on the following, it will be quite some time before the electrics are doing 320+mph and 4s in the 1320.
Some interesting Top Fuel dragster facts:
* One dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower then the first 8
rows at Daytona
* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1 1/2 gallons of
nitro per second, the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded
747
but with 4 times the energy volume.
* The supercharger takes more power to drive then a stock hemi makes.
* Even with nearly 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger
on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into nearly-solid form
before
ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock.
* Dual magnetos apply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output
of an arc welder in each cylinder.
* At stoichiometric (exact) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture (for nitro), the
flame front of nitromethane measures 7050 degrees F.
* Nitromethane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above
the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from
atmospheric
water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.
* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2
way, the engine is dieseling from compression-plus the glow of exhaust
valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting
of
it's fuel flow.
* If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds
up in those cylinders and then explodes with a force that can blow
cylinder
heads off the block in pieces or blow the block in half.
* Dragsters twist the crank (torsionally) so far (20 degrees in the
big end of the track) that sometimes cam lobes are ground offset from
front
to rear to re-phase the valve timing somewhere closer to
synchronization
with the pistons.
* To exceed 300mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an
average of over 4G's. But in reaching 200 mph well before 1/2 track,
launch
acceleration is closer to 8G's.
* If all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for
once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs $1000.00 per second.
* Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have read this
sentence.
Games, interoperability with others at work (OpenOffice is good but not a perfect replacement), and the ability to maybe get a first post? ;)
To put this in perspective: PIX v5.2 and Checkpoint NG are both certified to EAL 4. However, I still can't tell my PIX to not bother logging dropped packets to port 137 without telling it to not log _any_ drops at all! On checkpoint I can log based specifically on the rule, not just service or action. Both are "certified" but there is only one I would prefer to use.
This is the same as a Palm V with a different case. Go on e-bay and get a Palm V for about $75.00.
Yes, but your example is just for the physical refigerator case not the "business process" of putting a product in a place where potential customers can see it, buy it, etc.
Yes, but MY new business model will be to come up with a really generic idea, wait 11 years, and sue you for sueing them!
Just tested against a locked down Win2k Pro system and no go. Also tried a Win98 box and didn't work there either.
I gave up ATI after my eXpert@play board. I bought the board, installed it and the RAM was bad. Called ATI tech support IN CANADA!!! No 1-800 number! At first they wanted me to spend my own money to send them the bad card and get a new one. I said, "If I have to spend my own money the card goes back to the place I bought it and I buy 3Dfx." So ATI sends me a card and a UPS shipping label. I still spent $20 to call in the first place!
Next, I found out that the benchmarks I had looked at so long were for a tweaked set of drivers that ATI had released to get better scores on Quake and the card sucked for anything else and wasn't as good for Quake as I thought! This was one week after I'd bought the card.
I'll NEVER trust them again.
By the looks of the graphics it won't even be that much of a leap. They still had many hard edges on beings with rounded body types, etc. I'm looking forward to the day when 3D skins go over 3D muscle-skeletal frames that have real weight and movement like the dinos in JP or other movies. I want grey-matter with head shots and bowels from the belly. Maybe the ability to cut off a major limb and watch them bleed to death. It will be a few years but that will be the next big step in any realism for me.
Yeah, M$ is changing just like Saddam Hussien in the South Park movie.
It is really too bad the Enterasys product wasn't available. I've implemented that on a _very_ large government department network with dual T-3 pipes and collecting >1Gig of data per day. Yes, still many false alarms to sift through but the uptime was measured in months not days or hours. This same gov't department has had other IDS vendors try to bring in their products to no avail because none of them can stay up >24 hours.
Actually they do sell half empty refills with the razor. Most of the time you get one blade in the razor, one or two more in the refill cartridge that comes with it. Then have to buy the 5 or 10 pack of replacement blades to keep going.