hmmm, two million transistors in the CPU, each consisting of junctions that look like diodes... you know, there is going to be stray voltage all over hell and gone if you feed this chip sandwich by putting it in the path of a few hundred watts of gigahertz RF. I smell substrate cooking.....
early crays did this by layering chip on chip with metallic layer welding between the GaAs nuggets. that's why crays had to run in freon baths or liquid air. this can be expected to raise the price of sun servers built with that type of layering technology. substantially.
isn't the market moving in the opposite direction, towards demanding cheap commodity solutions?
the rocky mountain news had a little article couple weeks back about this... namely... there are no red-tape areas in the flats any more, the contamination has been adjudged removed. they're ready to knock down the last buildings. the workers surely got their 45 arms around the issue there. but it's all been put into drums, and moved elsewhere, mostly near aitkin, south carolina, to old DOE production facilities there.
well, yes, yes it is. but I'm sure that doesn't have anything to do with mutated code in windows that does evil things. I'm absolutely )(&(*F^S*&FOIUSJ
"whoops", the washington public power production system, used steam from three hanford reactors for public power generation for something like 20 years, until the last of the piles was shut down in the 1980s. costs related to buying alternate power contributed greatly to the bankruptcy of WPPPS when the piles were getting rotten and unpredictable and kept tripping off line. so yes, the hanford reservation WAS a nuclear production facility for weapons plutonium. AND YES, hanford WAS a public power reactor farm as well.
at hanford if they don't clean the fscking pit up. and within a few short years.
damned if you do, damned for sure and doubled if you don't.
since the energy department can't get it's collective schist together on cleaning up the mess it and its predecessors promised to do for 40 years running now, the place for this waste is in the lobby of their building at 1000 independence avenue SW, washington DC. see if they get excited about THAT....
yes, you now can feel free to have a life when you get off work each night! if manglement does not give you tools to respond to off-hours issues, and does not reimburse for same, fsck 'em. phone rings, thank them for the notification, and assure them they can solve the problem before you get back in the morning.
gee, I always thought the idea behind semiautomatic weapons and xray in the airports was to expose darwinian underlings and then contain them. witness the occasional football player, coach, or congressman who is caught with a gun in their luggage. the purpose of the repeating weapons is to keep these peabrains from running. the purpose of the whole exercise is to identify folks so devoid of intelligence to the public so we can take care of them.
it's just that simple. it occasionally stops a wacko bin looney or mother-in-law, too.
one trick the "family groups" used to use in lebanon, told to me by an IT worker we had who was raised there, was to cut the bottom out of a coke can, pop the pin on a grenade, slide the can over the grenade, and set it down on a street someplace.
there are doubtless other interesting things to do with coke cans, so I avoid 'em:-D
allow letters in the serial number portion, overlay models onto the "old" model designations, revisit closed plant IDs for that section of the VIN... lots of possibilities out there. it's pretty simple to fix any code that demands that the last 6 characters be numeric, for instance, and the hardest part is for folks to accept that if you set too small an address space, you have to hack it later and fool up your pretty rules.
this is not rocket science, and civilization will not die.
and it should be Federal law. otherwise, it is an unreported drain on companies' earnings and a dilution of the stock, screwing investors twice. three times, when you consider that the goons running these outfits think screwing investors twice in a row is OK, and you wonder what other scams they are running.
and three more, CONTEMPT OF COURT. RIAA officials should be jailed for this bullshit until they come up with educationally significant materials, like the full catalog of classic recordings. this is like being required to post a deposit at the clerk of court's office and doing so by taking their pants down.
he's really gone off the deep end the past few years, it's time for him to retire and surround himself with his little tin Nazi soldier toys. he is not of this nation any more with his actions.
and folks often do... witness the onerous "personal contracts" you have to sign to get into the music business, where you are essentiall a creative wage slave and don't own your stuff. non-compete and discoveries-belong clauses in your work contract also sign your rights away to The Man. similarly, if you register your DNS information independently and run your own servers, your ISP and its uplines do the same, and so on including all the sites you visit, you theoretically should not be captive to any of the commercial DNS services.
as I understand it, akamai is a distributed content hosting/caching service that also does DNS server services. they put a blade in your local ISP under contract, and popular pages from their customers serve off the local akamai server cache. they handle the DNS for those sites as I understand. if their blade caches get fed evil data, you get evil data, and www.fartblossom.org may disappear.
you can kill DNS by screwing up your own router, too. lots of ways to kill a distributed service that requires everybody to cooperate on a common set of standards and parameters.
you have your 12 buttons and your 1.5-inch screen. consider writing war and peace.. or even a screenplay for the next episode of some twaddle half-hour sitcom... on that freakin' tiny thing.
ain't gonna happen, total worldwide sales = 0, including gadget geeks.
the next iteration will have 101 keys and a 1.5-inch color XGA screen in the same palmprint. removeable flash cards. built-in strip printer. snap-on color faceplates. and the buttons will be the size of cockroach droppings with mushy feel.
total worldwide sales = 150, all gadget geeks, who subsequently renounce worldly goods and wiles, and live as zen hermits on mountaintops until struck by lightning.
the most cogent review of where MS is now in regards to the industry and customer focus that I've seen.
I've said for years that MS screwed windows 95 by going to the registry. used to be in 3.x that when somebody important upgraded their computer, you could copy their old.ini files over to the new machine under new suffixes, as well as their data and program trees. you then edit the new-machine.ini files, putting in the program references and printer references, etc. from the old files, and reboot. voila, it's YOUR machine on steroids with nuclear power.
because you can't do that with the registry, when I roached a disk trying to RAID my windows machine last fall on an unfamiliar controller, I couldn't get my machine back. ended up chucking it as parts on eBay, and run an eMac now (had to get glass video instead of a cinema display because I am marrying into a family with another hacker cat; all that cat's energy goes into growing claws.)
so another "softie" who goes back to MS-DOS 2.11 has switched. and MS keeps screwing up in delivering the customer experience as CONTROLLED by the customer.
hardware will be free when monkey-boy flies on his own power. if sun is predicting their servers will be free now... well, hoo boy, do I have a list of enterprise 8-processor machines for him to ship!!!
and please, when you ship those free servers to me, also ship spares ahead, so we save time when their techs come out gratis to swap modules.
my friend, you don't have 99.999% availiability with cell phones, and they are eating the telcos' lunch. VoIP moved the same thought patterns to wireline -- if it's cheap enough, you can afford to say "WHAT? Bill, can't hear -- BILL! HELLO ?!?!?" a couple times. that's what big business is saying by changing internal calling to VoIP, and there is a boatfull of that now and more every day.
surprised some MBA hasn't proposed this to solve the drug price crisis. "Ask your doctor if PILL is right for you." you go to the pharmacy, and there is a big horse trough full of, uh, PILLS. all kinds and all colors, all mixed up. You need 40, they scoop up 40. Whatever they scoop, you get. if God's on your side, there might be two of the ones that are specific to your disease.
that's where comms is going. it's up to your software to sort out the little shield-shaped pink/beige 20 mg jobs you need from the box of PILL. it's a smart scoop that gets your RIGHT pills from the pile of PILL. since computers are cheap and fast and can recognize the SNAP header, it all works out. that is why VoIP has a hundred-to-one cost advantage over traditional telco, even without the tax issues, and why it eventually will rule.
that Da ISH is built from, and there will be more classifications. you want higher priority, you pay more. there are multiple names for service priority, MPLS on ethernet, CBR/VBR/VBRnt on ATM, service levels on frame relay if a carrier implements them -- but it's real.
ISPs buy what they want, and if it's not a dedicated point-to-point circuit, they are usually buying traffic-interruptable service like VBRnt or frame. remember, the Internet is best-attempt by definition already, and YOUR software has to deal with anything other than sequential packets sent at a constant rate of speed. you don't like that, stay on POTS, or upgrade your software.
if you want PRIORITY service, with MPLS on the switching/routing end and higher classes of service like CBR availiable for a sub-circuit of an ISP's T3 to an upline, for instance, that can become possible quite easily. it gets more complicated if you want it beyond an ISP's reach, but it can be done sometime as soon as agreements are reached to allow it.
the Bells are offering or tarriffing to offer such priority VoIP services now. for the Internet to offer it, you will need to have a protocol approved by IETF for it. propose or lobby against over there.
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he should realize possession is nine-tenths of the law. sumbitch wants it, he has to live there.
ain't much, but one lawyer into the sun is a start...
hmmm, two million transistors in the CPU, each consisting of junctions that look like diodes... you know, there is going to be stray voltage all over hell and gone if you feed this chip sandwich by putting it in the path of a few hundred watts of gigahertz RF. I smell substrate cooking.....
early crays did this by layering chip on chip with metallic layer welding between the GaAs nuggets. that's why crays had to run in freon baths or liquid air. this can be expected to raise the price of sun servers built with that type of layering technology. substantially.
isn't the market moving in the opposite direction, towards demanding cheap commodity solutions?
just asking....
is Whirlwind still availiable? good name for a game console, don't you think?
just teach a frog to sing "stairway to heaven" and take that to the sports bar.
the problem is getting a brace of crickets to play guitars for realism.
the rocky mountain news had a little article couple weeks back about this... namely... there are no red-tape areas in the flats any more, the contamination has been adjudged removed. they're ready to knock down the last buildings. the workers surely got their 45 arms around the issue there. but it's all been put into drums, and moved elsewhere, mostly near aitkin, south carolina, to old DOE production facilities there.
well, yes, yes it is. but I'm sure that doesn't have anything to do with mutated code in windows that does evil things. I'm absolutely )(&(*F^S*&FOIUSJ
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"whoops", the washington public power production system, used steam from three hanford reactors for public power generation for something like 20 years, until the last of the piles was shut down in the 1980s. costs related to buying alternate power contributed greatly to the bankruptcy of WPPPS when the piles were getting rotten and unpredictable and kept tripping off line. so yes, the hanford reservation WAS a nuclear production facility for weapons plutonium. AND YES, hanford WAS a public power reactor farm as well.
at hanford if they don't clean the fscking pit up. and within a few short years.
damned if you do, damned for sure and doubled if you don't.
since the energy department can't get it's collective schist together on cleaning up the mess it and its predecessors promised to do for 40 years running now, the place for this waste is in the lobby of their building at 1000 independence avenue SW, washington DC. see if they get excited about THAT....
"schiess schiess" would just be crap.
yes, you now can feel free to have a life when you get off work each night! if manglement does not give you tools to respond to off-hours issues, and does not reimburse for same, fsck 'em. phone rings, thank them for the notification, and assure them they can solve the problem before you get back in the morning.
gee, I always thought the idea behind semiautomatic weapons and xray in the airports was to expose darwinian underlings and then contain them. witness the occasional football player, coach, or congressman who is caught with a gun in their luggage. the purpose of the repeating weapons is to keep these peabrains from running. the purpose of the whole exercise is to identify folks so devoid of intelligence to the public so we can take care of them.
it's just that simple. it occasionally stops a wacko bin looney or mother-in-law, too.
one trick the "family groups" used to use in lebanon, told to me by an IT worker we had who was raised there, was to cut the bottom out of a coke can, pop the pin on a grenade, slide the can over the grenade, and set it down on a street someplace.
:-D
there are doubtless other interesting things to do with coke cans, so I avoid 'em
allow letters in the serial number portion, overlay models onto the "old" model designations, revisit closed plant IDs for that section of the VIN... lots of possibilities out there. it's pretty simple to fix any code that demands that the last 6 characters be numeric, for instance, and the hardest part is for folks to accept that if you set too small an address space, you have to hack it later and fool up your pretty rules.
this is not rocket science, and civilization will not die.
and it should be Federal law. otherwise, it is an unreported drain on companies' earnings and a dilution of the stock, screwing investors twice. three times, when you consider that the goons running these outfits think screwing investors twice in a row is OK, and you wonder what other scams they are running.
and three more, CONTEMPT OF COURT. RIAA officials should be jailed for this bullshit until they come up with educationally significant materials, like the full catalog of classic recordings. this is like being required to post a deposit at the clerk of court's office and doing so by taking their pants down.
he's really gone off the deep end the past few years, it's time for him to retire and surround himself with his little tin Nazi soldier toys. he is not of this nation any more with his actions.
what DTV was doing was similar to blackmailing everybody they found for owning a pencil and paper, for such could be used to design a scam on them.
I really ought to send EFF some money today, they are doing good things in the face of onerous greedhead attacks.
and folks often do... witness the onerous "personal contracts" you have to sign to get into the music business, where you are essentiall a creative wage slave and don't own your stuff. non-compete and discoveries-belong clauses in your work contract also sign your rights away to The Man. similarly, if you register your DNS information independently and run your own servers, your ISP and its uplines do the same, and so on including all the sites you visit, you theoretically should not be captive to any of the commercial DNS services.
as I understand it, akamai is a distributed content hosting/caching service that also does DNS server services. they put a blade in your local ISP under contract, and popular pages from their customers serve off the local akamai server cache. they handle the DNS for those sites as I understand. if their blade caches get fed evil data, you get evil data, and www.fartblossom.org may disappear.
you can kill DNS by screwing up your own router, too. lots of ways to kill a distributed service that requires everybody to cooperate on a common set of standards and parameters.
so stop putting that horse porn on the drives, then. besides, ( very old joke ) all the pretty horses are in Kentucky, anyway (/ very old joke )
you have your 12 buttons and your 1.5-inch screen. consider writing war and peace.. or even a screenplay for the next episode of some twaddle half-hour sitcom... on that freakin' tiny thing.
ain't gonna happen, total worldwide sales = 0, including gadget geeks.
the next iteration will have 101 keys and a 1.5-inch color XGA screen in the same palmprint. removeable flash cards. built-in strip printer. snap-on color faceplates. and the buttons will be the size of cockroach droppings with mushy feel.
total worldwide sales = 150, all gadget geeks, who subsequently renounce worldly goods and wiles, and live as zen hermits on mountaintops until struck by lightning.
nothing good can come of this.
the most cogent review of where MS is now in regards to the industry and customer focus that I've seen.
.ini files over to the new machine under new suffixes, as well as their data and program trees. you then edit the new-machine .ini files, putting in the program references and printer references, etc. from the old files, and reboot. voila, it's YOUR machine on steroids with nuclear power.
I've said for years that MS screwed windows 95 by going to the registry. used to be in 3.x that when somebody important upgraded their computer, you could copy their old
because you can't do that with the registry, when I roached a disk trying to RAID my windows machine last fall on an unfamiliar controller, I couldn't get my machine back. ended up chucking it as parts on eBay, and run an eMac now (had to get glass video instead of a cinema display because I am marrying into a family with another hacker cat; all that cat's energy goes into growing claws.)
so another "softie" who goes back to MS-DOS 2.11 has switched. and MS keeps screwing up in delivering the customer experience as CONTROLLED by the customer.
MSFT: hold to sell if you've got the stock IMHO.
hardware will be free when monkey-boy flies on his own power. if sun is predicting their servers will be free now... well, hoo boy, do I have a list of enterprise 8-processor machines for him to ship!!!
and please, when you ship those free servers to me, also ship spares ahead, so we save time when their techs come out gratis to swap modules.
my friend, you don't have 99.999% availiability with cell phones, and they are eating the telcos' lunch. VoIP moved the same thought patterns to wireline -- if it's cheap enough, you can afford to say "WHAT? Bill, can't hear -- BILL! HELLO ?!?!?" a couple times. that's what big business is saying by changing internal calling to VoIP, and there is a boatfull of that now and more every day.
surprised some MBA hasn't proposed this to solve the drug price crisis. "Ask your doctor if PILL is right for you." you go to the pharmacy, and there is a big horse trough full of, uh, PILLS. all kinds and all colors, all mixed up. You need 40, they scoop up 40. Whatever they scoop, you get. if God's on your side, there might be two of the ones that are specific to your disease.
that's where comms is going. it's up to your software to sort out the little shield-shaped pink/beige 20 mg jobs you need from the box of PILL. it's a smart scoop that gets your RIGHT pills from the pile of PILL. since computers are cheap and fast and can recognize the SNAP header, it all works out. that is why VoIP has a hundred-to-one cost advantage over traditional telco, even without the tax issues, and why it eventually will rule.
that Da ISH is built from, and there will be more classifications. you want higher priority, you pay more. there are multiple names for service priority, MPLS on ethernet, CBR/VBR/VBRnt on ATM, service levels on frame relay if a carrier implements them -- but it's real.
ISPs buy what they want, and if it's not a dedicated point-to-point circuit, they are usually buying traffic-interruptable service like VBRnt or frame. remember, the Internet is best-attempt by definition already, and YOUR software has to deal with anything other than sequential packets sent at a constant rate of speed. you don't like that, stay on POTS, or upgrade your software.
if you want PRIORITY service, with MPLS on the switching/routing end and higher classes of service like CBR availiable for a sub-circuit of an ISP's T3 to an upline, for instance, that can become possible quite easily. it gets more complicated if you want it beyond an ISP's reach, but it can be done sometime as soon as agreements are reached to allow it.
the Bells are offering or tarriffing to offer such priority VoIP services now. for the Internet to offer it, you will need to have a protocol approved by IETF for it. propose or lobby against over there.