The quality of most Linux-oriented code leads to a great deal of time spent porting it to other systems
While I can understand why OSS developers would be content if they can just get their code running on Linux, they do miss out on the debugging opportunities inherent with porting to other systems.
The other aspect is that the OpenBSD team would like to make sure they are not introducing more security holes with the "latest and greatest" from the various projects. Something like KDE or Gnome could be loaded with hard to detect security holes.
It should also be noted that the type of power generation has a lot to do with efficiency, nuclear and coal fired plants are typically more efficient than diesel turbines.
Diesel turbines??? Actually both recent diesel engines and combustion (gas) turbines are more efficient than either a coal or nuclear plant (46% efficiency for a GE H-series turbine, 60% for a combined cycle plant and ~50% for diesel engines versus ~33% for either a coal or nuclear plant). The flip side is that petroleum consumption of a coal or nuclear plant is relatively small.
IIRC, it is that ZFS was released with a license that is not compatible with GPL v2 and thus cannot be part of the Linux Kernel. Will be interesting to see how btfs stacks up with ZFS.
I for one believe that Byrne's behavior rises to the level of criminal, and that he displays behavior patterns most commonly associated with sociopaths in his online interactions.
To be flippant, how is that different than a lot of other corporate CEO's?? You may remember the Slashdot article from a while back about how many CEO's showed many traits in line with sociopaths.
Weiss's actions strongly suggest that there was more going on than just thinking that Byrne was a nutcase. His actions remind me of the Whole Foods CEO using on-line pseudonyms to knock competitors. If there is any truth behind the allegations in the Register article (and that's a really big "if"), Weiss could be in some really hot water.
Japan was working on using biological weapons in 1944 to repel the invasion of Saipan and retaking of Guam. Japan was also making preparations to use radiological weapons in 1945. Fortunately for Japan, the submarines carrying the materials were sunk en-route, as the retaliation for the attacks (especially the bio-warfare) would have been massive.
And you seem to be forgetting about Nanjing (Nanking).
And they did a pretty nice job with the GUI, compare VUE running on HP-UX 8.07 in early 1992 to the then current version of M$-Windoze (3.1). In addition, HP put a lot of work into the design of Motif, which may not have been up to par with the then Mac GUI, but was a lot better looking than Windoze 3.x.
In my area, Speakeasy had always just been a reseller of Covad's services. So, I went with Covad instead and cut out the middle-man.
Strictly speaking, Speakeasy resells Covad's DSL provisioning (i.e. running the DSLAM's). Speakeasy provides the actual internet connectivity, DNS and NTP services. I'm not sure who is responsible for the connection between the DSLAM and Speakeasy's nodes.
I could also be said that Covad is in the business of reselling the ILEC's local loop from the CO to the customer.
But what about using nukes as some sort of "propulsion" system (as in the Project Orion), so they can change the direction of the asteroid? Wont be something for the last minute, but, could work?
Probably the best way to use a nuke to deflect an asteroid is to detonate it at a slight standoff. The ablated surface from the asteroid nearest the detonation will generate thrust spread over a large area - which is exactly how Project Orion worked.
At least some of the functionality in the claims was present in HP's Visual User Environment from no later than 1991. Bear in mind that UNIX has had devices in the same namespace as the filesystems.
There isn't much in the claims (and not clearly covered by prior art) that strikes me as particularly vital for a non-MS operating system.
Microsoft can pry my Corpus Callosum from my cold, dead brain.
At first I read that as Corpus Cavernosa (saw that an article earlier today was submitted by a user with that nick - must be a dick). Then again, it might be that a typical MS manager has a corpus cavernosa where his/her corpus collosum should be.
The HP 35 used code running on what would now be called a micro-controller, and the first ones were probably running late 1971 based on reading a review in the April 1972 issue of Pop Electronics. I would guess that the Air Traffic Control system uses code that is a decade older...
As mentioned in another post, I've got some FORTRAN source from the 1960's that still compiles. As the person I was replying to stated, there's probably some FORTRAN code from the late 1950's still floating around.
A dead give-away would be the use of Arithmetic IF statements... I've got one source file on my system that was copied from "Bases of FORTRAN" (mostly FORTRAN II code) which still compiles with f777 from the Sun Studio suite.
Too bad I don't have any mod points, as I'd trust your word on this subject more than 99.8% of the crowd on Slashdot.
You're right in that this is an "updated" version of core memory - use a big pulse to flip the state, use smaller pulses to read. What makes this different is that the cell size is several orders of magnitude smaller than core - and appears to be even smaller than a DRAM cell. That's what makes this component different.
Reminds me of a story told to me by one of the Atlas missile engineers regarding the first silicon transistors. They didn't do anything that couldn't be done with either mag-amps or vacuum tubes. The difference was that the circuitry using the transistors was much smaller and lighter than a mag-amp or vacuum tube circuit - a highly desirable quality for something going into an ICBM. BTW, this is how TI got its start as a large scale manufacturer of semiconductors.
I was a bit put off by the tone of TFA with respect to the Pioneer anomaly. While it is unlikely that the anomaly will disprove our models of gravity, it is an excellent example of a gap in our understanding of physics.
Figure 24h *30 days = 720 hours / month, so a 300Watt PC going full tilt for a month burns 216kWh. Average kWh in the US is.10 cents. So $21 bucks a month on average just to 'tear up your CPU'. (or $250 a year on average... up to $500 a year in California or New York where electricity is higher...)
I would be surprised if this application couldn't be made to fit on something like a Technologic Systems http://www.embeddedarm.com/ TS-7400 (which comes with a 12Mb/s USB port, cost $100 in quantity). The AC power draw for the TS-7400 plus accelerometer would be 6 watts max ($5 to $10/yr) and would pay for itself in less than a year. In addition, the TS-7600 is fanless and diskless, so there would be much less extraneous vibration.
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The quality of most Linux-oriented code leads to a great deal of time spent porting it to other systems
While I can understand why OSS developers would be content if they can just get their code running on Linux, they do miss out on the debugging opportunities inherent with porting to other systems.
The other aspect is that the OpenBSD team would like to make sure they are not introducing more security holes with the "latest and greatest" from the various projects. Something like KDE or Gnome could be loaded with hard to detect security holes.
Good question. I like a couple of Vulture Central's units of measure for volume: Bulgarian Airbag and Bulgarian Funbag...
It's rare but being hit by metorites *does* happen.
The first recorded case in the US happened a few weeks after I was born and something like a hundred or so miles from where I was living at the time.
It should also be noted that the type of power generation has a lot to do with efficiency, nuclear and coal fired plants are typically more efficient than diesel turbines.
Diesel turbines??? Actually both recent diesel engines and combustion (gas) turbines are more efficient than either a coal or nuclear plant (46% efficiency for a GE H-series turbine, 60% for a combined cycle plant and ~50% for diesel engines versus ~33% for either a coal or nuclear plant). The flip side is that petroleum consumption of a coal or nuclear plant is relatively small.
IIRC, it is that ZFS was released with a license that is not compatible with GPL v2 and thus cannot be part of the Linux Kernel. Will be interesting to see how btfs stacks up with ZFS.
I for one believe that Byrne's behavior rises to the level of criminal, and that he displays behavior patterns most commonly associated with sociopaths in his online interactions.
To be flippant, how is that different than a lot of other corporate CEO's?? You may remember the Slashdot article from a while back about how many CEO's showed many traits in line with sociopaths.
Weiss's actions strongly suggest that there was more going on than just thinking that Byrne was a nutcase. His actions remind me of the Whole Foods CEO using on-line pseudonyms to knock competitors. If there is any truth behind the allegations in the Register article (and that's a really big "if"), Weiss could be in some really hot water.
I'm due for another Cardiolyte imaging in February, so may have a glowing heart when the games are on.
And you seem to be forgetting about Nanjing (Nanking).
And they did a pretty nice job with the GUI, compare VUE running on HP-UX 8.07 in early 1992 to the then current version of M$-Windoze (3.1). In addition, HP put a lot of work into the design of Motif, which may not have been up to par with the then Mac GUI, but was a lot better looking than Windoze 3.x.
The whole point of an electric power grid is that the peak load from 1,000 customers is a lot less than 1,000X the peak load of a single customer.
In my area, Speakeasy had always just been a reseller of Covad's services. So, I went with Covad instead and cut out the middle-man.
Strictly speaking, Speakeasy resells Covad's DSL provisioning (i.e. running the DSLAM's). Speakeasy provides the actual internet connectivity, DNS and NTP services. I'm not sure who is responsible for the connection between the DSLAM and Speakeasy's nodes.
I could also be said that Covad is in the business of reselling the ILEC's local loop from the CO to the customer.
I tried the 'evil' link and didn't see anything amiss. Middle mouse button worked fine and had to use CTRL-V to see the result.
ISP has been used to refer to specific impulse well before packet switched networks were used to connect computers.
But what about using nukes as some sort of "propulsion" system (as in the Project Orion), so they can change the direction of the asteroid? Wont be something for the last minute, but, could work?
Probably the best way to use a nuke to deflect an asteroid is to detonate it at a slight standoff. The ablated surface from the asteroid nearest the detonation will generate thrust spread over a large area - which is exactly how Project Orion worked.
There isn't much in the claims (and not clearly covered by prior art) that strikes me as particularly vital for a non-MS operating system.
I may be a bit off base here, but the Apple I tape formst precedes the Kansas City Standard (1200 baud FSK).
And to think that my first analog circuits class was taught by prof Leon Chua...
At first I read that as Corpus Cavernosa (saw that an article earlier today was submitted by a user with that nick - must be a dick). Then again, it might be that a typical MS manager has a corpus cavernosa where his/her corpus collosum should be.
The HP 35 used code running on what would now be called a micro-controller, and the first ones were probably running late 1971 based on reading a review in the April 1972 issue of Pop Electronics. I would guess that the Air Traffic Control system uses code that is a decade older...
As mentioned in another post, I've got some FORTRAN source from the 1960's that still compiles. As the person I was replying to stated, there's probably some FORTRAN code from the late 1950's still floating around.
Too bad I don't have any mod points, as I'd trust your word on this subject more than 99.8% of the crowd on Slashdot.
I would be surprised if it was first written in Algol (which roughly dates to 1960) as FORTRAN dates back to 1957.
Reminds me of a story told to me by one of the Atlas missile engineers regarding the first silicon transistors. They didn't do anything that couldn't be done with either mag-amps or vacuum tubes. The difference was that the circuitry using the transistors was much smaller and lighter than a mag-amp or vacuum tube circuit - a highly desirable quality for something going into an ICBM. BTW, this is how TI got its start as a large scale manufacturer of semiconductors.
I was a bit put off by the tone of TFA with respect to the Pioneer anomaly. While it is unlikely that the anomaly will disprove our models of gravity, it is an excellent example of a gap in our understanding of physics.
I would be surprised if this application couldn't be made to fit on something like a Technologic Systems http://www.embeddedarm.com/ TS-7400 (which comes with a 12Mb/s USB port, cost $100 in quantity). The AC power draw for the TS-7400 plus accelerometer would be 6 watts max ($5 to $10/yr) and would pay for itself in less than a year. In addition, the TS-7600 is fanless and diskless, so there would be much less extraneous vibration.