Regardless of the ten year gap, Forbidden Planet was one of the chief inspirations for Star Trek.
The other being Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - a ship useful for both waging war and conducting science - having said that, Star Trek aged much better than Voyage.
It's their network, they can do whatever they want
If they don't own the right of way that their network uses to access their customers, then it isn't just "their" network. Because they undoubtedly make use of an easement and/or franchise for the right-of-way, they can't do anything they want.
If you want to go to an extreme property rights viewpoint- I'd have the right to tear up the Comcast cable line where it went on my property.
...the judge is going to throw you out. If you're lucky, his parting comments will include a bit of free advice: find another ISP.
If Comcast was a dial-up ISP, the judge would have a valid point. What you're forgetting is that Comcast uses cable and that is subject to the terms of the franchise agreement with whatever government entity granted the franchise to provide cable service. In many cases, they are the only choice for high speed internet connection, which makes finding another ISP a bit difficult.
You can see it well, you can hear it really well, and what you CANNOT get from the TV is: you can FEEL it launch. Your best home media solution with massive subwoofers can't even com close to the rumble you can feel from the soles of your feet thru the top of your hair!
I remember hearing the engine tests at Rocketdyne's Santa Susanna test facility when living in Thousand Oaks about 15 miles away. The whole house was shaking and it was impressive hearing the sliding glass doors rattle away and these were puny compared to the SRM's used on the Shuttle. About 10 years later I head Cerwin Vega's "Earthquake" speaker system and immediately thought it sounded like a rocket - and took me a few minutes to figure out WHY I knew it sounded like a rocket.
In 2004, the management at Sun Microsystems terminated any more development on high-end processors and high-end servers. According to an article by The Register, Sun now sells re-branded Fujitsu servers as Sun's high-end servers. Fujitsu is an OEM for Sun.
Devlopment on the UltraSPARC V was terminated - Sun is still working on the "Rock" prcessor - sort of a Niagara designed for large multiprocessor machines. Sun realized several years ago that processors were hitting a wall on single thread performance (compare performance gains between 1996 to 2001 vs 2001 to 2006) and emphasized multicore designs. Sun has also done some nice work with the Opteron - that combined with the Niagara are two reasons why Sun's market share has been increasing recently.
A little background - the Comm Act of 1996 granted CLEC's the right to use the facilities of the ILEC's for offering telecom services. The telco's recently persuaded congress to rescind that regulation for newly developed high speed access. Shortly there-after, we started hearing about Google, et al freeloading on the Telco's.
What the Telco's want to do is to sell video content - provide VDSL service at a loss and make it up in profit on the video content. If Google has the same access to the consumers as the Telco's, they can put a lot of pressure on the Telco's prices, hence profits.
Turns out there is another thing limiting the Telcos attempts at marketing video - most localities already have cable companies paying franchise fees for providing video service - and the franchise regulations either prohibit competition or require the competitor to wire the entire locality to prevent cherry picking. The telco's have succceeded in getting a few states to overturn the franchise laws and are working on congress to overturn the laws nationwide - a big eff'ing mistake IMBO.
How about this -- treat the airplane just like a movie theater: no outside food/drinks allowed.
How about the case where you have kids with severe food allergies and virtually all of the airline food is loaded with allergens? (BTW, we also bring our popcorn to movies for the same reason.)
(it's where the C in CMOS comes from: composite, meaning both P and N type)
C stands for complemtary - originally used to describe a PNP and NPN on the output of an amplifier (the output sections of logic devices are indeed amplifiers).
The problem is that, as the inputs are transitioning between high and low voltages, BOTH transistor networks are (partially) conductive. This allows current to flow directly from the high-voltage rail to the low-voltage rail, with minimal resistance.
Well if you read TFA from the Union-Trib, the whole point was getting enough accuracy to see if the orbit of the moon followed the predictions of General Relativity exactly. A deviation from those predictions would mean that General Relativity needs amending. The beauty of this experiment is that it is relatively inexpensive - the reflector is already on the moon.
He [Stallman] also complains that Sun doesn't allow him to call his software an implementation of a standard unless he's 100% compliant with the standard. (Duh.) God forbid that Sun require that implementations of a standard actually implement the standard.
And of course GCC doesn't have any extensions of the C language standard....
Joerg Schilling has some choice words to say about the degree of POSIX compliance of GNU make and GNU tar.
I have fond memories of using that beast during my stay at Cal. Would be fun to be able to run some of the stuff that was on there, e.g. the original versions of SPICE, OJM Smith's POWERSYS and CAPSYS and dabble in COPMASS again.
Even more fun would be to get one of the SS-90's online (these were haunting the basement of Corey Hall in the early 70's).
Funny, just noticed in passing that IE development somewhat parallels that of MS-DOS - 1&2 were barely useable, 3 was the first fully-working one, 4 was a dog full of fluff and bugs, 5 was better, and 6 the best. Maybe there's a lesson there...)
You forgot that BOTH DOS and IE were bought from somewhere else under terms that basically fucked over the company that sold it to M$.
Maybe what I mean is not clear, so imagine a quad-core CPU. Your threads can use each core etc, etc.. On a single-core, why don't you "cut" your CPU into 4 "virtual cores" so for example one thread that would act like it's only using one "virtual core" would actually be using 25% of the CPU time slices?
The rational for multi-core CPU's is that 4 slow cores can do the same amount of work as a fast single core system and consume less power. A related rationale is that you can't get a single core system that's 4X faster per core than a 4 core system. With those two exceptions, there is nothing to prevent what you're proposing.
The CDC-6000 series peripheral processor had an interesting twist on the virtual core - the ALU was time-sliced amongst 10 register sets so that it appeared to be 10 processors. The Sun Niagara does something similar - each of the 8 cores has 4 register sets, allowing for very rapid switching between threads. Recently saw a usenet posting stating that a single T2000 performed twice as fast as a dual Xeon box - and the Niagara CPU uses less power than a single Xeon.
ACE was formed in 1991. At that time the 386 was dead and the 486 was available at 50MHz.
You're a bit misleading there - IIRC, the 50 MHz 486's weren't avaliable until the end of 1991 and the 386 wasn't yet dead - as late as 1993, many (US) government contracts prohibited the purchase of 486 machines (you wanted speed - well try a 33 MHz 386/387). And except for the 386 ports of UNIX, the only software that supported the 32 bit mode of the 386 ISA were the 386 DOS extenders.
The RISC machines of that era could run rings around the Intel machines - MIPS was a strong contender (this was before MIPS became part of SGI) and HP was shipping 66 MHz PA-RISC systems at the end of 1991.
The album by Giles, Giles and Fripp was released in 1968 (a year before "In the Court of the Crimson King" and had one song that was written in late 1965.
At the time the US got involved with the war in Europe (and the ONLY reason that the US formally declared war on Germany was that Germany declared war first - the US attention was focused on Japan) - Hitler was a piker compared to Stalin - and look who we allied ourselves with... Remember that Stalin had killed off millions of Ukrainians before Hitler even came to power.
For the history impaired - the European theater of WW2 started when Poland was invaded by Germany AND the Soviet Union. Unfortunately the war became pretty much a certainty when Europeans decided that it was better appeasing Hitler than standing up to him over Czechoslovakia in early 1938.
Do you really want to play a game of thermonuclear war?
Using whose thermonuclear weapons? Unless you have had a lot of experience in designing and building these weapons, you would probably want to test first - and testing isn't something that is easy to hide.
Even with nuclear warheads, you still need to get reasonably close to your target. Preferred method for ICBM's is inertial (or astro-inertial) guidance - which is tricky enough that I doubt if there is even a dozen organizations capable of producing such a beast. The rest of the missile is childs play.
The Americans changed the rules of war to win WW2( according to most estimates Japan had 80% of its army intact when the atom bomb was dropped. In a conventional invasion of Japan the US would have lost). The US knew to fight by the rules would lead to defeat and so do America's opponents so they are fighting to rules which benefit them specifically small unit actions behind enemy lines and with no clear rear areas which the enemy can hit. And this is a war America is losing. America can be as pigheaded as Japan and finally surrender or make peace right now.
"In a conventional invasion of Japan" the US losses would have been horrendous and the Japanese losses even more so - read up on what happend in Okinawa. While the Japanese army had most of their personnel, they certainly did not have the supplies (food, ammunition and fuel) to sustain a long defense.
The Japanese were in no position to complain about treatment of their civilians - their record in China shows that they could be as brutal as the Nazi's.
On a side note, the current push it toward multi-core CPUs.
One of the selling points for Sun's Niagara is that a single Niagara processor can do the work of a bunch of single core servers - for about the same amount of power as one single core server.
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That be the one.
The other being Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - a ship useful for both waging war and conducting science - having said that, Star Trek aged much better than Voyage.
If they don't own the right of way that their network uses to access their customers, then it isn't just "their" network. Because they undoubtedly make use of an easement and/or franchise for the right-of-way, they can't do anything they want.
If you want to go to an extreme property rights viewpoint- I'd have the right to tear up the Comcast cable line where it went on my property.
If Comcast was a dial-up ISP, the judge would have a valid point. What you're forgetting is that Comcast uses cable and that is subject to the terms of the franchise agreement with whatever government entity granted the franchise to provide cable service. In many cases, they are the only choice for high speed internet connection, which makes finding another ISP a bit difficult.
I remember hearing the engine tests at Rocketdyne's Santa Susanna test facility when living in Thousand Oaks about 15 miles away. The whole house was shaking and it was impressive hearing the sliding glass doors rattle away and these were puny compared to the SRM's used on the Shuttle. About 10 years later I head Cerwin Vega's "Earthquake" speaker system and immediately thought it sounded like a rocket - and took me a few minutes to figure out WHY I knew it sounded like a rocket.
Devlopment on the UltraSPARC V was terminated - Sun is still working on the "Rock" prcessor - sort of a Niagara designed for large multiprocessor machines. Sun realized several years ago that processors were hitting a wall on single thread performance (compare performance gains between 1996 to 2001 vs 2001 to 2006) and emphasized multicore designs. Sun has also done some nice work with the Opteron - that combined with the Niagara are two reasons why Sun's market share has been increasing recently.
IIRC, OS-9 was called such because it was designed to run on the MC6809 - and a version was ported to the Radio Shack Color Computer.
What the Telco's want to do is to sell video content - provide VDSL service at a loss and make it up in profit on the video content. If Google has the same access to the consumers as the Telco's, they can put a lot of pressure on the Telco's prices, hence profits.
Turns out there is another thing limiting the Telcos attempts at marketing video - most localities already have cable companies paying franchise fees for providing video service - and the franchise regulations either prohibit competition or require the competitor to wire the entire locality to prevent cherry picking. The telco's have succceeded in getting a few states to overturn the franchise laws and are working on congress to overturn the laws nationwide - a big eff'ing mistake IMBO.
How about the case where you have kids with severe food allergies and virtually all of the airline food is loaded with allergens? (BTW, we also bring our popcorn to movies for the same reason.)
C stands for complemtary - originally used to describe a PNP and NPN on the output of an amplifier (the output sections of logic devices are indeed amplifiers).
The problem is that, as the inputs are transitioning between high and low voltages, BOTH transistor networks are (partially) conductive. This allows current to flow directly from the high-voltage rail to the low-voltage rail, with minimal resistance.
Normally called contention or shoot-through.
Well if you read TFA from the Union-Trib, the whole point was getting enough accuracy to see if the orbit of the moon followed the predictions of General Relativity exactly. A deviation from those predictions would mean that General Relativity needs amending. The beauty of this experiment is that it is relatively inexpensive - the reflector is already on the moon.
And of course GCC doesn't have any extensions of the C language standard....
Joerg Schilling has some choice words to say about the degree of POSIX compliance of GNU make and GNU tar.
Even more fun would be to get one of the SS-90's online (these were haunting the basement of Corey Hall in the early 70's).
You forgot that BOTH DOS and IE were bought from somewhere else under terms that basically fucked over the company that sold it to M$.
Amplifying your point, not disagreeing with it.
The SP in Sprint comes from Southern Pacific, since SPrint started off as SP's telephone system to support railroad operations.
IIRC, the cores are based on the US-IIi's as used in the Ultra 5 and Ultra 10. They are also coupled with a crossbar switch to 4 banks of DDR2 RAM.
The rational for multi-core CPU's is that 4 slow cores can do the same amount of work as a fast single core system and consume less power. A related rationale is that you can't get a single core system that's 4X faster per core than a 4 core system. With those two exceptions, there is nothing to prevent what you're proposing.
The CDC-6000 series peripheral processor had an interesting twist on the virtual core - the ALU was time-sliced amongst 10 register sets so that it appeared to be 10 processors. The Sun Niagara does something similar - each of the 8 cores has 4 register sets, allowing for very rapid switching between threads. Recently saw a usenet posting stating that a single T2000 performed twice as fast as a dual Xeon box - and the Niagara CPU uses less power than a single Xeon.
It was good.
Remember that the PA-RISC was designed by hp, and not the printer company with the remnants of Compaq and DEC.
You're a bit misleading there - IIRC, the 50 MHz 486's weren't avaliable until the end of 1991 and the 386 wasn't yet dead - as late as 1993, many (US) government contracts prohibited the purchase of 486 machines (you wanted speed - well try a 33 MHz 386/387). And except for the 386 ports of UNIX, the only software that supported the 32 bit mode of the 386 ISA were the 386 DOS extenders.
The RISC machines of that era could run rings around the Intel machines - MIPS was a strong contender (this was before MIPS became part of SGI) and HP was shipping 66 MHz PA-RISC systems at the end of 1991.
Makes me wonder who will be next? Pete Sinfield?
At the time the US got involved with the war in Europe (and the ONLY reason that the US formally declared war on Germany was that Germany declared war first - the US attention was focused on Japan) - Hitler was a piker compared to Stalin - and look who we allied ourselves with... Remember that Stalin had killed off millions of Ukrainians before Hitler even came to power.
For the history impaired - the European theater of WW2 started when Poland was invaded by Germany AND the Soviet Union. Unfortunately the war became pretty much a certainty when Europeans decided that it was better appeasing Hitler than standing up to him over Czechoslovakia in early 1938.
Using whose thermonuclear weapons? Unless you have had a lot of experience in designing and building these weapons, you would probably want to test first - and testing isn't something that is easy to hide.
Even with nuclear warheads, you still need to get reasonably close to your target. Preferred method for ICBM's is inertial (or astro-inertial) guidance - which is tricky enough that I doubt if there is even a dozen organizations capable of producing such a beast. The rest of the missile is childs play.
"In a conventional invasion of Japan" the US losses would have been horrendous and the Japanese losses even more so - read up on what happend in Okinawa. While the Japanese army had most of their personnel, they certainly did not have the supplies (food, ammunition and fuel) to sustain a long defense.
The Japanese were in no position to complain about treatment of their civilians - their record in China shows that they could be as brutal as the Nazi's.
One of the selling points for Sun's Niagara is that a single Niagara processor can do the work of a bunch of single core servers - for about the same amount of power as one single core server.