CHANGE THE LAW. Keeping the bible in Latin worked only for the priests and keeping the law in legal speak is working only for the lawyers.
Sigh. Another round of religion-bashing.
As long as w're on the subject of religion...
When Scandinavia converted to the Lutheran church, the mother's duties included instructing their children on the teachings of the church. In order to do this, women had to be able to read, which meant that almost all girls had to have some sort of schooling. One consequence was that the women started having roles that went beyond just being wives and mothers.
To get back on topic, a lot of the health care "reform" legislation is deliberately written to be obscure.
It only takes a 4C temperature rise to permanently damage the cornea. FWIW, that is the #1 concern for RF exposure. The blood flow in the rest of the body will do a nice job of conducting heat away.
The RF from the HERF gun could damage the corneas of someone nearby, and that someone may not necessarily be the driver of the car behind. In that case, the user of the HERF gun could be facing some serious criminal charges as well as getting their asses sued off in court.
The OpenRD system (SheevaPlug with more I/O) looks pretty tasty as well. Do wish there was an OpenBSD port for the OpenRD as it would make for a darn good firewall/router.
On my first computer, c: was the left hand Qume DT-8 reading the bottom side of a double-sided single density disk (a: being the normal side and e: for a DSDD disk.
The first indications that I saw of cloud to ionosphere discharges was in QST in the 1980's - someone had shown a very good correlation between major T-storm activity and sporadic E skip above 50MHz. When I saw the first reports of sprites in the mid-1990's, my first thought was "this explains sporadic E-skip".
The secret to the MacBook battery life is that the battery is "built-in". This eliminates the volume and weight taken up by the battery housing, connectors and battery holder. Downside is if the battery goes flat, it requires a trip to an Apple repair depot. A minor help is that the MacBooks use LED backlighting, which is a bit more efficient that the CCFL lighting used on earlier laptops. Yet another help is that MacOS X supposedly has better power management than Windows.
FWIW, my first laptop is one of the new 13" MacBook Pro's and battery life was a big selling point. Another reason is that MacOS X is much more Unix friendly (well, duh) than Windows.
You're probably on to something here. Without a decent battery life, the whole netbook concept doesn't make a lot of sense. Along those lines, my first laptop purchase was the 13" MacBook Pro since it was small and has a long battery life.
Good, concise explanation. Few people understand that utility capacity (generation, transmission and distribution) costs real money. As you said, it would be a different situation if the person was totally off the grid.
I can understand your unwillingness to completely give up your A/C. OTOH, there are things that can reduce consumption at peak times, simplest is setting the thermostat higher on peak hours, lower during off peak hours. It may take just a few per cent reduction in peak loads to avert rolling blackouts. A bit more involved means is to have a lot of thermal mass in a well insulated house, cooling the house at night and letting it warm a bit during the day.
A fundamental difference between MRI and CT is that computing the MRI image involves (at least in some cases) a 2-D FFT. While signal to noise ratio is an issue, the processing is not an ill-posed problem.
There's a significant difference in brown-ness from generating electricity with fossil fuels. A state of the art natural gas fired combined cycle plant will produce a lot less CO2 per kWhr than an aging coal fired plant.
This subject has been covered much better on the Trains.com forums with some very detailed explanations of why LD rail travel may not be as green as expected.
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Development of QDOS/86-DOS was done by Seattle Computer Products (SCP), not Microsoft. SCP was planning to do a clone of MP/M as well, but that was dropped when MS bought the rights to 86-DOS from SCP in mid-1981.
Some of the UNIX'isms in 86-DOS include "copy" instead of "pip", file sizes known to the byte, "con", "aux" and "prn" were treated as files, batch files executed by command.com.
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FWIW, 8800 was the original designation for the iAPX-432.
QDOS was renamed 86-DOS before rights were sold to M$.
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This actually started before MS got a hold of DOS. QDOS/86-DOS was pretty much a clone of CP/M with UNIX like features.
Several of the moon missions left corner reflector arrays for laser ranging. Seems to me that this is pretty good proof that something landed on the moon between 1969-72.
And his article isn't THAT compelling, but he does bring up a point that telcos and cablecos would like us to forget: their physical plant makes use of public roadways and rights of way to route their wiring to their customers. If they refuse to invest sufficiently in their networks to provide adequate service to all their customers without traffic shaping shenanigans, then government should replace them with someone else who will.
A very important point indeed. I remember with some amusement when Ted Turner was complaining about local governments interfering with his cable system and completely ignoring the fact that virtually all of his system was built on easements.
During the Battle of Midway, the Japanese captured several American aviators after they were shot down. The were tortured for information and were then tied to buckets and thrown overboard. Citation is the book "Shattered Sword".
During the battle for the Marianas, the Japanese had sent a sub with jars of bubonic plague infested fleas. Fortunately for Japan, the sub was sunk enroute, had it not been sunk, the US would most likely have retaliated with an all-out chemical and biological warfare against Japan.
Looks like you're forgetting that the European theater of WW2 started when Poland was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union. This was a few weeks after the Soviets kicked the Japanese asses out of Siberia.
This reminds of a thread on comp.arch this last week discussing COBOL and decimal arithmetic. One of the more interesting assertions was from Terje Mathisen (a very bright fellow), who claimed that PERL could do just about anything that COBOL could do. He's probably right, though he neglected that PERL looks like line noise (or a sendmail.cf file), while COBOL was designed to be read by humans.
My impression was that the core was not prompt critical before the scram rod insertion - though it is possible that the reactor was approaching that condition when the scram system was tripped.
The graphite moderator does lengthen the generation time a bit - certainly much longer than the case for the most common prompt critical reactors AKA nuclear weapons.
BTW, the TRIGA reactor was designed to operate prompt critical as much of the moderation took place in the fuel rods. I saw the TRIGA at Cal pulsed four times in one afternoon (as part of the NE-103 lab) - looked like a LARGE flashbulb going off in the reactor pool.
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CHANGE THE LAW. Keeping the bible in Latin worked only for the priests and keeping the law in legal speak is working only for the lawyers.
Sigh. Another round of religion-bashing.
As long as w're on the subject of religion...
When Scandinavia converted to the Lutheran church, the mother's duties included instructing their children on the teachings of the church. In order to do this, women had to be able to read, which meant that almost all girls had to have some sort of schooling. One consequence was that the women started having roles that went beyond just being wives and mothers.
To get back on topic, a lot of the health care "reform" legislation is deliberately written to be obscure.
It only takes a 4C temperature rise to permanently damage the cornea. FWIW, that is the #1 concern for RF exposure. The blood flow in the rest of the body will do a nice job of conducting heat away.
The RF from the HERF gun could damage the corneas of someone nearby, and that someone may not necessarily be the driver of the car behind. In that case, the user of the HERF gun could be facing some serious criminal charges as well as getting their asses sued off in court.
The OpenRD system (SheevaPlug with more I/O) looks pretty tasty as well. Do wish there was an OpenBSD port for the OpenRD as it would make for a darn good firewall/router.
On my first computer, c: was the left hand Qume DT-8 reading the bottom side of a double-sided single density disk (a: being the normal side and e: for a DSDD disk.
zip doesn't store permissions, only tar and cpio do, and probably some more obscure stuff too.
The version of zip that I'm using does preserve permissions and has options of how to handle uid's.
Your one of the few that pointed out that there are vast rare earth sources outside of China - one of the largest being in California.
The first indications that I saw of cloud to ionosphere discharges was in QST in the 1980's - someone had shown a very good correlation between major T-storm activity and sporadic E skip above 50MHz. When I saw the first reports of sprites in the mid-1990's, my first thought was "this explains sporadic E-skip".
FWIW, my first laptop is one of the new 13" MacBook Pro's and battery life was a big selling point. Another reason is that MacOS X is much more Unix friendly (well, duh) than Windows.
You're probably on to something here. Without a decent battery life, the whole netbook concept doesn't make a lot of sense. Along those lines, my first laptop purchase was the 13" MacBook Pro since it was small and has a long battery life.
Good, concise explanation. Few people understand that utility capacity (generation, transmission and distribution) costs real money. As you said, it would be a different situation if the person was totally off the grid.
I was thinking along similar lines when California was having rolling blackouts in the early aughties. Should be simple to implement.
I can understand your unwillingness to completely give up your A/C. OTOH, there are things that can reduce consumption at peak times, simplest is setting the thermostat higher on peak hours, lower during off peak hours. It may take just a few per cent reduction in peak loads to avert rolling blackouts. A bit more involved means is to have a lot of thermal mass in a well insulated house, cooling the house at night and letting it warm a bit during the day.
A fundamental difference between MRI and CT is that computing the MRI image involves (at least in some cases) a 2-D FFT. While signal to noise ratio is an issue, the processing is not an ill-posed problem.
This subject has been covered much better on the Trains.com forums with some very detailed explanations of why LD rail travel may not be as green as expected.
Some of the UNIX'isms in 86-DOS include "copy" instead of "pip", file sizes known to the byte, "con", "aux" and "prn" were treated as files, batch files executed by command.com.
QDOS was renamed 86-DOS before rights were sold to M$.
This actually started before MS got a hold of DOS. QDOS/86-DOS was pretty much a clone of CP/M with UNIX like features.
Several of the moon missions left corner reflector arrays for laser ranging. Seems to me that this is pretty good proof that something landed on the moon between 1969-72.
and park within walking distance of a rover sent up 3 years earlier.
I believe you mean lander not rover. The only means for moving a Surveyor would have been to fire up the braking rocket.
And his article isn't THAT compelling, but he does bring up a point that telcos and cablecos would like us to forget: their physical plant makes use of public roadways and rights of way to route their wiring to their customers. If they refuse to invest sufficiently in their networks to provide adequate service to all their customers without traffic shaping shenanigans, then government should replace them with someone else who will.
A very important point indeed. I remember with some amusement when Ted Turner was complaining about local governments interfering with his cable system and completely ignoring the fact that virtually all of his system was built on easements.
During the battle for the Marianas, the Japanese had sent a sub with jars of bubonic plague infested fleas. Fortunately for Japan, the sub was sunk enroute, had it not been sunk, the US would most likely have retaliated with an all-out chemical and biological warfare against Japan.
Looks like you're forgetting that the European theater of WW2 started when Poland was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union. This was a few weeks after the Soviets kicked the Japanese asses out of Siberia.
Some of the old codgers did call him on that.
The graphite moderator does lengthen the generation time a bit - certainly much longer than the case for the most common prompt critical reactors AKA nuclear weapons.
BTW, the TRIGA reactor was designed to operate prompt critical as much of the moderation took place in the fuel rods. I saw the TRIGA at Cal pulsed four times in one afternoon (as part of the NE-103 lab) - looked like a LARGE flashbulb going off in the reactor pool.