Well, being slightly technically savvy myself, I'll point out that it's actually the underlying phsyics of a copper wire, plus the existing POTS architecture that limited things to "56k". Not to mention that the number is 99.99999% marketing hype, and practical use never could realize more than a slight and brief increase over the previous 33.6k... which itself was fairly heavy voodoo.
I am guessing that in your original post, "slightly technically savvy" was enclosed in a <font size="-3"> tag.
(And yes, I work in the game industry so I know these things. At Activision, the difference between Battlezone running in software at 30 fps versus Battlezone running with hardware acceleration at 60+ fps was astonishing.)
You have a very significant mis-understanding of pre-emptive multi-tasking. There is no situation where a locked process cannot be killed on a single CPU system but can be on a multiple CPU system.
That's all good in theory, but in practice it can be damned hard to kill an errant Win32 application on a single CPU box when, for example, the errant application is hooked into the same message processing loop as your explorer shell process and you can't get a Ctrl-Alt-Del in edgewise.
And before the *ix/X/KDE folks smile too broadly about this, I routinely have the same thing happen in KOffice applications when I scroll through the font selector drop-down a bit too zealously. XFree86 and xfstt decide to have a CPU party and other X clients are not invited (sniff, sniff).
My point being that a pre-emptive multi-tasking O/S is no guarantee you'll make it out of a (near-)infinite loop alive with your original session intact.
The "use 'fewer' for counting, 'less' for measurements" rule is really pretty obscure and useless. Only the truly pedantic care about that rule. On the other hand...
Something I am surprised nobody has brought up yet is that the frequency of noise which a drive produces is as important (if not more) than the absolute sound pressure level of the noise.
Human ears are more sensitive to midrange sounds and high-frequency noise tends to be more grating than lower frequency "whooshes" at the same sound pressure level.
Much like higher revving engines, higher RPM drives naturally produce higher-frequency noise, so 37dB on a 15k RPM drive (e.g. newest Seagate Cheetah) will typically be more noticeable than 37dB on a 7200rpm drive (older IBM 75GXP drives).
Be aware that BMW is notorious for invoking its right to void your warranty based on what's recorded in the engine log: over-revs (on E36 M3's, this one was a killer in both the warranty and valvetrain sense), incorrect (overzealous) break-in period, etc.
Increasingly, higher-end vehicles are coming on the market with steering, brakes, throttle, etc. that are completely controlled by electronic sensors and other "drive-by-wire" technologies.
Hopefully said systems have a Lithium battery back-up that's more reliable than my PalmPilot's.
If you think about Windows NT the console is highly secure (i.e. an employee without administrative privs. has a hard time making any modification to their system without blowing it away).
In summary, the ability of processes with LOCALSYSTEM privileges to interact with the desktop (coupled with Windows' insecure message processing) makes compromise by an underprivileged console user possible.
I don't see this as a step toward MIT becoming tuition free.
If anything, they are reinforcing the cachet of the MIT diploma by effectively stating, "our course materials are only a small part of the picture."
Interesting move, and probably a challenge to Ivy League schools and other prestigious educational institutions to prove that their tuition pays for more than lectures and handouts.
I am replying pre-emptively to dissuade the AC's who would otherwise reply to you and point out that your post should not have been modded funny because this innovation would not prevent fork() bombing because it involves spawning threads and not processes.
I am further replying pre-emptively to dissuade the AC's who would otherwise reply to me and point out my egregious abuse of run-on sentences.
I am further replying pre-emptively to dissuade the AC's who would otherwise reply to me and point out my egregious abuse of +1 bonus.
I am further replying pre-emptively to dissuade the AC's who would mod this post down as off-topic because they do not get the parallel allusion to fork-bombing.
Probably a reasonable analysis for tech goods that can really be considered assets in the revenue generating sense (i.e. capital equipment). I am not sure this is the case for e.g. a previous-generation video card, though, where finding the right buyer is everything.
Once you get a large number of images, size matters. I have 10+GB of D30 images. It means you have to have a good backup solution (read: not CD-ROM).
Sure, but with IDE storage approaching $1/gigabyte, all of the sudden a 3MB image doesn't seem that large when you can house roughly 35,000 of them on a disk.
And as far as back up goes, you can just buy another drive!
Obviously this guy is just describing Christopher Guest's next project, a follow-on to the Waiting for Guffman/Best in Show series with Eugene Levy starring as the general at Tewksbury.
Needle grooves are not just squiggly lines like waveforms in your copy of WinRecord. The groove itself is going to be v-shaped, and can swing the needle both inboard and outboard, as well as rotate it slightly.
I don't understand how this rules out the recovery of some audio signal with his method.
Viewed from above, you can visually follow the curve of the hillside of a richly textured canyon, even if you can't make out the exact topographical (altitude) changes.
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People aren't in the dark about technology, they're in the dark about unuseful or economically impractical technology.
Do you really have a driver's license? Color me scared shitless.
You have neglected Uhrmacher's Theorem, which states that every new technological development will find first application in gaming and pornography.
Is the "nv" driver that XFree86-4.2.1 knows about unaccelerated?
Let's all brainstorm the ways in which Clearchannel Entertainment will sanction any radio station who broadcasts unadulterated CD quality cuts.
he's building evidence of his being a reformed pirate ... perhaps for some future early release hearing
And before the *ix/X/KDE folks smile too broadly about this, I routinely have the same thing happen in KOffice applications when I scroll through the font selector drop-down a bit too zealously. XFree86 and xfstt decide to have a CPU party and other X clients are not invited (sniff, sniff).
My point being that a pre-emptive multi-tasking O/S is no guarantee you'll make it out of a (near-)infinite loop alive with your original session intact.
Something I am surprised nobody has brought up yet is that the frequency of noise which a drive produces is as important (if not more) than the absolute sound pressure level of the noise.
Human ears are more sensitive to midrange sounds and high-frequency noise tends to be more grating than lower frequency "whooshes" at the same sound pressure level.
Much like higher revving engines, higher RPM drives naturally produce higher-frequency noise, so 37dB on a 15k RPM drive (e.g. newest Seagate Cheetah) will typically be more noticeable than 37dB on a 7200rpm drive (older IBM 75GXP drives).
Like the poster said, these events are logged.
Be aware that BMW is notorious for invoking its right to void your warranty based on what's recorded in the engine log: over-revs (on E36 M3's, this one was a killer in both the warranty and valvetrain sense), incorrect (overzealous) break-in period, etc.
Increasingly, higher-end vehicles are coming on the market with steering, brakes, throttle, etc. that are completely controlled by electronic sensors and other "drive-by-wire" technologies.
Hopefully said systems have a Lithium battery back-up that's more reliable than my PalmPilot's.
In summary, the ability of processes with LOCALSYSTEM privileges to interact with the desktop (coupled with Windows' insecure message processing) makes compromise by an underprivileged console user possible.
I don't see this as a step toward MIT becoming tuition free.
If anything, they are reinforcing the cachet of the MIT diploma by effectively stating, "our course materials are only a small part of the picture."
Interesting move, and probably a challenge to Ivy League schools and other prestigious educational institutions to prove that their tuition pays for more than lectures and handouts.
I am replying pre-emptively to dissuade the AC's who would otherwise reply to you and point out that your post should not have been modded funny because this innovation would not prevent fork() bombing because it involves spawning threads and not processes.
I am further replying pre-emptively to dissuade the AC's who would otherwise reply to me and point out my egregious abuse of run-on sentences.
I am further replying pre-emptively to dissuade the AC's who would otherwise reply to me and point out my egregious abuse of +1 bonus.
I am further replying pre-emptively to dissuade the AC's who would mod this post down as off-topic because they do not get the parallel allusion to fork-bombing.
Isn't this just the new name for IIS?
Probably a reasonable analysis for tech goods that can really be considered assets in the revenue generating sense (i.e. capital equipment). I am not sure this is the case for e.g. a previous-generation video card, though, where finding the right buyer is everything.
And as far as back up goes, you can just buy another drive!
Failed saving throw versus unemployment.
Nice troll.
Obviously this guy is just describing Christopher Guest's next project, a follow-on to the Waiting for Guffman/Best in Show series with Eugene Levy starring as the general at Tewksbury.
Viewed from above, you can visually follow the curve of the hillside of a richly textured canyon, even if you can't make out the exact topographical (altitude) changes.