But what he spoke about doesn't preciselly follows the quote (really suggesting the chips were rather directly used) with which you started your post.
No, I just chose a single detail path to follow. All parts of the system were shipped out to various places. Reverse engineering of hardware, specifically the IBM mainframe chips, was done in Moscow. As I recall from his talks, this was significantly more difficult.
And yes, this was an IBM 360 mainframe, not the IBM PC/XT or PC/AT. Just a tiny* difference in hardware.
(More cynical types assume the Russians bought or stole US chips from the French or other too-helpful go-betweens.)
Back in the early '90s, one of my professors had come over from the USSR to teach Comp Sci. The local ACM chapter, at least a couple of times if not more, had him give a talk on the state of computing in Russia. This was exactly what he laid out. That shell companies were setup in France to lease IBM equipment (all you could do in those days for this very reason). The shell would fly-by-night the IBM to Russia where they would part it out. Notably, iirc, Romania was where they reverse engineered the machine code of the OS back into a somewhat usable assembly language. This, he would explain, was why all the really nasty viruses for PCs came from Romania - because the writers could eyeball instruction code and tell you what it was going to do. They also knew every crevice of the system, which became the advent of viruses hanging out in BIOS's and system clock memory.
He eventually became uncomfortable giving the talks and stopped, to my knowledge.
FTA, the employee had gone to the authorities, who were apparently already investigating them. Likely, they wired him. Which would be fully admissible.
Wouldn't higher reflectivity of the ocean lead to an increase in the heat absorption of CO2 in the atmosphere, being that a given reflected photon would have twice the chance of striking a CO2 molecule in the atmosphere?
You forgot the climactic live video satellite zoom in over Bad Guy's shoulder as he's sitting in a Sicily cafe clearly texting on whatever device paid the most for a product tie-in.
Having played both ME and ME2, and done a stint as a voice actor, I actually found the voices to be a little wooden. Now, that's not entirely a problem with the actor; they could be reading the line exactly as they're being told to.
It also has to do with both:
The Writers - for ME, the conversation options are somewhat circular; you come back to the same points, so even if the conversation took a bad turn with an NPC, when you exit the conversation that NPC may still say "Cheerio!" even though they were pissed a second ago. Doesn't happen in real life.
The Producers - the folks who (often) sit in the recording booth with the engineer while the actor reads the lines, to make sure they're done right. If a character says, "Fine." - are they fed up and trying to end the conversation, or did they just see someone who looks attractive? If the producer doesn't know where the writers were coming from, they will misdirect the actor. This is further complicated by the circuitous conversations that occur in games like Mass Effect.
As far as professions go, acting is certainly as art. It's not easy to get in front of a microphone and have a deeply connecting conversation with someone who isn't in the room. Without creating that connection, the acting sounds hollow and fake. Add to that, for commercials, talking about something you could care less about (Say, Coors beer or a car you would never drive or a store you would never shop in) and make it sound convincingly great, takes real talent.
The only problem here is that the companies that make up the RIAA and MPAA have put on a facade of being the producers of entertainment. It's a facade because they got into producing only after the fact, and usually what they produce can hardly be considered original or creative in any way. They are not artists.
Their original business model was distribution. The internet has opened up communication between any two people on the earth from the narrow confines of voice and fax to just about anything that can be digitized (music, images, etc, but not chairs, for example). Distribution has become a moot point, and the foundation of the business model of those companies has been yanked out from under them.
Pumping stuff into the ground that isn't normally there tends to give me the willies anymore. "Stick it where the sun don't shine!" isn't such a great solution, IMO.
Solution to variable renewable energy generation
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(wind generation — from individual sites — is hopelessly variable)
And easily solved with the use of Vanadium batteries. I'll continue to signal boost this as long as there are people who think there is no solution to variable renewable energy generation.
Then they came for the boobies and I said nothing because I was a puritanical closet pervert.
LOL. You're trying to make a rallying cry out of this? One vendor on two platforms, and you're crying like someone busted open the case and burned the Declaration of Independence.
You want boobies? Try Google. As long as two people can connect computers, you'll have your boobies.
Makes me think it'll have the same destiny as that TV show marketing gimmick where they setup little LED robots giving the finger that scared the bejeezus out of Boston and other cities because you could see the D batteries in it.
Due to the enforced end-to-end DRM nature of HDMI, switching components can be a pain in the ass. I've had no end of trouble getting HDMI switching correct. It seems that if a component is already on before my receiver is up, or switched to that component, that HDMI won't negotiate correctly and often requires the whole chain to power off and power back on.
Not that it prevents the piracy that HDMI exists solely to prevent...
When laptop batteries began exploding left and right if you looked at them wrong, I gave my father a call.
He worked for many years at the Lithium Corporation of America, where they mined and refined Lithium ore for all sorts of purposes (shoe rubber, axle grease, pool chlorine, etc, etc..).
I asked him about the exploding batteries, expecting a tirade on how bad manufacturing was to blame, rather than lithium.
Instead, he surprised me with a rant about the old-old lithium batteries - small things about half the size of a double-A battery - used in (pro-)photography flash units. "They banned those from passenger flights because if you hit one with a hammer, it would go off like a shotgun shell. The whole point of using lithium in a battery is because it releases stored energy quickly, to recharge the flash." He seemed a bit shaken and a little surprised that one of those exploding batteries hadn't taken down an airliner.
Yeah, I thought the same thing. Being that several years ago my coworkers determined that using sftp (or ftp through stunnel? - I forget) added slight compression as well as encryption over regular ftp. So, even though a secure transfer was unnecessary (public weather data) and despite the cpu hit, we'd actually be saving quite a lot in bandwidth since the data was on the order of terabytes.
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But what he spoke about doesn't preciselly follows the quote (really suggesting the chips were rather directly used) with which you started your post.
No, I just chose a single detail path to follow. All parts of the system were shipped out to various places. Reverse engineering of hardware, specifically the IBM mainframe chips, was done in Moscow. As I recall from his talks, this was significantly more difficult.
And yes, this was an IBM 360 mainframe, not the IBM PC/XT or PC/AT. Just a tiny* difference in hardware.
* - By tiny I mean huge.
I tried with "suddenoutbreakofganesh" but apparently it wasn't popular... :)
(More cynical types assume the Russians bought or stole US chips from the French or other too-helpful go-betweens.)
Back in the early '90s, one of my professors had come over from the USSR to teach Comp Sci. The local ACM chapter, at least a couple of times if not more, had him give a talk on the state of computing in Russia. This was exactly what he laid out. That shell companies were setup in France to lease IBM equipment (all you could do in those days for this very reason). The shell would fly-by-night the IBM to Russia where they would part it out. Notably, iirc, Romania was where they reverse engineered the machine code of the OS back into a somewhat usable assembly language. This, he would explain, was why all the really nasty viruses for PCs came from Romania - because the writers could eyeball instruction code and tell you what it was going to do. They also knew every crevice of the system, which became the advent of viruses hanging out in BIOS's and system clock memory.
He eventually became uncomfortable giving the talks and stopped, to my knowledge.
Mine also had one from TX. Isn't there a big spamhaus in TX?
FTA, the employee had gone to the authorities, who were apparently already investigating them. Likely, they wired him. Which would be fully admissible.
The military is facing a number of challenges, [...] accessing national air space [...]
Um, yeah. How about 'no'.
with Bing specializing in transactions like plane tickets
Huh?!? A search engine that specializes in plane tickets...
RIGHT.
Wouldn't higher reflectivity of the ocean lead to an increase in the heat absorption of CO2 in the atmosphere, being that a given reflected photon would have twice the chance of striking a CO2 molecule in the atmosphere?
You forgot the climactic live video satellite zoom in over Bad Guy's shoulder as he's sitting in a Sicily cafe clearly texting on whatever device paid the most for a product tie-in.
It will also butter your muffin.
Having played both ME and ME2, and done a stint as a voice actor, I actually found the voices to be a little wooden. Now, that's not entirely a problem with the actor; they could be reading the line exactly as they're being told to.
It also has to do with both:
The Writers - for ME, the conversation options are somewhat circular; you come back to the same points, so even if the conversation took a bad turn with an NPC, when you exit the conversation that NPC may still say "Cheerio!" even though they were pissed a second ago. Doesn't happen in real life.
The Producers - the folks who (often) sit in the recording booth with the engineer while the actor reads the lines, to make sure they're done right. If a character says, "Fine." - are they fed up and trying to end the conversation, or did they just see someone who looks attractive? If the producer doesn't know where the writers were coming from, they will misdirect the actor. This is further complicated by the circuitous conversations that occur in games like Mass Effect.
As far as professions go, acting is certainly as art. It's not easy to get in front of a microphone and have a deeply connecting conversation with someone who isn't in the room. Without creating that connection, the acting sounds hollow and fake. Add to that, for commercials, talking about something you could care less about (Say, Coors beer or a car you would never drive or a store you would never shop in) and make it sound convincingly great, takes real talent.
The only problem here is that the companies that make up the RIAA and MPAA have put on a facade of being the producers of entertainment. It's a facade because they got into producing only after the fact, and usually what they produce can hardly be considered original or creative in any way. They are not artists.
Their original business model was distribution. The internet has opened up communication between any two people on the earth from the narrow confines of voice and fax to just about anything that can be digitized (music, images, etc, but not chairs, for example). Distribution has become a moot point, and the foundation of the business model of those companies has been yanked out from under them.
First, good for Floyd for kicking back.
Second, why not just limit Pink Floyd sales to whole albums? So hard?
Pumping stuff into the ground that isn't normally there tends to give me the willies anymore. "Stick it where the sun don't shine!" isn't such a great solution, IMO.
Besides which, why not just build Vanadium batteries or invest in carbon nanotube ultra-capacitors (which could have direct benefit to mobile energy storage)?
Yes! In Soviet Russia.. oh nevermind.
(wind generation — from individual sites — is hopelessly variable)
And easily solved with the use of Vanadium batteries. I'll continue to signal boost this as long as there are people who think there is no solution to variable renewable energy generation.
Then they came for the boobies and I said nothing because I was a puritanical closet pervert.
LOL. You're trying to make a rallying cry out of this? One vendor on two platforms, and you're crying like someone busted open the case and burned the Declaration of Independence.
You want boobies? Try Google. As long as two people can connect computers, you'll have your boobies.
The only people up in arms are sleazy dudes out to make a quick buck off of someone else's boobies.
They've had their day and nothing of value has been lost.
DieSQL: The Sequel!
Makes me think it'll have the same destiny as that TV show marketing gimmick where they setup little LED robots giving the finger that scared the bejeezus out of Boston and other cities because you could see the D batteries in it.
Due to the enforced end-to-end DRM nature of HDMI, switching components can be a pain in the ass. I've had no end of trouble getting HDMI switching correct. It seems that if a component is already on before my receiver is up, or switched to that component, that HDMI won't negotiate correctly and often requires the whole chain to power off and power back on.
Not that it prevents the piracy that HDMI exists solely to prevent...
Where In The World Is Ned Ryerson?
BING!
When laptop batteries began exploding left and right if you looked at them wrong, I gave my father a call.
He worked for many years at the Lithium Corporation of America, where they mined and refined Lithium ore for all sorts of purposes (shoe rubber, axle grease, pool chlorine, etc, etc..).
I asked him about the exploding batteries, expecting a tirade on how bad manufacturing was to blame, rather than lithium.
Instead, he surprised me with a rant about the old-old lithium batteries - small things about half the size of a double-A battery - used in (pro-)photography flash units. "They banned those from passenger flights because if you hit one with a hammer, it would go off like a shotgun shell. The whole point of using lithium in a battery is because it releases stored energy quickly, to recharge the flash." He seemed a bit shaken and a little surprised that one of those exploding batteries hadn't taken down an airliner.
Time to buy stock in any company that sells lens cleaning kits.
Yeah, I thought the same thing. Being that several years ago my coworkers determined that using sftp (or ftp through stunnel? - I forget) added slight compression as well as encryption over regular ftp. So, even though a secure transfer was unnecessary (public weather data) and despite the cpu hit, we'd actually be saving quite a lot in bandwidth since the data was on the order of terabytes.
The best reference to this I could find was this wikipedia article.