IBM bought Sequent in '99. (I'm an ex-IBMer who transfered to Beaverton right after the sale, and it's absolutely terrible to see what IBM did to the Sequent culture.)
Yeah but at least Hayes *invented* the patent and used it to actually create product instead of being a Johnny-come-lately shake down artist.
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Yes.
I'm a BIOS developer and spend lots of long hours in a very noisy machine room hunched over prototype machines will all sorts of fan and other noise around... My iPod is small enough to drop in my shirt pocket which is a good thing because the amount of hanging cable to my ears is much shorter than a larger device on my belt (think about hazard getting caught in fans, etc).
Also the battery life (10 hours) is long enough that I can go all day on a major debug bender and not worry about my tunes dying right about the time I get to an interesting problem.
Also having multiple CD-RWs means I've got multiple CDs floating around the lab that I need to protect from scratches or from other people clipping, etc.
I may develop PC hardware, but I love my iPod (and yes... the iPod was enough for me to go out and buy a G4 PowerMac)
Nobody has mentioned yet this little nugget: If the universe is a computer then we are but small little threads of the Earth process. And we have no such thing as free will... just private member variables that we're not aware of.
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And my guess would be they have three bootable setups: a mask ROM of version 1.0 flight software, and two flash images.
The hardware first tries to boot flash image 1, if that fails then it tries flash image 2, and finally if that fails it falls back to the mask ROM image.
I've frequently gotten into heated discussions with my science-minded friends because I refuse to totally discount astrology.
I think the whole "Pluto is influencing your personality" stuff is crap, but the informal evidence suggests that "Sun Signs" are not totally BS.
Think about it... "Sun Signs" are based around the Sun's position, which also influences our length-of-day and seasons and temperatures. It's plausable that length of days, seasons and temps can influence an embryo's development. So our astrology friends could have valid observations but just be totally wrong on the causation.
Hell... I'll even buy that the moon (full and otherwise) affects people physiologically and mentally.
Or if they've been really cheap they've had a lapsed contract for a while....
First a power supply died and nobody cared... then a disk crashed and nobody cared... then a memory chip failed and nobody cared. Then thet finally lost redundency and finally somebody cared.
Anything promulgated by Disney, Sony, Warner, etc will be "Future Fantasy" and hence not taxed. Anything release by anybody else that's even remotely scifi will be.:-(
Come on... just because a few lines are identical doesn't mean they're copied. How many people on slashdot have written: for (i=0 ; i < 8 ; i++) {
if (array[i]) {
return(array[i]);
} }
Hundreds? Thousands? Remember from previous GaTech/. stories that their "cheater detector" doesn't care about variable names...
Just because me and someone else have identical blocks of code doesn't mean we collaborated or copied.
And finally, as a professional comp sci guy I spend lots of my time figuring out how we can reuse someone else's code.... I hate co-ops that want to reinvent the wheel instead of using a library routine...
And as Dennis Miller says, "the human herd has always found a way to thin itself". Parents that are overprotective used to produce children that couldn't survive on their own, who subsequently [fell from cliffs|abducted by local pervert|abducted by local lion|didn't realize that passing out was natures way of saying 'stop drinking'] and didn't reproduce.
Devices such as these reduce selection pressure on humans and as such are a bad long term thing.
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While checking out the iPod in the local CompUSA the salesdroid was nice enough to give me the URL for EphPod and I splurged and bought it. After a week of being frustrated with EphPod while also *loving* the design and user interface of the iPod I headed back to CompUSA.
Mac OS X intrigued me... I'd owned a cheap Quadra back in the early 90's and couldn't stand the lack of a command prompt. OS X seemed to address a lot of the earlier issues I had with Macs, so I walked out of there with a new 933Mhz G4 and a 17" studio display.
So, yes, people are buying Macs due to the iPod. (that's what happens when you have yearly bonus money burning a hole in your pocket...)
and it was obvious that he picked up standing while holding onto something (i.e. the muscle coordination involved) before he picked up "standing while counterbalancing gravity. He would stand next to his toybox while comptemplating which toy to grab... then he'd let go off the toybox to grab a toy and fall down. You could see that he had *no idea* of why he fell down initially.
So yes... I find it quite believable that gravity is modeled in the brain separately from kinematics and that therefore new kinematic skills (like learning to catch in 0-g) have a hard time disengaging the gravity model.
I've known a couple of Catahoulas that were doggy masters of technology. One was a self-appointed protector of people and nothing would stand in his way observing us.
This camera system would confuse him for about 15 minutes. He'd quickly learn to associate the "click" with success. They he'd be standing in the camera turning his head, dropping stuff, you name it, until he heard the click. And then he'll be right back to doing what he wants to do. Of course if that didn't work, eating the door would be an option.:-)
The protesters take the unreasonable position that no risk is acceptable. If they led their lives by this standard they wouldn't get dental X-rays and they wouldn't live anyplace with granite bedrock. (Granite is radioactive in case you didn't know that...)
If Cassini had reentered the odds say that it would have hit the ocean. Plus the plutonium is in ceramic form that likely would make it to the sea floor more or less intact.
Plus you make the fault in assuming that all NASA missions (and all aspects of those missions) are treated the same as regards to safeguards against failure. I'm sure NASA looks at "what's the worst that could happen if this fails" for all the scenarios. Therefore the launch of a relatively small sub-$1bln part of a series mostly-nontoxic satellite didn't receive as much redundency than a multibillion long-term one-of-a-kind toxic subcomponent probe.
Actually that's Nutrasweet... it looks like sugar, but isn't.
Anyone with a clue realizes that for real protection this would have to be done in hardware, so they throw this "open source" buzzword fragment in there to make people think they're being reasonable.
There *are* open-source hardware efforts, but including them in the law would be too close to real sugar.
Just think folks... these 34 bytes would be subject to the SSSCA. Which means it would be illegal unless it incorporated another 3 megabytes of protection.
But also the EAA has a large membership percentage that are very talented aerospace professionals by day, who are also aerospace fanatics for fun by night.
There are also a small number of planes that probably would attract a large enough following that stand a chance at being kitted if the blueprints suddenly came available... a couple of legendary WWII warbirds immediately pop into my mind: F-4U Corsair, P-38 Lightning and the P-51 Mustang.
I have no idea about the legal status of the current owners of the F-4U or P-38. Sadly I don't think the P-51 will be among those up for release since as of the late-80s Piper owned the assets of the former North American Aviation and had been revamping the P-51 design as a South American counter-insurgency ground attack plane.
And based upon the flyers I know, I can tell you that the coolness factor of flying into Oshkosh in a shiny new P-38 would attract a lot of manpower.
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IBM bought Sequent in '99.
(I'm an ex-IBMer who transfered to Beaverton right after the sale, and it's absolutely terrible to see what IBM did to the Sequent culture.)
Huh? Nobody told me we were banning Freedom Words.
any chip named Efficeon is going to get beat up on the way to school for being a little fruity.
Pentium=Pent up energy
--Freeword Associations--
Athlon=Athletic
Opteron=Optimal
Celeron=Celerity... or maybe Celebrity
Efficeon=Efficient? That's a compliment like saying the fat girl has a good personality.
WAAS=Wide Area Augmentation System
WAAS delivers a vector to correct GPS reported positions. If you jam GPS then WAAS doesn't tell you crap.
Here here! I'd go for this idea!
Yeah but at least Hayes *invented* the patent and used it to actually create product instead of being a Johnny-come-lately shake down artist.
Yes.
I'm a BIOS developer and spend lots of long hours in a very noisy machine room hunched over prototype machines will all sorts of fan and other noise around... My iPod is small enough to drop in my shirt pocket which is a good thing because the amount of hanging cable to my ears is much shorter than a larger device on my belt (think about hazard getting caught in fans, etc).
Also the battery life (10 hours) is long enough that I can go all day on a major debug bender and not worry about my tunes dying right about the time I get to an interesting problem.
Also having multiple CD-RWs means I've got multiple CDs floating around the lab that I need to protect from scratches or from other people clipping, etc.
I may develop PC hardware, but I love my iPod (and yes... the iPod was enough for me to go out and buy a G4 PowerMac)
Nobody has mentioned yet this little nugget: If the universe is a computer then we are but small little threads of the Earth process. And we have no such thing as free will... just private member variables that we're not aware of.
And my guess would be they have three bootable setups: a mask ROM of version 1.0 flight software, and two flash images.
The hardware first tries to boot flash image 1, if that fails then it tries flash image 2, and finally if that fails it falls back to the mask ROM image.
I've frequently gotten into heated discussions with my science-minded friends because I refuse to totally discount astrology.
I think the whole "Pluto is influencing your personality" stuff is crap, but the informal evidence suggests that "Sun Signs" are not totally BS.
Think about it... "Sun Signs" are based around the Sun's position, which also influences our length-of-day and seasons and temperatures. It's plausable that length of days, seasons and temps can influence an embryo's development. So our astrology friends could have valid observations but just be totally wrong on the causation.
Hell... I'll even buy that the moon (full and otherwise) affects people physiologically and mentally.
Or if they've been really cheap they've had a lapsed contract for a while....
First a power supply died and nobody cared... then a disk crashed and nobody cared... then a memory chip failed and nobody cared. Then thet finally lost redundency and finally somebody cared.
Anything promulgated by Disney, Sony, Warner, etc will be "Future Fantasy" and hence not taxed. Anything release by anybody else that's even remotely scifi will be. :-(
Come on... just because a few lines are identical doesn't mean they're copied. How many people on slashdot have written:
/. stories that their "cheater detector" doesn't care about variable names...
for (i=0 ; i < 8 ; i++) {
if (array[i]) {
return(array[i]);
}
}
Hundreds? Thousands? Remember from previous GaTech
Just because me and someone else have identical blocks of code doesn't mean we collaborated or copied.
And finally, as a professional comp sci guy I spend lots of my time figuring out how we can reuse someone else's code.... I hate co-ops that want to reinvent the wheel instead of using a library routine...
And as Dennis Miller says, "the human herd has always found a way to thin itself". Parents that are overprotective used to produce children that couldn't survive on their own, who subsequently [fell from cliffs|abducted by local pervert|abducted by local lion|didn't realize that passing out was natures way of saying 'stop drinking'] and didn't reproduce.
Devices such as these reduce selection pressure on humans and as such are a bad long term thing.
While checking out the iPod in the local CompUSA the salesdroid was nice enough to give me the URL for EphPod and I splurged and bought it. After a week of being frustrated with EphPod while also *loving* the design and user interface of the iPod I headed back to CompUSA.
Mac OS X intrigued me... I'd owned a cheap Quadra back in the early 90's and couldn't stand the lack of a command prompt. OS X seemed to address a lot of the earlier issues I had with Macs, so I walked out of there with a new 933Mhz G4 and a 17" studio display.
So, yes, people are buying Macs due to the iPod. (that's what happens when you have yearly bonus money burning a hole in your pocket...)
and it was obvious that he picked up standing while holding onto something (i.e. the muscle coordination involved) before he picked up "standing while counterbalancing gravity. He would stand next to his toybox while comptemplating which toy to grab... then he'd let go off the toybox to grab a toy and fall down. You could see that he had *no idea* of why he fell down initially.
So yes... I find it quite believable that gravity is modeled in the brain separately from kinematics and that therefore new kinematic skills (like learning to catch in 0-g) have a hard time disengaging the gravity model.
at least not for cattle dogs I've known.
:-)
I've known a couple of Catahoulas that were doggy masters of technology. One was a self-appointed protector of people and nothing would stand in his way observing us.
This camera system would confuse him for about 15 minutes. He'd quickly learn to associate the "click" with success. They he'd be standing in the camera turning his head, dropping stuff, you name it, until he heard the click. And then he'll be right back to doing what he wants to do. Of course if that didn't work, eating the door would be an option.
The protesters take the unreasonable position that no risk is acceptable. If they led their lives by this standard they wouldn't get dental X-rays and they wouldn't live anyplace with granite bedrock. (Granite is radioactive in case you didn't know that...)
If Cassini had reentered the odds say that it would have hit the ocean. Plus the plutonium is in ceramic form that likely would make it to the sea floor more or less intact.
Plus you make the fault in assuming that all NASA missions (and all aspects of those missions) are treated the same as regards to safeguards against failure. I'm sure NASA looks at "what's the worst that could happen if this fails" for all the scenarios. Therefore the launch of a relatively small sub-$1bln part of a series mostly-nontoxic satellite didn't receive as much redundency than a multibillion long-term one-of-a-kind toxic subcomponent probe.
If you had, you'd realize what an elegent solution they'd come with for all of those problems!
Geez....
Actually that's Nutrasweet... it looks like sugar, but isn't.
Anyone with a clue realizes that for real protection this would have to be done in hardware, so they throw this "open source" buzzword fragment in there to make people think they're being reasonable.
There *are* open-source hardware efforts, but including them in the law would be too close to real sugar.
On to Washington! Give Linus or maybe Stallman a bullhorn on the monument steps. :-)
Just think folks... these 34 bytes would be subject to the SSSCA. Which means it would be illegal unless it incorporated another 3 megabytes of protection.
Another example of how unrealistic the SSSCA is.
You forgot "Bob"... the most generic name ever.
The quickest link I could find:t m
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/annex/an2.h
But also the EAA has a large membership percentage that are very talented aerospace professionals by day, who are also aerospace fanatics for fun by night.
There are also a small number of planes that probably would attract a large enough following that stand a chance at being kitted if the blueprints suddenly came available... a couple of legendary WWII warbirds immediately pop into my mind: F-4U Corsair, P-38 Lightning and the P-51 Mustang.
I have no idea about the legal status of the current owners of the F-4U or P-38. Sadly I don't think the P-51 will be among those up for release since as of the late-80s Piper owned the assets of the former North American Aviation and had been revamping the P-51 design as a South American counter-insurgency ground attack plane.
And based upon the flyers I know, I can tell you that the coolness factor of flying into Oshkosh in a shiny new P-38 would attract a lot of manpower.