Question: What's the difference between a comet nucleus and a low density asteroid? The only real difference is that comets have tails, and asteroids don't.
It is clear that wireless is going to be the next big thing.
It's far from clear. The wireless companies are trying to push this, but you have to ask why? I think the answer is that the market has become saturated. Anyone who wants one can get a cell phone for a few bucks a month. The only way that they can increase their income is by charging more, and the only way they can do this is by offering new services. However, this does not automatically mean that people will adopt them. Current estimates of the costs of 3G data is about $170 for 10Mb of data monthly. This would put your star trek out of the price that most people would pay. Unfortunatly the goverments around the world saw the spectrum requirements for 3G as a way to make money (22 Billion pounds in the UK, almost 100 Billion DM in Germany), plus the cost of building a new network. These have to be paid back, and that means expensive services.
3G might become the next big thing, or it might become the next Iridium.
and it's been 3 decades of buildup to this disaster
I'd say longer. The US has had an awful foreign policy all throughout the late 19th and 20th C. From the United Fruit Company in South America, the various Asian countries and it's continual support of various dictators around the world, the one thing that the US should have learnt is that what it's meddling invariably results in regretable consequences.
It's not really a clone of ed either. ed has many quite sophisticated features, such as regex based search & replace, reading & writing of possibly partial files into the buffer and doesn't have any command editing. edlin is based upon command editing, especially for it's rather primative subsitution.
The 640k limit was not a DOS issue, it could handle as much memory as the system would allocate. It was an IBM PC design issue. The 8088 requires the bottom of memory to be RAM, and the top of memory to be the bootstrap, and therefore almost certainly ROM. When the designers of the PC decided to include memory mapped devices, they reserved the top 384K of memory for the ROM and other memory mapped devices, including the CGI screen at 640k and the mono screen at 768k. At that time, 32k was typical memory installed, and 64k would be a large amount. As the memory usage increased, the location of the color screen butted against the top of the RAM, and the 640k 'limit' appeared. Even on IBM PC clones, with a mono adaptor it was possible to get memory all the way up to the 768k point, and DOS would happily run with that.
Pick any of the following algorithms and break it: IDEA, 3DES, RSA, DH. I guarantee you will be famous, at least within security/cryptography circles.
All of the algroithms are 'broken' in one sense, that we know how to decode something encoded in it. However, it will take a lot of CPU cycles to do so.
Many people studying evolutionary biology use the number of grandchildren as the measurement. If you have grandchildren it's clear that your children survived to reproduce, and therefore your behaviour was good.
Far too often an editor replaces file during saving instead of first writing a new one, after that removing old one and renaming new file to old filename.
No, this is the correct way to update files. If you follow your instructions, then the permissions, any hard links will be lost.
Hmm, you don't seem to have read the bluetooth web site then. That was their 'big idea' 12 months ago.
Some standards seem to do this. One day they say they'll do X. When people investigate it, and find the standard is a bad way of doing X, then the originators say it's the way to do Y. When people investigate and find it's also a bad way to do Y, then they're told it's the best way to do Z. Repeat until the standard fades away.
For many of the problems that NASA code addresses, you're going to find all the code is in FORTRAN. It's the language that engineers & scientists have used for programming. Nowadays the front end might be programmed in another language, but the number crunching will probably still be done in a F77 library.
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No they don't. 4 bits gives 16 possible codes. Allocate 15 of them to characters, and make the 16th a shift code. That gives you another 16 possible codes, where I allocated the other 16 characters. That meant that the most common characters (which I allocated in the first 15) were encoded in 4 bits, and the less common characters were in 8 bits. If the message only comprised of the 15 characters, I could have 64 characters. If it comprised of the 16 less common characters, it would be only 32. Most messages were nearer the 64 than the 32.
A: Five -- four to lift the car and one to swap tires till they find the one that's flat.
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There was also a 32 byte section of memory which would be preserved across soft reboots. A very useful cache for storing certain paramaters, however because of it's small size, you'd have to be very careful of using it wisely.
I once wrote a program which used 4 bit characters to encode a message in there, and could get up to 64 characters messages, as long as they only used the 31 characters I defined.
Be careful about those 'rarely used' and 'never used' functions. How many of them are error handlers? Disks rarely fill up, but you still have to deal with a full disk.
I agree with you about the above being dangerous, but so is alcohol, which is legal. Also dangerous is acetaminophen (Tylanol) which has an overdose
Tobacco also has serious bodily harm, though that is a long term thing instead of an overdose. However, I'd say that even if something is definatly dangerous, it's not the goverments place to regulate how an individual affects himself.
MPAA President Jack Valenti said in a statement. "When an agreement is reached by the private parties, we will all then together support appropriate legislation regarding copyright protection in digital devices."
I don't think the Stalinism was terribly important. It was the control of information and the locking of power by the elite which is the common thread between both Animal Farm and 1984. Winston and the animals have no way of proving that what Big Brother and Napoleon are telling them are lies. Even if they did. They have no power to change it. The formal structure wasn't terribly important. It could have been a western style democracy, if the elite manipulated what they said to us to ensure they remained in power. (Comparissions to the current Whitehouse policy on people who disagree with the US's policy towards Afganistan is left to the reader)
Is Dmitri not a legitimate programmer? I think he is. Dmtitri writes programs which are legal in his country. He has never written a program in the US which violates US law. What other test of legitimate is there?
Adobe got where it is by making QUALITY products that do what professional graphic artists NEED to do.
Actually I'd say they got there by being lucky enough to be accepted by Apple to implement the LaserWriter. If Apple had chosen any of the dozens of other competing page layout languages available at the time, then Adobe would have disappeared into the ether.
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And if any MCSE come along, what will you do, cause they've already sold their soul.
Question: What's the difference between a comet nucleus and a low density asteroid? The only real difference is that comets have tails, and asteroids don't.
It's far from clear. The wireless companies are trying to push this, but you have to ask why? I think the answer is that the market has become saturated. Anyone who wants one can get a cell phone for a few bucks a month. The only way that they can increase their income is by charging more, and the only way they can do this is by offering new services. However, this does not automatically mean that people will adopt them. Current estimates of the costs of 3G data is about $170 for 10Mb of data monthly. This would put your star trek out of the price that most people would pay. Unfortunatly the goverments around the world saw the spectrum requirements for 3G as a way to make money (22 Billion pounds in the UK, almost 100 Billion DM in Germany), plus the cost of building a new network. These have to be paid back, and that means expensive services.
3G might become the next big thing, or it might become the next Iridium.
I'd say longer. The US has had an awful foreign policy all throughout the late 19th and 20th C. From the United Fruit Company in South America, the various Asian countries and it's continual support of various dictators around the world, the one thing that the US should have learnt is that what it's meddling invariably results in regretable consequences.
It's not really a clone of ed either. ed has many quite sophisticated features, such as regex based search & replace, reading & writing of possibly partial files into the buffer and doesn't have any command editing. edlin is based upon command editing, especially for it's rather primative subsitution.
The 640k limit was not a DOS issue, it could handle as much memory as the system would allocate. It was an IBM PC design issue. The 8088 requires the bottom of memory to be RAM, and the top of memory to be the bootstrap, and therefore almost certainly ROM. When the designers of the PC decided to include memory mapped devices, they reserved the top 384K of memory for the ROM and other memory mapped devices, including the CGI screen at 640k and the mono screen at 768k. At that time, 32k was typical memory installed, and 64k would be a large amount. As the memory usage increased, the location of the color screen butted against the top of the RAM, and the 640k 'limit' appeared. Even on IBM PC clones, with a mono adaptor it was possible to get memory all the way up to the 768k point, and DOS would happily run with that.
All of the algroithms are 'broken' in one sense, that we know how to decode something encoded in it. However, it will take a lot of CPU cycles to do so.
Many people studying evolutionary biology use the number of grandchildren as the measurement. If you have grandchildren it's clear that your children survived to reproduce, and therefore your behaviour was good.
I don't see it to be a problem. The bottleneck in terms of speed here will be the burner, not the host connection.
No, this is the correct way to update files. If you follow your instructions, then the permissions, any hard links will be lost.
Some standards seem to do this. One day they say they'll do X. When people investigate it, and find the standard is a bad way of doing X, then the originators say it's the way to do Y. When people investigate and find it's also a bad way to do Y, then they're told it's the best way to do Z. Repeat until the standard fades away.
Except you don't. There are oodles of SSL sites which only run 40 bits, which isn't good crypto.
For many of the problems that NASA code addresses, you're going to find all the code is in FORTRAN. It's the language that engineers & scientists have used for programming. Nowadays the front end might be programmed in another language, but the number crunching will probably still be done in a F77 library.
I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
No they don't. 4 bits gives 16 possible codes. Allocate 15 of them to characters, and make the 16th a shift code. That gives you another 16 possible codes, where I allocated the other 16 characters. That meant that the most common characters (which I allocated in the first 15) were encoded in 4 bits, and the less common characters were in 8 bits. If the message only comprised of the 15 characters, I could have 64 characters. If it comprised of the 16 less common characters, it would be only 32. Most messages were nearer the 64 than the 32.
A: Five -- four to lift the car and one to swap tires till they find the one that's flat.
I once wrote a program which used 4 bit characters to encode a message in there, and could get up to 64 characters messages, as long as they only used the 31 characters I defined.
Be careful about those 'rarely used' and 'never used' functions. How many of them are error handlers? Disks rarely fill up, but you still have to deal with a full disk.
I agree with you about the above being dangerous, but so is alcohol, which is legal. Also dangerous is acetaminophen (Tylanol) which has an overdose Tobacco also has serious bodily harm, though that is a long term thing instead of an overdose. However, I'd say that even if something is definatly dangerous, it's not the goverments place to regulate how an individual affects himself.
KY Jelly has legitimate medical uses. It's often used to aid insertion of catheters.
All the parties except for the consumers, right?
I don't think the Stalinism was terribly important. It was the control of information and the locking of power by the elite which is the common thread between both Animal Farm and 1984. Winston and the animals have no way of proving that what Big Brother and Napoleon are telling them are lies. Even if they did. They have no power to change it. The formal structure wasn't terribly important. It could have been a western style democracy, if the elite manipulated what they said to us to ensure they remained in power. (Comparissions to the current Whitehouse policy on people who disagree with the US's policy towards Afganistan is left to the reader)
It's also perceived as extraterritorial in Canada too, especially considering that we have much higher trade with Cuba than Europe does.
Is Dmitri not a legitimate programmer? I think he is. Dmtitri writes programs which are legal in his country. He has never written a program in the US which violates US law. What other test of legitimate is there?
Actually I'd say they got there by being lucky enough to be accepted by Apple to implement the LaserWriter. If Apple had chosen any of the dozens of other competing page layout languages available at the time, then Adobe would have disappeared into the ether.