I'm actually in the process of building a cheap-ass file server. It's a dual opteron with 2 GB ram, twelve 400 GB disks, cheap marvell controllers, and diy drive mounts. Price was around $10k--roughly $2.25/GB. Cost per gig will decrease as I add more disks. It'll eventually hold 32 or 40 disks.
Since the core machine is a Sun X4200 running Solaris and ZFS, it's pretty comparable to Thumper, just a bit smaller. I'm still waiting on parts so I haven't any performance figures. I expect it to be pretty zippy.
Human short-term memory has the capacity to retain seven digits, plus or minus two. This is why I use a 10 digit pin. I've only encountered one ATM that wouldn't accept it. The situation may be different outside the US.
No, the grandparent post is correct. The charge outside the superconducting box will still see the electric field from the charge inside the box. The box can only divert and shape the electric field, it can't neutralize it. Inserting a negative charge will bring the box-system back to neutral and kill the external field.
Jesus, am I the only one here who took high school chem? You get two moles of H2 and one mole of O2 for every TWO moles of H2O. 2*(H2) + 1*(O2) == 2*(H2O).
The only reason it could be taking so long is either a) they are idiots and can't program or b) they did a drastic rewrite of the whole OS from ground up.
Apple designed the U3H northbridge and K2 southbridge chips used in the PowerMac G5 computers. Here's a nice system diagram of the dual processor PowerMac G5. Dual G5 Block Diagram and Buses.
If you're interested, take a look at the developer notes Apple publishes for most of their computers. These dev notes have less technical detail than real datasheets, but they're not marketing fluff. Dev notes are available going back to the Mac Classic. Each is between 50 and 100 pages. Apple Hardware Developer Notes.
Every firewire camera that's not a camcorder speaks the same protocol: IIDC. Just like every firewire hard disk speaks SBP2. The camcorders have their own protocol: AVC.
Seriously--every firewire camera supports IIDC. Cheap $50 webcams, $25k FLIR thermal cameras, 1000 fps machine vision cameras, and everything in between. Of course, not all cameras will support all features. However, just about every feature that *is* supported should be accessible through IIDC. For instance, that 1000 fps machine vision camera will have some digital i/o lines to trigger a strobe or to frame-sync with other cameras. The timing and polarity of those i/o lines is controlled via IIDC specified registers. Less esoteric stuff like gain, brightness, and motorized zoom and focus, are also controllable through the IIDC registers. But firmware upgrades will probably require a windows machine.
Did you mean to say conviction? In database terms, an arrest without a conviction occurs when the legal system backs out of an invalid transaction. Either the district attorney, the judge, or the jury--having scrutinized the evidence--decided you are not guilty of a crime. It is equivalent to a "not guilty" verdict.
Motorcycles are great! I have a 1999 Suzuki SV650.
$3500 purchase price (used with 8k miles). $300/yr insurance (24 year old male with 2 tickets) 45 mpg at 80 mph (87 octane). 12.2 second quarter mile (similar to previous generation Dodge Viper).
The current model year SV650 is fuel injected. It is much faster (about 12.0) and gets better mileage too. Also, motorcycles can use the HOV lanes and don't pay bridge tolls during commute hours (at least in California).
The only area where cars surpass motorcycles is comfort and safety. However, the demographics of sportbikes are really skewed toward young males. Because of this, safety statistics overstate the risk increase any particular person will experience.
> When this thing gets hit, it just goes down whereever [sic] it wants to.
Your comment has two plausible interpretations:
(a) You believe the plane will go "whereever [sic] it wants to." That is, wherever its computer decides is best. Presumably "best" is a place with no structures or people. Even a 1:25k topo map from the USGS shows houses.
Response:
This behavior is good but your phrasing seems to indicate that this behavior is bad. Your rhetorical device is misleading and awkward.
(b) The plane goes somewhere other than where its control system desires. Possibly due to damaged control surfaces, broken servos, or a malfunctioning control computer.
Response:
A control computer can be made stronger than the human body. A human pilot is subject to the same equipment failures as a computer control (servos, linkages, etc). A human pilot bails out; a control computer steers the plane until impact. Therefore, it is possible to construct a control system that maintains control longer than a human pilot in a crash scenario. Furthermore, there is no reason to believe a control system would be constructed such that the preceeding is untrue. You did not conduct this simple analysis before you posted.
As I have shown in my two interpretations and associated responses, you are either misleadingly inarticulate or intellectually lazy, respectively.
A note:
There exists no "flame" moderation category. I wonder why acerbic posts such as this one aren't deserving of their own category? I propose three new categories:
- flame, entertaining (+1)
- flame, annoying (-1)
- flame, principally spelling, grammar (-2)
The last may overlap Redundant (-1) when applied to posts flaming the editors.
> It, too, will cause cancer given enough time, just like cigarettes. Note that most pot users will smoke far, far less than even a light smoker. Pot has certain self-limiting characteristics that cigarettes lack.
I'm not sure if you are suggesting that people OD on pot. I have never heard of such a case, it appears to be very unlikely. I imagine it would be very hard if not impossible to OD by smoking pot. Perhaps it is easier to OD by ingestion due to the slower absorption.
> You mention alcohol, which is as bad as the worst illegal drugs. Now you're just being silly. Alcohol isn't as bad as many other drugs because it's rather non-addictive, by and large. Yes, there exists a subset of the population that gets addicted, but it is small relative to the number of casual users. I imagine this is also true of pot. Not so with cigarettes, crack, heroin, etc. Of course cigarette addiction isn't nearly as harmful as the other drugs I mentioned because (1) the health effects are less bad, and (2) cigarette addiction doesn't impact the user's life very much.
> Drugs are stupid. Cigarettes are stupid. Alcohol is stupid. Hearsay, by your own admission.
Fuck, IHBT. Anyone as smug and self-righteous as yourself would've signed their name.
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A kilowatt, huh? So why's it so bright?
Please return your faulty power adapter to Apple for failure analysis.
I'm actually in the process of building a cheap-ass file server. It's a dual opteron with 2 GB ram, twelve 400 GB disks, cheap marvell controllers, and diy drive mounts. Price was around $10k--roughly $2.25/GB. Cost per gig will decrease as I add more disks. It'll eventually hold 32 or 40 disks.
Since the core machine is a Sun X4200 running Solaris and ZFS, it's pretty comparable to Thumper, just a bit smaller. I'm still waiting on parts so I haven't any performance figures. I expect it to be pretty zippy.
Human short-term memory has the capacity to retain seven digits, plus or minus two. This is why I use a 10 digit pin. I've only encountered one ATM that wouldn't accept it. The situation may be different outside the US.
katorga: Don't forget the insane fees paid (not salary or pay either, so they pay no income taxes).
Please explain.
No, the grandparent post is correct. The charge outside the superconducting box will still see the electric field from the charge inside the box. The box can only divert and shape the electric field, it can't neutralize it. Inserting a negative charge will bring the box-system back to neutral and kill the external field.
100 -> 200 over 2 years is 41.4% per year, not 50%.
10k -> 10.5k over two years is 2.47%, not 5%.
Growth, like compund interest, is exponential.
Jesus, am I the only one here who took high school chem? You get two moles of H2 and one mole of O2 for every TWO moles of H2O. 2*(H2) + 1*(O2) == 2*(H2O).
Buck up, 10Brett-T, primes sell at a premium. (You too, Tim C).
Is that not a word? Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a word.
md5 is still good for keeping track of if your files have changed
But only for non-security uses. Don't use MD5 in your intrusion detection system.
I think everyone has offices at the main Apple campus. Even the admin. assistants and IT.
It's my understanding that compensatory damages are not taxed. Is this not the case?
My computer makes very distinct sounds during certain operations. Scrolling, for example.
The only reason it could be taking so long is either a) they are idiots and can't program or b) they did a drastic rewrite of the whole OS from ground up.
Or both! In fact, it's causal: A->B.
$15,000? That's a year's salary for your hypothetical guy making $10/hr. $500 would do the trick, probably less.
Apple designed the U3H northbridge and K2 southbridge chips used in the PowerMac G5 computers. Here's a nice system diagram of the dual processor PowerMac G5. Dual G5 Block Diagram and Buses.
If you're interested, take a look at the developer notes Apple publishes for most of their computers. These dev notes have less technical detail than real datasheets, but they're not marketing fluff. Dev notes are available going back to the Mac Classic. Each is between 50 and 100 pages. Apple Hardware Developer Notes.
Every firewire camera that's not a camcorder speaks the same protocol: IIDC. Just like every firewire hard disk speaks SBP2. The camcorders have their own protocol: AVC.
Seriously--every firewire camera supports IIDC. Cheap $50 webcams, $25k FLIR thermal cameras, 1000 fps machine vision cameras, and everything in between. Of course, not all cameras will support all features. However, just about every feature that *is* supported should be accessible through IIDC. For instance, that 1000 fps machine vision camera will have some digital i/o lines to trigger a strobe or to frame-sync with other cameras. The timing and polarity of those i/o lines is controlled via IIDC specified registers. Less esoteric stuff like gain, brightness, and motorized zoom and focus, are also controllable through the IIDC registers. But firmware upgrades will probably require a windows machine.
take a page out of the RIAA book
Of course MSFT should adopt RIAA tactics! These tactics are clearly an effective deterrent as well as a smart PR move.
Worst arrest of your lifetime:
Did you mean to say conviction? In database terms, an arrest without a conviction occurs when the legal system backs out of an invalid transaction. Either the district attorney, the judge, or the jury--having scrutinized the evidence--decided you are not guilty of a crime. It is equivalent to a "not guilty" verdict.
And yet, feeding cows to humans appears to transmit BSE...
Motorcycles are great! I have a 1999 Suzuki SV650.
$3500 purchase price (used with 8k miles).
$300/yr insurance (24 year old male with 2 tickets)
45 mpg at 80 mph (87 octane).
12.2 second quarter mile (similar to previous generation Dodge Viper).
The current model year SV650 is fuel injected. It is much faster (about 12.0) and gets better mileage too. Also, motorcycles can use the HOV lanes and don't pay bridge tolls during commute hours (at least in California).
The only area where cars surpass motorcycles is comfort and safety. However, the demographics of sportbikes are really skewed toward young males. Because of this, safety statistics overstate the risk increase any particular person will experience.
> When this thing gets hit, it just goes down whereever [sic] it wants to.
Your comment has two plausible interpretations:
(a) You believe the plane will go "whereever [sic] it wants to." That is, wherever its computer decides is best. Presumably "best" is a place with no structures or people. Even a 1:25k topo map from the USGS shows houses.
Response:
This behavior is good but your phrasing seems to indicate that this behavior is bad. Your rhetorical device is misleading and awkward.
(b) The plane goes somewhere other than where its control system desires. Possibly due to damaged control surfaces, broken servos, or a malfunctioning control computer.
Response:
A control computer can be made stronger than the human body. A human pilot is subject to the same equipment failures as a computer control (servos, linkages, etc). A human pilot bails out; a control computer steers the plane until impact. Therefore, it is possible to construct a control system that maintains control longer than a human pilot in a crash scenario. Furthermore, there is no reason to believe a control system would be constructed such that the preceeding is untrue. You did not conduct this simple analysis before you posted.
As I have shown in my two interpretations and associated responses, you are either misleadingly inarticulate or intellectually lazy, respectively.
A note:
There exists no "flame" moderation category. I wonder why acerbic posts such as this one aren't deserving of their own category? I propose three new categories:
- flame, entertaining (+1)
- flame, annoying (-1)
- flame, principally spelling, grammar (-2)
The last may overlap Redundant (-1) when applied to posts flaming the editors.
Ryan
> It, too, will cause cancer given enough time, just like cigarettes.
Note that most pot users will smoke far, far less than even a light smoker. Pot has certain self-limiting characteristics that cigarettes lack.
I'm not sure if you are suggesting that people OD on pot. I have never heard of such a case, it appears to be very unlikely. I imagine it would be very hard if not impossible to OD by smoking pot. Perhaps it is easier to OD by ingestion due to the slower absorption.
> You mention alcohol, which is as bad as the worst illegal drugs.
Now you're just being silly. Alcohol isn't as bad as many other drugs because it's rather non-addictive, by and large. Yes, there exists a subset of the population that gets addicted, but it is small relative to the number of casual users. I imagine this is also true of pot. Not so with cigarettes, crack, heroin, etc. Of course cigarette addiction isn't nearly as harmful as the other drugs I mentioned because (1) the health effects are less bad, and (2) cigarette addiction doesn't impact the user's life very much.
> Drugs are stupid. Cigarettes are stupid. Alcohol is stupid.
Hearsay, by your own admission.
Fuck, IHBT. Anyone as smug and self-righteous as yourself would've signed their name.
-Ryan
So this steel wire I'm holding is plastic? I can bend it, and it stays bent. Smells like plastic deformation to me.
Or perhaps you don't realize that most people use the term "plastic" to mean "polymer".
BTW, do linguistic semantics give you a woody? I'm just wondering.
-Ryan