I helped a friend get a PC. She spent AU$417 for about the same stuff (900mhz intel, ethernet, winmodem, sound, video). She already had a hard drive and memory. That $417 also paid for a "cute" case as well. Thats about US$200.
I would love to get a Power PC board but the only ones I've seen will set me back over a thousand dollars so I'm not buying.
The good old island rule. If you live on an island, you drive on the wrong side of the road.
Many small islands have switched from driving on the left to driving on the right. Something about cars being much cheaper and that sort of thing.
Japan is considering changing because it costs them billions of dollars to do so and if they change, with in about three years all the cars would have the steering wheels on the correct side and they could reduce costs when building cars for the Euro/NA markets.
About the only thing that driving on the wrong side of the road does is provide some protection for the local car markets. This is why Rover and Holden survied as long as they have but now that they have been absorbed by other makers, its just a matter of time before the R costs of a car that can be built for both sides of the road are just way more than for just one side. I know I'll get flamed for making that comment but its true. GM/Holden has much higer expenses building both hand drive cars than GM/Satrun does. GM/Saturns postal car costs them a fortune will my get dropped and replaced by a Aussie built holden.
One other thing to consider is why do right hand drive saabs have a much higher accident rate than left hand drive ones? If you look at the bits you will find that the right hand control arms are reinforced while the left hand ones aren't. This is because in most places, people hit the curbs with the right tire not the left tyre.
"Oh. She's overprivilidged" Some how I don't think your the 1st person to consider this. I wonder if the constant media attention given to the rich kids might have been just more more thing that pushed some poor kid over the edge. The result is She's not overprivilidged now.
You know that just about every bit of that $200 million will go to people who earned it through labor? The aquarium will help educate people about how Georgia is dumping so much crud off their shores that it has killed virtual 100% of the oceanic fish breding grounds off their coast. Thouse areas are where many of the fish in the Atlantic are born. With out thouse areas you deprive a billion people from a renewable source of food. Sounds like that might be a better long term invenstment in people than handing over 200mil to some goverment welfare program which will only produce more welfare people.
Look at what happend on the web. For the first time in history we have a good way to find out if a specifc ad works. What did we find out? Almost all ads don't work. What did the publishers do with that info? They ignored it as if it didn't apply to them. Now they have gone back to publishing in mediums where the advertising effectivness is measured by compaines with conflicting interests who do everything they can to fudge the numbers. But they sell the media giants numbers they can use to scam their customers into paying for ads that don't work.
It common in many places around the world (including parts of the US). The idiots don't seem to understand that when the bullets come down, they are moving just about as fast as they were when they left the gun.
Most people who get shot on new years eve are hit by bullets that were fired into the air.
Lets say there is a web site that talks about some of the registry settigns that you can do on windows to help speed up net access. Now lets assume that this same web site says if you have a cable modem, you can make the same change by loading a different config file. If that site then goes on to explain how to get the config file from the cable compaine (by tftp or asking them) but then provides a sample and that sample jsut happens no to trun on the cap, then it is reasonable to expect that this action could be done with out knowing its illegal or violates the terms of service. If pages to descibe optimizations (without mentioning the cap) exist on the web, the cable company could have a very hard time in court.
But that only works if the modems aren't plugged into the cable network. If you plug the cable modems into the network, they have a good chance of booting with the cable co's settings and not the local pc. The FBI's evidence in this case wont' show anything because once they have moved the machiens away from the local enviroment, they have changed how things work. There is a the chance that some script kiddie was tring to get this to work but couldn't but it will work fine in the FBI's lab. If I was a juror, I wouldn't buy their story however I would believe the logs with the mac addresses and the tcpdump logs but I wouldn't ever be called in for this kind of case.
Keep in mind that Melbourne has more people than Chicago. It is a higer density city than most in the US. I can drive 20 minutes in any direction from the CBD (downtown) and find many places where GSM coverage is poor non-existant. Australia needed MAPS (old analog) for the rural areas but they pulled it out and replaced it with a worthless CDMA system which provides much less coverage in rural areas. The population density of Australia seems to be a mix between very high (like in Europe, not high for Aisa) or none (like most of the outback). There are very few areas that have medium or low density of people unlike the midwest US where there are vast tracks of land with lots of little setlements spread all around.
A close friend of my family was ver influential at NASA for all of the FL launches. He gave me a patch that has been to the moon and back. Its was one of the patches that NASA allowed to be given out to the public (mostly senators and the like) but when I was given the patch, the comment was made "its rare now but in twenty years it will be common".
To me it its a memorial -- not to where man has been but to where man has no ability to return.
When I take underwater photos, I get the film developed but not cut. I also tend to use slide film since its much better. I then get a 1 hr photo place to scan the entire 36 pictures. They will do a single roll for about 1/2 the cost of 36 pictures if they negatives are cut. I then put their CD in my pc and run a small script that uses convert to convert the images to 400x300 and 100x75 thumb prints. If any of the pics are very good I get them rescaned at very high resolution. Kodac Photo CD is much better than their picture CD but its hard to find palces that will still do that. I've got two photo cd pics (reduced in size) at the bottom of www.abnormal.com. I've got a few pics taken with a $200 800kpix smasung camera (click on the fish, then the nice trpical islands)
Remember the worst 35 mm film has a resoluion of about 50 megapixels while the better stuff has a resolution of about 300 megapixles.
The radiant system uses 28 or 40 ghz point to point radios and they run ATM over that. The main feed to the messh is a 155mb atm link. Each hub has 4 directional antennas so it can talk to 4 other sites. The problems with this is it only goes about 3km (but 1km is more typical) and the hubs were about 7 grand each and I have now idea how much the main feed point would cost.
There are several compaines working optical mesh networks which I think will work as well if not better because they have much longer range (when the weather is good you can do a 20km hop but when the weather is bad you do a bunch of 1km hops) and are cheaper.
99.99% of what I run will be much more effecent with 32 bit ints than 64 bit ints. At work we use 64 bit sparcs and they can run in 32 bit mode. They are slightly faster for what we do in 32 bit mode than 64 bit mode.
I don't think most businesses will ever go to 64 bit because its just the wrong step. Most code that will get any speed advantage out of 64 bits will get more advanatge out of 256 bit but thats an insane amount of data to push around for task swaps.
About the only thing that hits the 64 bit sweet spot is database access and disk access routines but in reality they do thouse calcualtions so seldom, that they lose the advanatges with task swaping in most cases. You can do an 32 bit add with carry into another 32 bit add about 400 times faster than you can dump the extra bits on the stack.
If you look at the high speed database base benchmarks, most of them are running on systems where the register stacks don't ever get out of the cache if even out of the register windows (as in Sparc)
With the pc server market no longer subsidising that fastest machines, the gamer market (and super computer field) are all thats left and those markets aren't interesting enough for most compaines to spend billions in R&D.
If they linked their code to any GPL code, they they must release the code. They may have loaded most of it a device driver that is linked in the kernel with the intention of moving it to userspace and then just releasing a few lines of modified code. Others have done this very thing.
GNU won't protect you from DMCA. If you touch anything with the decryption you may be in violation of the DMCA.
I've been playing with a 3com NBX 100 which uses a number of Open Source tools all linked in one big a.out image. Just because the souce code is GNU'ed, that doesn't give me any rights to reverse engineer the device or touch the compiled code. I had to specificly get a license from the person that was listed as the copyright holder to legally rip it apart.
Remember old Copyright violations mean civil court, DMCA means you go to jail. The GPL needs to address this issue.
With the airbus system, the computer is flying the plane and the pilot controls tell the computers what to do. The Boeing system is that the pilot is still flying the plane and the computer is watching with the ability to provide additional inputs. That works better when the computer makes the wrong decision. The stats mentioned in that two year old report are a bit outdated. Boeing planes are much cheaper for the insurance compaines point of view than the Airbus planes.
The fly-by-wire gets somewhat confusing. All planes built after the DC-9 use a hydrolic system so they are fly-by-plumbing. Things like the Concorde replace the plumbing with wires for most of the path. The newer Airbus planes run thouse wires to the computer and not to the pilots yoke (or joystick).
I've been working with computers for over 20 years. The one fact that keeps showing up is that I can not trust them to work 100%
I figure property is something you can put a fence around. This is true for things like your land, your stuff and even Patents and Trademarks. Its also true for trade secrets but that involves having the fence go around every one that works on the project too. In the past IBM used to solve this by the concept of life long jobs. Now that the compaines break backed down on that, I think they have backed down on their ability to preserve their secrets as well.
One thing that needs to be settled (and could be soon) is what is public domain. Remember all the congresscritters singing on the steps? The copyright for that song is owend by a group that gives the money to the Boy Scouts. That performance was viewed by billions of people and according to Congressess on rules, they owe. Or they could contend that since they sang the song fomr memory that its in the public domain. The trick is to get congress to have to make that decission.
Look at this: http://web.abnormal.com/~thogard/temp1-day. gif The green is a temp sensor stuck in a 7kw AC that we use to keep a rack of gear cool. The Blue line is when a door is open. http://web.abnormal.com/~thogard/temp-day.g if This shows the temps at the top and bottom of the rack. The temps are in degree C and scaled by a factor of 100. The racks stay consistant because its a largish room but the temps out of the AC change between 5 and 20 degrees. The temp profile changes in the summer but its winter here now.
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The only people I know who could benifit by stealing this is a different goverment.... maybe a shadow goverment?
I helped a friend get a PC. She spent AU$417 for about the same stuff (900mhz intel, ethernet, winmodem, sound, video). She already had a hard drive and memory. That $417 also paid for a "cute" case as well. Thats about US$200.
I would love to get a Power PC board but the only ones I've seen will set me back over a thousand dollars so I'm not buying.
The good old island rule. If you live on an island, you drive on the wrong side of the road.
Many small islands have switched from driving on the left to driving on the right. Something about cars being much cheaper and that sort of thing.
Japan is considering changing because it costs them billions of dollars to do so and if they change, with in about three years all the cars would have the steering wheels on the correct side and they could reduce costs when building cars for the Euro/NA markets.
About the only thing that driving on the wrong side of the road does is provide some protection for the local car markets. This is why Rover and Holden survied as long as they have but now that they have been absorbed by other makers, its just a matter of time before the R costs of a car that can be built for both sides of the road are just way more than for just one side. I know I'll get flamed for making that comment but its true. GM/Holden has much higer expenses building both hand drive cars than GM/Satrun does. GM/Saturns postal car costs them a fortune will my get dropped and replaced by a Aussie built holden.
One other thing to consider is why do right hand drive saabs have a much higher accident rate than left hand drive ones? If you look at the bits you will find that the right hand control arms are reinforced while the left hand ones aren't. This is because in most places, people hit the curbs with the right tire not the left tyre.
If the US$ is going down relative to the rest of the world (which it is), then foreign investros will pullout of the US and then reinvest latter.
Thats what is happening. You don't buy high and sell low, you try the other way around.
But didn't Ziggy say that he was on the lookout to buy some of WCOM?
But microsoft could buy out Wcom without a problem.
"Oh. She's overprivilidged"
Some how I don't think your the 1st person to consider this. I wonder if the constant media attention given to the rich kids might have been just more more thing that pushed some poor kid over the edge. The result is She's not overprivilidged now.
I live in Australia and have heard of both.
You know that just about every bit of that $200 million will go to people who earned it through labor? The aquarium will help educate people about how Georgia is dumping so much crud off their shores that it has killed virtual 100% of the oceanic fish breding grounds off their coast. Thouse areas are where many of the fish in the Atlantic are born. With out thouse areas you deprive a billion people from a renewable source of food. Sounds like that might be a better long term invenstment in people than handing over 200mil to some goverment welfare program which will only produce more welfare people.
Look at what happend on the web. For the first time in history we have a good way to find out if a specifc ad works. What did we find out? Almost all ads don't work. What did the publishers do with that info? They ignored it as if it didn't apply to them. Now they have gone back to publishing in mediums where the advertising effectivness is measured by compaines with conflicting interests who do everything they can to fudge the numbers. But they sell the media giants numbers they can use to scam their customers into paying for ads that don't work.
It common in many places around the world (including parts of the US). The idiots don't seem to understand that when the bullets come down, they are moving just about as fast as they were when they left the gun.
Most people who get shot on new years eve are hit by bullets that were fired into the air.
Lets say there is a web site that talks about some of the registry settigns that you can do on windows to help speed up net access. Now lets assume that this same web site says if you have a cable modem, you can make the same change by loading a different config file. If that site then goes on to explain how to get the config file from the cable compaine (by tftp or asking them) but then provides a sample and that sample jsut happens no to trun on the cap, then it is reasonable to expect that this action could be done with out knowing its illegal or violates the terms of service. If pages to descibe optimizations (without mentioning the cap) exist on the web, the cable company could have a very hard time in court.
But that only works if the modems aren't plugged into the cable network. If you plug the cable modems into the network, they have a good chance of booting with the cable co's settings and not the local pc. The FBI's evidence in this case wont' show anything because once they have moved the machiens away from the local enviroment, they have changed how things work. There is a the chance that some script kiddie was tring to get this to work but couldn't but it will work fine in the FBI's lab. If I was a juror, I wouldn't buy their story however I would believe the logs with the mac addresses and the tcpdump logs but I wouldn't ever be called in for this kind of case.
Keep in mind that Melbourne has more people than Chicago. It is a higer density city than most in the US. I can drive 20 minutes in any direction from the CBD (downtown) and find many places where GSM coverage is poor non-existant. Australia needed MAPS (old analog) for the rural areas but they pulled it out and replaced it with a worthless CDMA system which provides much less coverage in rural areas. The population density of Australia seems to be a mix between very high (like in Europe, not high for Aisa) or none (like most of the outback). There are very few areas that have medium or low density of people unlike the midwest US where there are vast tracks of land with lots of little setlements spread all around.
A close friend of my family was ver influential at NASA for all of the FL launches. He gave me a patch that has been to the moon and back. Its was one of the patches that NASA allowed to be given out to the public (mostly senators and the like) but when I was given the patch, the comment was made "its rare now but in twenty years it will be common".
To me it its a memorial -- not to where man has been but to where man has no ability to return.
When I take underwater photos, I get the film developed but not cut. I also tend to use slide film since its much better. I then get a 1 hr photo place to scan the entire 36 pictures. They will do a single roll for about 1/2 the cost of 36 pictures if they negatives are cut. I then put their CD in my pc and run a small script that uses convert to convert the images to 400x300 and 100x75 thumb prints. If any of the pics are very good I get them rescaned at very high resolution. Kodac Photo CD is much better than their picture CD but its hard to find palces that will still do that. I've got two photo cd pics (reduced in size) at the bottom of www.abnormal.com. I've got a few pics taken with a $200 800kpix smasung camera (click on the fish, then the nice trpical islands)
Remember the worst 35 mm film has a resoluion of about 50 megapixels while the better stuff has a resolution of about 300 megapixles.
The radiant system uses 28 or 40 ghz point to point radios and they run ATM over that. The main feed to the messh is a 155mb atm link. Each hub has 4 directional antennas so it can talk to 4 other sites. The problems with this is it only goes about 3km (but 1km is more typical) and the hubs were about 7 grand each and I have now idea how much the main feed point would cost.
There are several compaines working optical mesh networks which I think will work as well if not better because they have much longer range (when the weather is good you can do a 20km hop but when the weather is bad you do a bunch of 1km hops) and are cheaper.
99.99% of what I run will be much more effecent with 32 bit ints than 64 bit ints. At work we use 64 bit sparcs and they can run in 32 bit mode. They are slightly faster for what we do in 32 bit mode than 64 bit mode.
I don't think most businesses will ever go to 64 bit because its just the wrong step. Most code that will get any speed advantage out of 64 bits will get more advanatge out of 256 bit but thats an insane amount of data to push around for task swaps.
About the only thing that hits the 64 bit sweet spot is database access and disk access routines but in reality they do thouse calcualtions so seldom, that they lose the advanatges with task swaping in most cases. You can do an 32 bit add with carry into another 32 bit add about 400 times faster than you can dump the extra bits on the stack.
If you look at the high speed database base benchmarks, most of them are running on systems where the register stacks don't ever get out of the cache if even out of the register windows (as in Sparc)
With the pc server market no longer subsidising that fastest machines, the gamer market (and super computer field) are all thats left and those markets aren't interesting enough for most compaines to spend billions in R&D.
If they linked their code to any GPL code, they they must release the code. They may have loaded most of it a device driver that is linked in the kernel with the intention of moving it to userspace and then just releasing a few lines of modified code. Others have done this very thing.
GNU won't protect you from DMCA. If you touch anything with the decryption you may be in violation of the DMCA.
I've been playing with a 3com NBX 100 which uses a number of Open Source tools all linked in one big a.out image. Just because the souce code is GNU'ed, that doesn't give me any rights to reverse engineer the device or touch the compiled code. I had to specificly get a license from the person that was listed as the copyright holder to legally rip it apart.
Remember old Copyright violations mean civil court, DMCA means you go to jail. The GPL needs to address this issue.
With the airbus system, the computer is flying the plane and the pilot controls tell the computers what to do. The Boeing system is that the pilot is still flying the plane and the computer is watching with the ability to provide additional inputs. That works better when the computer makes the wrong decision. The stats mentioned in that two year old report are a bit outdated. Boeing planes are much cheaper for the insurance compaines point of view than the Airbus planes.
The fly-by-wire gets somewhat confusing. All planes built after the DC-9 use a hydrolic system so they are fly-by-plumbing. Things like the Concorde replace the plumbing with wires for most of the path. The newer Airbus planes run thouse wires to the computer and not to the pilots yoke (or joystick).
I've been working with computers for over 20 years. The one fact that keeps showing up is that I can not trust them to work 100%
Fly-by-wire aircraft have 4 times the hull writeoffs as non-fly-by-wire. I consder that when I pick an airline.
I figure property is something you can put a fence around. This is true for things like your land, your stuff and even Patents and Trademarks. Its also true for trade secrets but that involves having the fence go around every one that works on the project too. In the past IBM used to solve this by the concept of life long jobs. Now that the compaines break backed down on that, I think they have backed down on their ability to preserve their secrets as well.
One thing that needs to be settled (and could be soon) is what is public domain. Remember all the congresscritters singing on the steps? The copyright for that song is owend by a group that gives the money to the Boy Scouts. That performance was viewed by billions of people and according to Congressess on rules, they owe. Or they could contend that since they sang the song fomr memory that its in the public domain. The trick is to get congress to have to make that decission.
Look at this:. gifg if
http://web.abnormal.com/~thogard/temp1-day
The green is a temp sensor stuck in a 7kw AC that we use to keep a rack of gear cool. The Blue line is when a door is open.
http://web.abnormal.com/~thogard/temp-day.
This shows the temps at the top and bottom of the rack. The temps are in degree C and scaled by a factor of 100. The racks stay consistant because its a largish room but the temps out of the AC change between 5 and 20 degrees. The temp profile changes in the summer but its winter here now.
No, but it copes with windows of any size you can use that clicky thing to make it as big as your screen and font size will let you.