Since '81 when I first started messing with PS's the only time I can think of when I upgraded a CPU was one of the early more effecent 8086 versions. I've downgraded a few because of fried CPUs for friends but in that case most of the box should have been thrown out.
I figure its about time they start shipping the boards with 128mb of ram and maybe one socket to add more. That would work find for the application I have for this board.
Most European countries have a VAT (Value Added Tax) or GST (Good and Services Tax) so development of software is taxed. This is in addition to other taxes such as income taxes, forced retirement contributions and a mess of other taxes that would never go over in the US such as dog taxes, tv taxes, taxes on putting money into a bank account.
Australia just killed about 20 of the silly little taxes and put in a 10% GST (one of the lowest in the world outside of the US) an claimed they would be getting rid of other taxes soon. Now everything has 10% added to the prices and there is a long chain of paying and claiming taxes that is much more complex than a typical US state's sales tax. The resulting paperwork is causing some small businesses lots of problems.
A UL approved lightbulb will have a fuse in it. It will also meet quite a few requirements such as breakage resistance. From what I can tell, the lightbulbs for some restraunt applications are much better than the overpriced relabled auto lights that go in the wings of small planes.
I don't see any real problems with the ship you described.
They have paper charts. The ocean doesn't change all that much and if they don't have their PC, they may break some regulation or not be able to find some radio beacon or not know some lighthouse has been replaced but thouse things don't happen all that often and may not be reflected on the charts for months if not years anyway.
The GPS feeding the computer is a one way thing. The GPS spits out stuff in a format called NMEA by its creator the Natl Marine Electronics Association. If the PC dies, you look at the GPS display.
As far as using the GPS to get a position and it going down, well people have been taking long voyages in boats for at least 5000 years and not getting lost. Capt Cook and his clan would get star sightings a few times a week in some cases and those were good for a position down to about 100km or so even on a rocky boat.
Of course their email system is going to get hacked at some point by a virus or while its connected but with sat phone costs, I expect they don't stay online all that long.
Take sendmail for example. Most of the exploits over the last 15 years have been a result of 1) external programs causing problems 2) operating system bugs 3) trusted interfaces that were wrong The core isn't the problem, its all the other fluff on top of it. The same could be said for ISS and even Win NT.
Is this just one more bit of spin to start a new arms race? Anyone with 1/2 clue will see that the arms race with the great evil Russia resulted in lots of new cool stuff and put the US in the lead with technology. Now most of that stuff is made in third world countries and imported. The US has a nasty unemployment problem with its technical sector and an arms race would get enough of the American public behind it to justify the expenses.
Most Muslims don't give a rats ass about the US vs Sadam or al Quada. What they care about is US policty starving kids in Iraq and the camps in Palestine.
They have a slight mistrust for the US just like the US had a mistrust of scientifc findings of the Russians durring the cold war. The whole bin Laden thing is a real mess because the Laden construction companies (this include Osama and others) built most of the modern hospitals in the Middle East and now the US (remember it isn't trusted) is saying this man is a monster. Because of the lack of good press in the region, the people haven't heard of his more recent actions -- all they know is their local hospital has his name on a plaque. These people are going to react the same way as most Americans would if the Rusians had announced that Mother Theresa was evil and needed an exorcism.
Dubya has a case of "I learned it from my daddy". Ever work with an engineer who's fater was an engineer? They tend to think they are experts in that field too and are usualy wrong.
Did anyone tell Dubya that his daddy and sadam where pals until there was a bit of a misunderstanding about a line in the sand? I think in a few decades we will find out that Sadam was simply a punishment to Kuwait for its lack of understanding in the arrest of two American nurses that have voilated some Arab custom.
Most of the skinheads I've meet would have been first in line at a concentration camp under the rule of the real nazis.
Remember the Hitler and crew didn't get into power by doing the atrocities we remember them for, they got into power convincing a great deal of people they were dragging Germany out of the economic cesspool it was in and restoring its pride.
perl has the concept of barewords. They are just like a normal variable but they don't have the $ in front. A STDIO is a common one that appears in many programs. With the right module, you can redefine perl to look like just about anything for example Perligata which changes the parsing rules to a latin form where the subject of the verb is defined by its suffix.
A few days ago/. had a story about many odd languages. While some (most?) of them seem quite useless, if writing a program in them opens your mind, it can make you a better coder. For example brainf*ck is a pure turing language with 8 instructions -- risc taken all the way down. Hardware desgined to run brainf*ck could be clocked at the several hundred Ghz and could be piplined like mad.
Interesting theory. The problems I see with it are by the time the Greeks got good at going long distances, Egypt was well into its decline.
The typical Irish red-head gene is also found on the south eastern coast of Africa (in an area that has some of the oldest stone buildings around)
The term Pharaoh comes from Arabia and may never been used in ancient Egypt. The name Egypt comes from the bible and when the French found the cool stuff near Giza, they assumed that it was the same place as the Mosses story and named the place Aegypt. At least because of the stability of Latin and their translation from Greek, we have a good idea how to pronounce names like Cleopatra but we know languages change over time but its hard to figure out how to pronounce a city's name that was represented as a symbol.
The boat that was found under the pyramid in Giza was only slightly smaller than the Mayflower. While it wasn't built for ocean voyages, it does seem to be built stronger than the repoduction of the Mayflower I saw.
A common picture in tombs have a picture of the deceased holding a knife to the neck of an Indian or Ethiopian. There are reports that they knew of at least four other races 3000 years ago. There are almost no detailed drawings of ships or maps. There are also reports that the Egypteans didn't go far in their ships but hired crews from other areas. Maybe they had some superstition about going too far from home.
Some of the survey maps from 3000 to 5000 years ago have areas that are very accurate. As in better than the ones done in the 1800's by the French and require round earth calculations. There is an map of the entire coast of Africa in the British Museum so someone was going long distances in boats and getting back. I'm not sure the ones that got to Australia ever got back since a long boat at that time had a high risk of being a one way trip to fish food.
A few years ago I read a book that a huge "C" on the front. It wasn't about the language but about conspiracies and espionage. It had covered such things like a cannon ball price war in Portugal started by the British which resulted in the Spanish Armada being equiped with lower quality armourments. I think it was a better written book than the one covered by this review.
The peak of the legal profession for many is to get a job as a judge. In most states, you generaly have to spend some time being a public defender. Once you spend some quality time there (and don't win too much but show you could have), then you can work your way into the prosecution sied of things and if you win there most of the time, you have a chance to be a judge.
What the world needs more of is judges without law degrees. Some would argue that a judge needs to know the law but thats why we have the prosecution. Many of the well respected country judges don't have a law degree and they do a great job.
I've got a GPRS phone (a Nokia 8310) and so far I have not been able to use it on two of the three networks in Australia. I've got a GPRS PCMICA card and its about the same story. Untill I see it work, I'm putting GPRS in the same category as Ponds and Fleischmann's cold fusion.
The rate I should be paying (assuming it worked), is AU$.22/1000 bytes. I figure thats about about US$117 per megabyte or about 60,000 times what wireless data should cost based on other services.
Imode works and people can afford it to do the routine things they want to do. Thats why its good.
NTT is about to do to Motorola what Sony did to them 2 decades ago.
The DoCoMo phones are so far ahead of what complacent US companies have been spewing out. Hopeful this time Motorola will wake up before they have to kill off another profitable industry like they did with their TV and radio divisions
Geographicly the center of the US would be the major hub of your preferred airline. Getting from a minor city like Tulsa to another minor city may require two plane changes where you can from from Atlanta to just about any minor city direct.
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Since '81 when I first started messing with PS's the only time I can think of when I upgraded a CPU was one of the early more effecent 8086 versions. I've downgraded a few because of fried CPUs for friends but in that case most of the box should have been thrown out.
I figure its about time they start shipping the boards with 128mb of ram and maybe one socket to add more. That would work find for the application I have for this board.
The +12 is useful to spin up the harddrive but whats the -12 for? An exercise in building no load power supplies?
Most European countries have a VAT (Value Added Tax) or GST (Good and Services Tax) so development of software is taxed. This is in addition to other taxes such as income taxes, forced retirement contributions and a mess of other taxes that would never go over in the US such as dog taxes, tv taxes, taxes on putting money into a bank account.
Australia just killed about 20 of the silly little taxes and put in a 10% GST (one of the lowest in the world outside of the US) an claimed they would be getting rid of other taxes soon. Now everything has 10% added to the prices and there is a long chain of paying and claiming taxes that is much more complex than a typical US state's sales tax. The resulting paperwork is causing some small businesses lots of problems.
What would happen if a bunch of Linux coders from Canada sued the goverment agency asking for their cut?
The sr71 needs a very good autopilot or else you end up hundreds of miles of course.
Like most autopilots today, its a bunch mechanical gyroscopes and a bit of electronics and a few servos.
You haven't delt with airplane lights have you.
A UL approved lightbulb will have a fuse in it. It will also meet quite a few requirements such as breakage resistance. From what I can tell, the lightbulbs for some restraunt applications are much better than the overpriced relabled auto lights that go in the wings of small planes.
I don't see any real problems with the ship you described.
They have paper charts. The ocean doesn't change all that much and if they don't have their PC, they may break some regulation or not be able to find some radio beacon or not know some lighthouse has been replaced but thouse things don't happen all that often and may not be reflected on the charts for months if not years anyway.
The GPS feeding the computer is a one way thing. The GPS spits out stuff in a format called NMEA by its creator the Natl Marine Electronics Association. If the PC dies, you look at the GPS display.
As far as using the GPS to get a position and it going down, well people have been taking long voyages in boats for at least 5000 years and not getting lost. Capt Cook and his clan would get star sightings a few times a week in some cases and those were good for a position down to about 100km or so even on a rocky boat.
Of course their email system is going to get hacked at some point by a virus or while its connected but with sat phone costs, I expect they don't stay online all that long.
And then you have bloat issues.
Take sendmail for example. Most of the exploits over the last 15 years have been a result of
1) external programs causing problems
2) operating system bugs
3) trusted interfaces that were wrong
The core isn't the problem, its all the other fluff on top of it.
The same could be said for ISS and even Win NT.
Is this just one more bit of spin to start a new arms race? Anyone with 1/2 clue will see that the arms race with the great evil Russia resulted in lots of new cool stuff and put the US in the lead with technology. Now most of that stuff is made in third world countries and imported. The US has a nasty unemployment problem with its technical sector and an arms race would get enough of the American public behind it to justify the expenses.
Most Muslims don't give a rats ass about the US vs Sadam or al Quada. What they care about is US policty starving kids in Iraq and the camps in Palestine.
They have a slight mistrust for the US just like the US had a mistrust of scientifc findings of the Russians durring the cold war. The whole bin Laden thing is a real mess because the Laden construction companies (this include Osama and others) built most of the modern hospitals in the Middle East and now the US (remember it isn't trusted) is saying this man is a monster. Because of the lack of good press in the region, the people haven't heard of his more recent actions -- all they know is their local hospital has his name on a plaque. These people are going to react the same way as most Americans would if the Rusians had announced that Mother Theresa was evil and needed an exorcism.
Dubya has a case of "I learned it from my daddy". Ever work with an engineer who's fater was an engineer? They tend to think they are experts in that field too and are usualy wrong.
Did anyone tell Dubya that his daddy and sadam where pals until there was a bit of a misunderstanding about a line in the sand? I think in a few decades we will find out that Sadam was simply a punishment to Kuwait for its lack of understanding in the arrest of two American nurses that have voilated some Arab custom.
Funny you mention Australia.
There is a large group of hippy people that intend to storm the Pine Gap listening post at Easter and shut it down.
Most of the skinheads I've meet would have been first in line at a concentration camp under the rule of the real nazis.
Remember the Hitler and crew didn't get into power by doing the atrocities we remember them for, they got into power convincing a great deal of people they were dragging Germany out of the economic cesspool it was in and restoring its pride.
perl has the concept of barewords. They are just like a normal variable but they don't have the $ in front. A STDIO is a common one that appears in many programs. With the right module, you can redefine perl to look like just about anything for example Perligata which changes the parsing rules to a latin form where the subject of the verb is defined by its suffix.
/. had a story about many odd languages. While some (most?) of them seem quite useless, if writing a program in them opens your mind, it can make you a better coder. For example brainf*ck is a pure turing language with 8 instructions -- risc taken all the way down. Hardware desgined to run brainf*ck could be clocked at the several hundred Ghz and could be piplined like mad.
A few days ago
Thats only a few bits away from ~42
Interesting theory. The problems I see with it are by the time the Greeks got good at going long distances, Egypt was well into its decline.
The typical Irish red-head gene is also found on the south eastern coast of Africa (in an area that has some of the oldest stone buildings around)
The term Pharaoh comes from Arabia and may never been used in ancient Egypt. The name Egypt comes from the bible and when the French found the cool stuff near Giza, they assumed that it was the same place as the Mosses story and named the place Aegypt. At least because of the stability of Latin and their translation from Greek, we have a good idea how to pronounce names like Cleopatra but we know languages change over time but its hard to figure out how to pronounce a city's name that was represented as a symbol.
The boat that was found under the pyramid in Giza was only slightly smaller than the Mayflower. While it wasn't built for ocean voyages, it does seem to be built stronger than the repoduction of the Mayflower I saw.
A common picture in tombs have a picture of the deceased holding a knife to the neck of an Indian or Ethiopian. There are reports that they knew of at least four other races 3000 years ago. There are almost no detailed drawings of ships or maps. There are also reports that the Egypteans didn't go far in their ships but hired crews from other areas. Maybe they had some superstition about going too far from home.
Some of the survey maps from 3000 to 5000 years ago have areas that are very accurate. As in better than the ones done in the 1800's by the French and require round earth calculations. There is an map of the entire coast of Africa in the British Museum so someone was going long distances in boats and getting back. I'm not sure the ones that got to Australia ever got back since a long boat at that time had a high risk of being a one way trip to fish food.
They say they have 2900 cu ft of documents. If thats all microfiche density it could be about 4 billion letter sized documents.
A few years ago I read a book that a huge "C" on the front. It wasn't about the language but about conspiracies and espionage. It had covered such things like a cannon ball price war in Portugal started by the British which resulted in the Spanish Armada being equiped with lower quality armourments. I think it was a better written book than the one covered by this review.
The peak of the legal profession for many is to get a job as a judge. In most states, you generaly have to spend some time being a public defender. Once you spend some quality time there (and don't win too much but show you could have), then you can work your way into the prosecution sied of things and if you win there most of the time, you have a chance to be a judge.
What the world needs more of is judges without law degrees. Some would argue that a judge needs to know the law but thats why we have the prosecution. Many of the well respected country judges don't have a law degree and they do a great job.
I've got a GPRS phone (a Nokia 8310) and so far I have not been able to use it on two of the three networks in Australia. I've got a GPRS PCMICA card and its about the same story. Untill I see it work, I'm putting GPRS in the same category as Ponds and Fleischmann's cold fusion.
The rate I should be paying (assuming it worked), is AU$.22/1000 bytes. I figure thats about about US$117 per megabyte or about 60,000 times what wireless data should cost based on other services.
Imode works and people can afford it to do the routine things they want to do. Thats why its good.
NTT is about to do to Motorola what Sony did to them 2 decades ago.
The DoCoMo phones are so far ahead of what complacent US companies have been spewing out. Hopeful this time Motorola will wake up before they have to kill off another profitable industry like they did with their TV and radio divisions
My comment hasn't been listed so either they didn't get it or they didn't publish it.
The same way as opening a door with a broken lock can also be considered breaking an entering.
There is a backup center near the Tulsa airport.
Geographicly the center of the US would be the major hub of your preferred airline. Getting from a minor city like Tulsa to another minor city may require two plane changes where you can from from Atlanta to just about any minor city direct.