Most people are finding they can go out and replace their 1 yr old server with one thats 2x as fast according to the market speak but find that when they install it, its 10% faster if that. This has resulted in lots of comapines rolling out lots of lower priced boxes as servers and is hurting the server R&D budgets. The last time I was at Fry's, the fastest computers they had were all in the "games" area and not the "server" area.
I just wonder if the hard core gamers will spend enough to keep compaines like nVidia in business.
you relay the signal...
That can be done with fiber optics. You could just string it along the surface of the moon. I'm not sure you would even need to have it in a jacket.
The other option is towers. Since gravity isn't as much of an issue and wind isn't a problem, you could build some tall towers. However since the moon curves more than the earth, you would need quite a few of them. Because of the size of mountains on the moon, you may not need any towers at all. You get line of site and the air isn't in the way.
I suspect the most cost effective way would be tempted to run very thinly jacketed fiber cable and bury it a few inches.
2) US economic value as a whole goes down. So, along with it, down come land prices (lower demand for a fixed resource) so down come prices (lower rents / mortgages) so down comes the cost of living.
Your forgetting that your retirement fund is based largely on the concept that its land holdings will increase in value over time and related issues. When land values go down, there is a serious upset that ripples through the entire economey which is why goverments try so hard to keep real estate values from being unstable.
Poor countries can only go up. The rich counties will have to get fix their pyramid schemes.
Video Tapes will last much longer than DVD when small kids are dealing with them. DVD's start to pixelize when they get scratched and where a CD will still work with many scratches, a DVD may not. If they kid is old enough that they are no longer shoving stuff in the vidoe player, Tapes will last much longer and a DVD.
Since that was marked troll, I'll blow more karma...
With most operations, 64 bits isn't 2x as fast its 1x as fast unless you deal with the stack in which case it could be even slower.
Addressing has little to do with word size. The 8088 shows that.
Suns running in 64 bit mode are offten slower than running in 32 bit mode.
Nintendo 64 games are all 32 bit code with just a few 64 bit operations. The good emulator proved that.
As far as going two 32 bit ops at once, I still don't need a 64 bit data path to do that, I just need several 32 bit data paths. What I don't need is to dump a bunch of unused 64 bit number on the stack everytime an exception happens (which one of my computers has done about 1047563950 times in the last 51 days)
And how much N64 code is 64bit? The spinning logo is hte only 64 bit code I've seen in any N64 game. The logo was written by the SGI guys to show how to use the hardware properly.
99.99% of everything my computers does is <32 bits. So if I get a 64 bit cpu, does that mean that my computer can slag around extra unused bits just for fun?
If you look at the GPS sats you will find they transmit a an encrypted signal for military use. If you have the crypt code you can decode the stream and figure out where the 1st bit is which signals the start of a frame. Inside that frame you get enough info to tell how far away you are from it. Someone (at Trimble?) figured out that the last bit of the frame is truncated so the timing packet always starts a the right time. Now the survey grade GPS recivers just look for a bit that is jsut a bit wrong and use that. They pick up the other timing signals from the other frequency and store the data. You can compare that later and do some high precision work (some claim sub mm).
Another thing is the GPS sats used to shift their packets a bit to throw off the Russians (who had a better system). Someone (claiming to be Russian) posted polynomial to usenet describing it. That was a major part of its security. (and I'll have to dig up that post now that google has stuff from the dark ages)
The last secure by obscurity one way hash I cracked took me about 3 days. It wasn't nearly as good as they would have liked.
Based on some of the things I've seen...
give some of my friends a good reason and enough to play with your toys and you might see a cool reentry.
If what your playing with can be a weapon, call your local spooks and explain the situation to them. Its in their best interest not to have your bird go down. The NSA does have a group that may provide some very useful to your company -- they were providing some good ideas on one project I was involved with for a while for a well known company.
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Is that like Tahiti using the French Franc? Everything except hotel rooms were about 1/3 cheaper if you used the US$ there and since their major bank is in Hawaii, it sort of makes sense to to use the currency that your bank prefers.
In Egypt (and most of Africa) it wasn't unheard of for locals to buy land using US$. Off thing about the $100 bills floating about that part of the world is they were printed on the best presses the US goverment could buy and had give to Iran (\bq?)
I wonder who forgot to remove the plates. Its difficult to use a real $100 in Egypt, they much prefer the fake ones.
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It seems that Hong Kong and Tiawan have quite stable countries... the US$. In dealing with compaines in both area, we could never pay in local currency, only US$
Where NZ has a larger $2 coin and a smaller $1 coin. The results are often confused kiwi's working in cafes for a few days.
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A US?
or were you tring to use some funky symbol thats not in my char set?
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Why not call it what it is...
its an E$
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The goverments didn't understand rounding when they locked down the rates...
Most prices are set so they have a nice psychological point. This is why cars in the US are adversied as $19,999 and not 20 grand. Without a E$.25 coin, the price of coffee isn't going to.75 but will soon go to 1.00.
Australia uses the same 1/5 dollar coins like the euro and not the 1/4 coins like the US (and major chunk of the world). It looks like another pretend metric thing (like A4 paper) but I think it will result in higher prices for many small goods as the psychological price point creaps up.
I find that in places with the.50,.20 coins, the number of high value coins that end up in my pocket increases but I never seem to have the right amount to get rid of them. Maybe its a result of years of the years of using US money but I like having $1 notes, they are much lighter than $1 coins.
The US keeps talking about having $1 coins (and has had many in use since 1976) for vending machines. One problem woth that is the cost of moving the money around. In Australia (with $2 coins worht about 1 $usd) the people who remove the coins out of vending machines have a wheeled cart because of the heavy load. Its not unreasonable for the people who are emptying the parking meters to have a few hundred pounds of coins and because that many coins has quite some value, you have to have armed guards to empty most vending machines so prices go up as do losses from theft. A few months ago someone was using a hacksaw to remove the parking meters outside my house at 3am.
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I know a guy who used to do payday loans/loan sharking at one place I worked. He would not charge interest if you paid him back in two dollar notes which involved going to the bank and asking for them and then showing up two days latter when they arrived and hope they hadn't given them all away.
The US$2 note was introduced in 1976.
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Most of the unneeded work was because that some power hungry idiots decided they couldn't use a symbol that was already in the ASCII chart and picked a new one.
Remember the process of spending an E$ is called euronating.
You know places like Fiji, Floridia Keys, Tahiti, Red Sea...
I'm still looking for a nice tech job where I can dive ever other day and will pay for toys.
Most of the Marine Biologist I've meet seem to have fun like Paddy who gives daily lectures to scuba divers at Reef Teach. If your going diving off the Great Barrier Reef, you should see his show first.
If anyone cares, I've got a list of places I've been diving here. BTW, I learned to dive in Missouri...
Apple and Microsoft used to have a very cosy relationship. Remember the microsoft compilers for the Apple ][/III? Remember that if you wanted to run real business applications you needed the MS cobol compiler?
Apple didn't get serious about doing their own software until after a few ideas they handed to MS ended up helping other computer compaines.
I'm not sure how much of Excel was designed by Apple but their gui people most likly came up with the entire gui design.
The Unix Word file format was much like what they use now and not like the early dos word format. It had a text like file format as well (I used it to export to TeX) that was hacked into rtf. In 1986 MS Word/Unix was on the GSA contract (which means US govt depts could buy it with out too much problem and why we had it in '87) As far as which was first the Mac or Unix versions, I suspect that they were derived from the same core. Remember that PC software at that time had to deal with memroy in 64K windows and was assembly. MS was going places with Xenix at the time and it (as well as AT&T Unix) and the Mac didn't have the 64k windowing and allowed software to be written in other languages such as C and Pascal.
Excel was first on the Mac but it was designed by Apple and given to MS because Apple had to have a killer app and at that time, louts was the killer app for PC's.
Scary as it sounds.... Word as we know it today (the multi-font proportional spacing,hierarchical memory structures) started life as a rewrite of something else (word for dos?) and it ran under real Unix[tm]. I remember MS Word for Unix running on an AT&T 3b2 and displaying on a vt100 clone back in 1987.
Boeing sees this as a way to bring in lots of planes for expensive refits. The problem is that once installed, it will either be every epensive and not used by the cuostmers (like the phones) or cheap where it could pay its self off. Is it wireless in the cabin? With the quality of some of the wan cards, I expect that would be short lived as once a bad card messes up and ADF or VOR. Maybe they will just run ethernet to the seats. Its got the advantage that its cheap and you know who is using it.
I would be willing to pay up to $5/hr for ethernet on a plane but it better be quick. DHCP is fine but its got to be bi-directional so some of the NAT tricks wouldn't work. I would also need power for thouse long trips (LAX->MEL is 17hrs).
The dish network recivers for the Cessna jets are a samll dish (10in?) that have a fast tracker on
them that sits on top of the rudder. Nice little devices.
Most public universities has not grown by much more than 20% in the past 40 years. Many of these same schools have not increase their teaching staff sizes in many fields in that entire time. Most of thouse schools are running with a admin staff that is huge compared with what was needed 40 years ago. For example in 1996 Univ Missouri Columbuia hired 18,204 people (1,599 were faculty). Compare that to the 22,356 students they had enrolled. Its got a hostpital that changes the ratio a bit but most schools are way out of line with the size of admin staff.
I added some car sound insulation liners on the sides of my case. They are some sort of tar with foil on one side and come precut at 1sq ft. It dropped the noise quite a bit.
What I want is a decent sleep system. I've got 1/2 gig of ram and IDE drives that know how to sleep. Can't someone figure out how to get the kernal sync code to figure out if the drive is sleeping and postpone needless writes?
IBM wanted to get in the PC business to stop Apple and Radio Shack from killing their mini business. They contracted out the design of 3 machines and picked the lamest (that was just bettter than the Appleand & TRS) and went with that.
I think IBM's intention was to kill Apple and Tandy and then just close down the PC line and say "oh we had problems with the toy computers and we don't sell them anymore"
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Gaming is all that is left to drive PC tech.
Most people are finding they can go out and replace their 1 yr old server with one thats 2x as fast according to the market speak but find that when they install it, its 10% faster if that. This has resulted in lots of comapines rolling out lots of lower priced boxes as servers and is hurting the server R&D budgets. The last time I was at Fry's, the fastest computers they had were all in the "games" area and not the "server" area.
I just wonder if the hard core gamers will spend enough to keep compaines like nVidia in business.
you relay the signal...
That can be done with fiber optics. You could just string it along the surface of the moon. I'm not sure you would even need to have it in a jacket.
The other option is towers. Since gravity isn't as much of an issue and wind isn't a problem, you could build some tall towers. However since the moon curves more than the earth, you would need quite a few of them. Because of the size of mountains on the moon, you may not need any towers at all. You get line of site and the air isn't in the way.
I suspect the most cost effective way would be tempted to run very thinly jacketed fiber cable and bury it a few inches.
2) US economic value as a whole goes down. So, along with it, down come land prices (lower demand for a fixed resource) so down come prices (lower rents / mortgages) so down comes the cost of living.
Your forgetting that your retirement fund is based largely on the concept that its land holdings will increase in value over time and related issues. When land values go down, there is a serious upset that ripples through the entire economey which is why goverments try so hard to keep real estate values from being unstable.
Poor countries can only go up. The rich counties will have to get fix their pyramid schemes.
Video Tapes will last much longer than DVD when small kids are dealing with them. DVD's start to pixelize when they get scratched and where a CD will still work with many scratches, a DVD may not. If they kid is old enough that they are no longer shoving stuff in the vidoe player, Tapes will last much longer and a DVD.
Its more like 9) We wait for 10 years till we make The Hobbit
10) We won't do DVD, we are waiting for the next best thing.
Since that was marked troll, I'll blow more karma...
With most operations, 64 bits isn't 2x as fast its 1x as fast unless you deal with the stack in which case it could be even slower.
Addressing has little to do with word size. The 8088 shows that.
Suns running in 64 bit mode are offten slower than running in 32 bit mode.
Nintendo 64 games are all 32 bit code with just a few 64 bit operations. The good emulator proved that.
As far as going two 32 bit ops at once, I still don't need a 64 bit data path to do that, I just need several 32 bit data paths. What I don't need is to dump a bunch of unused 64 bit number on the stack everytime an exception happens (which one of my computers has done about 1047563950 times in the last 51 days)
And how much N64 code is 64bit? The spinning logo is hte only 64 bit code I've seen in any N64 game. The logo was written by the SGI guys to show how to use the hardware properly.
99.99% of everything my computers does is <32 bits. So if I get a 64 bit cpu, does that mean that my computer can slag around extra unused bits just for fun?
If you look at the GPS sats you will find they transmit a an encrypted signal for military use. If you have the crypt code you can decode the stream and figure out where the 1st bit is which signals the start of a frame. Inside that frame you get enough info to tell how far away you are from it. Someone (at Trimble?) figured out that the last bit of the frame is truncated so the timing packet always starts a the right time. Now the survey grade GPS recivers just look for a bit that is jsut a bit wrong and use that. They pick up the other timing signals from the other frequency and store the data. You can compare that later and do some high precision work (some claim sub mm).
Another thing is the GPS sats used to shift their packets a bit to throw off the Russians (who had a better system). Someone (claiming to be Russian) posted polynomial to usenet describing it. That was a major part of its security. (and I'll have to dig up that post now that google has stuff from the dark ages)
The last secure by obscurity one way hash I cracked took me about 3 days. It wasn't nearly as good as they would have liked.
Based on some of the things I've seen...
give some of my friends a good reason and enough to play with your toys and you might see a cool reentry.
If what your playing with can be a weapon, call your local spooks and explain the situation to them. Its in their best interest not to have your bird go down. The NSA does have a group that may provide some very useful to your company -- they were providing some good ideas on one project I was involved with for a while for a well known company.
So can Id sue the EU?
Is that like Tahiti using the French Franc? Everything except hotel rooms were about 1/3 cheaper if you used the US$ there and since their major bank is in Hawaii, it sort of makes sense to to use the currency that your bank prefers.
In Egypt (and most of Africa) it wasn't unheard of for locals to buy land using US$. Off thing about the $100 bills floating about that part of the world is they were printed on the best presses the US goverment could buy and had give to Iran (\bq?)
I wonder who forgot to remove the plates. Its difficult to use a real $100 in Egypt, they much prefer the fake ones.
It seems that Hong Kong and Tiawan have quite stable countries... the US$. In dealing with compaines in both area, we could never pay in local currency, only US$
Where NZ has a larger $2 coin and a smaller $1 coin. The results are often confused kiwi's working in cafes for a few days.
A US?
or were you tring to use some funky symbol thats not in my char set?
Why not call it what it is...
its an E$
The goverments didn't understand rounding when they locked down the rates...
.75 but will soon go to 1.00.
.50,.20 coins, the number of high value coins that end up in my pocket increases but I never seem to have the right amount to get rid of them. Maybe its a result of years of the years of using US money but I like having $1 notes, they are much lighter than $1 coins.
Most prices are set so they have a nice psychological point. This is why cars in the US are adversied as $19,999 and not 20 grand. Without a E$.25 coin, the price of coffee isn't going to
Australia uses the same 1/5 dollar coins like the euro and not the 1/4 coins like the US (and major chunk of the world). It looks like another pretend metric thing (like A4 paper) but I think it will result in higher prices for many small goods as the psychological price point creaps up.
I find that in places with the
The US keeps talking about having $1 coins (and has had many in use since 1976) for vending machines. One problem woth that is the cost of moving the money around. In Australia (with $2 coins worht about 1 $usd) the people who remove the coins out of vending machines have a wheeled cart because of the heavy load. Its not unreasonable for the people who are emptying the parking meters to have a few hundred pounds of coins and because that many coins has quite some value, you have to have armed guards to empty most vending machines so prices go up as do losses from theft. A few months ago someone was using a hacksaw to remove the parking meters outside my house at 3am.
I know a guy who used to do payday loans/loan sharking at one place I worked. He would not charge interest if you paid him back in two dollar notes which involved going to the bank and asking for them and then showing up two days latter when they arrived and hope they hadn't given them all away.
The US$2 note was introduced in 1976.
Most of the unneeded work was because that some power hungry idiots decided they couldn't use a symbol that was already in the ASCII chart and picked a new one.
Remember the process of spending an E$ is called euronating.
You know places like Fiji, Floridia Keys, Tahiti, Red Sea...
I'm still looking for a nice tech job where I can dive ever other day and will pay for toys.
Most of the Marine Biologist I've meet seem to have fun like Paddy who gives daily lectures to scuba divers at Reef Teach. If your going diving off the Great Barrier Reef, you should see his show first.
If anyone cares, I've got a list of places I've been diving here. BTW, I learned to dive in Missouri...
Apple and Microsoft used to have a very cosy relationship. Remember the microsoft compilers for the Apple ][/III? Remember that if you wanted to run real business applications you needed the MS cobol compiler?
Apple didn't get serious about doing their own software until after a few ideas they handed to MS ended up helping other computer compaines.
I'm not sure how much of Excel was designed by Apple but their gui people most likly came up with the entire gui design.
The Unix Word file format was much like what they use now and not like the early dos word format. It had a text like file format as well (I used it to export to TeX) that was hacked into rtf. In 1986 MS Word/Unix was on the GSA contract (which means US govt depts could buy it with out too much problem and why we had it in '87) As far as which was first the Mac or Unix versions, I suspect that they were derived from the same core. Remember that PC software at that time had to deal with memroy in 64K windows and was assembly. MS was going places with Xenix at the time and it (as well as AT&T Unix) and the Mac didn't have the 64k windowing and allowed software to be written in other languages such as C and Pascal.
Excel was first on the Mac but it was designed by Apple and given to MS because Apple had to have a killer app and at that time, louts was the killer app for PC's.
Scary as it sounds.... Word as we know it today (the multi-font proportional spacing,hierarchical memory structures) started life as a rewrite of something else (word for dos?) and it ran under real Unix[tm]. I remember MS Word for Unix running on an AT&T 3b2 and displaying on a vt100 clone back in 1987.
Boeing sees this as a way to bring in lots of planes for expensive refits. The problem is that once installed, it will either be every epensive and not used by the cuostmers (like the phones) or cheap where it could pay its self off. Is it wireless in the cabin? With the quality of some of the wan cards, I expect that would be short lived as once a bad card messes up and ADF or VOR. Maybe they will just run ethernet to the seats. Its got the advantage that its cheap and you know who is using it.
I would be willing to pay up to $5/hr for ethernet on a plane but it better be quick. DHCP is fine but its got to be bi-directional so some of the NAT tricks wouldn't work. I would also need power for thouse long trips (LAX->MEL is 17hrs).
The dish network recivers for the Cessna jets are a samll dish (10in?) that have a fast tracker on
them that sits on top of the rudder. Nice little devices.
Most public universities has not grown by much more than 20% in the past 40 years. Many of these same schools have not increase their teaching staff sizes in many fields in that entire time. Most of thouse schools are running with a admin staff that is huge compared with what was needed 40 years ago. For example in 1996 Univ Missouri Columbuia hired 18,204 people (1,599 were faculty). Compare that to the 22,356 students they had enrolled. Its got a hostpital that changes the ratio a bit but most schools are way out of line with the size of admin staff.
I added some car sound insulation liners on the sides of my case. They are some sort of tar with foil on one side and come precut at 1sq ft. It dropped the noise quite a bit.
What I want is a decent sleep system. I've got 1/2 gig of ram and IDE drives that know how to sleep. Can't someone figure out how to get the kernal sync code to figure out if the drive is sleeping and postpone needless writes?
IBM wanted to get in the PC business to stop Apple and Radio Shack from killing their mini business. They contracted out the design of 3 machines and picked the lamest (that was just bettter than the Appleand & TRS) and went with that.
I think IBM's intention was to kill Apple and Tandy and then just close down the PC line and say "oh we had problems with the toy computers and we don't sell them anymore"