I want a SPARC IIIi running at 65 or 45nm with modern gig ethernet. It would be far more than I need for my apps. I would like it in a box the size of the Netra X1 and running any OS the old ones could run like Solaris 9. It would be cool if they were $1000 each like the old X1 or V100. I might buy several hundred in that case. Meanwhile I'm buying old X1 systems and putting in SSD and replacing fans and power supplies and hoping for the best.
And I have loads that are faster on the old X1 than the t1000 so I don't want that junk.
AM transmitters still use vacuum tubes for the last transmission stage. They tend to be kept in a vault like device since they tend to make a huge mess when they go bad. When you short out their output with the wrong impedance, they can become very high power amps powering what effectively is a spark gap transmitter which will transmit on lots of frequencies that the AM station won't ever normally transmit on. Depending on the tuning of the crashing tower and the state of charge of the power caps, the idiot driving the heavy machinery might have been looking directly at an equivalent of a 5 million watt microwave for a fraction of a second at a distance of 10 feet or so.
The T1 only has hardware to help with the initial key exchange. SSL traffic starts with an RSA key exchange using a a huge public/private key and then uses a block cypher like DES or SHA or RC4 to encrypt the data using the key that was exchanged via the RSA encryption. The T1 can't do block cyphers quickly and only has the first part speeded up. I found that my amd based X2100 would catch up to the T1 based T1000 after about 3000 bytes of an SSL stream and then quickly pass it. I've been told that the T1 was supposed to have block cypher hardware but maybe it was buggy and was disabled. Anyway sun should kill the T1 since its slow and expensive. Maybe thats their intent with their new T3120 but few details have been released.
The SSA simply needs to announce that from next January, all new SSNs issued will be 22+ digits long and will be identical for the first or last 9 digits. They wouldn't have to do it, but it would force lots of places to plan for a future change. They could also start putting in a checksum on some new cards or throwing in letters. Remember the common mod 10 checksum used for things like credit cards was designed to work with EBCDIC letters.
Radio shack has been selling components only to look like a "high tech" store for more than 25+ years. They don't care what is in the blister packs in the back since its just a marketing prop. This appears to have been going on since the days that the transistor killed the vacuum tube yet they would have a (often non-functional) tube tester in a prominent position in the store. It gave their average customer a warn fuzzy feeling that they knew what they were doing or else they wouldn't have that hagh tech stuff in the shop right?
I remember Microsoft Word was the only program that would routinely crash on an AT&T 3B2 in 1986. The Vt100 style AT&T terminals weren't fun but deep at its core Word was nasty then and its nasty now.
Standard in the US is 0 in the 1st year and then 10 after that. I have a program that calculates my time here in Australia: > You now have 46.7096784627093 days of unused holiday time Thats would be over 10 weeks based on normal holidays that that thrown in. I also have long service leave which gives me 4 more weeks so I could take of more than a quarter of year and still get paid normally. oh wait... not normally... I get leave loading which means I get paid extra while taking holiday time for overtime that I might have missed even though I never get paid overtime anyway.
The RIAA's members don't want lots of products. They are in the business of selling plastic things and the fact that music is on it has little to do with most of the distribution channel. There is just way too much music to deal with as CDs in a store. A few years ago a local radio station ran a contest where bands had to submit an album (7+ songs?) and nominated a song that wasn't a cover and it had to have been produced in the previous year. The radio station had a coverage area of about 3 million people and they got 3000 albums. To me that means the billion people that have access to the equipment should be able to produce about a million unique albums a year. How many can a record store stock?
I think the biggest killer of CD sales was the "Digital Remastered" phase where they insisted that all the albums have the same volume level for all the songs. They "fixed" the songs by running them through an auto-compressor which chops off the loudest bits of the song (causing distortion) and boosting the level of the rest of the music. The result is it kills the emotion that people used to feel with for the music. Some music tricks the auto compressor into not doing anything and some examples of that are the popular tracks of Jacko's Thriller and most rap. As long as Clear Channel sticks with their requirements and they stay so cozy with the RIAA, this is not going to change.
There was a time when the RIAA did good things. They set standards that made recoded music sound much better. Too bad they lost the plot long ago.
A USB keyboard will still do a slow scan of row and column and the resistance will go up per keypress and that is what they are looking at. If you can identify the scan frequency, then you can look for current changes at the right times and reconstruct the matrix of key presses. Since most PCs use the same matrix, its trivial to convert the matrix with unknown start values into known start values once you find 0x39 (space bar) shifted some random way and frequently pressed.
Too bad most of the car GPS units are useless for off road activities. I used one for a bit that had topo maps but you had to reboot it into a different program that couldn't share waypoints or points of interest between the two mapping programs.
The plants in China don't scrub it at all and they sell power to companies that aren't subsidized at about $.004 / kwh. CFL manufactures may not pay anywhere near that but figure the glass has to be melted 3 times to make a CFL and once to make and old school bulb and you might find the CO2 and mercury emissions are worse for a CFL that other options.
The people who recycle CFL are finding they can pull 8 mg out of the bulb within about 5 minutes in a very expensive hot oven. Mercury also ends up in the glass (which should be leaded glass) which is why no one wants to buy the glass from recycled CFLs. There is also the issue that the mercury in a CFL is either in a vapor state or bound to something that makes it far easier to bond with carbon. The organic versions of mercury are very toxic compared to the liquid forms.
I have bulbs with power factors of.2. Throw in the fact that a cheap 11W (that takes 20) bulb which will only replace a 45W bulb when its new will be providing half the light in a few thousand hours.
I have a several power meters that can read power factor and a light meter and the facts I see don't agree with the figures on the box.
LaTeX isn't the solution but its close. LaTeX is just a complex module that defines lots of macros that makes it easy to produce TeX document.
The proper solution is TeX with a new web module that does more modern and web based macros. Get that into Firefox and a free module for IE and people will start to use it and HTML can die the death it deserved back in the 1980s.
Many green solutions have no positive ROI at all. Here in Australia most houses have large vents that were needed when houses were hated with fireplaces. Many people think their houses are too stuffy if they get closed so they stay open. There is a government grant to add fibreglass like insulation to these houses. There is no point insulating a house that has nearly a square meter of vents open to the outside. Double glazed windows are still very much a premium feature which aren't even available on many new houses. Another one of my favourites is the cheap CFLs which dim so fast that they are less efficient than an incandescent bulb within a 1000 hours yet will continue to produce inefficient light for years while abusing the grid with a nasty power factor.
How do you get China to even tell the truth? Major light bulb companies have been saying they are targeting less than 5 mg of mercury in CFL for years yet the few people who can recycle the things can easily pull an average of 8 mg out using a quick process. You can't do cradle to grave analysis when the manufacturing costs are a state secret.
The inertial nav system all ready has those numbers and might even have a good idea of the last known wind speed.
The problem is that at high cruise the stall speed and the Vne (Never Exceed) can be very close as in two digits in km/hr and hte Va (speed to cruse when you hit turbulence) is within single digits of the stall speed.
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I want a SPARC IIIi running at 65 or 45nm with modern gig ethernet. It would be far more than I need for my apps. I would like it in a box the size of the Netra X1 and running any OS the old ones could run like Solaris 9. It would be cool if they were $1000 each like the old X1 or V100. I might buy several hundred in that case. Meanwhile I'm buying old X1 systems and putting in SSD and replacing fans and power supplies and hoping for the best.
And I have loads that are faster on the old X1 than the t1000 so I don't want that junk.
AM transmitters still use vacuum tubes for the last transmission stage. They tend to be kept in a vault like device since they tend to make a huge mess when they go bad. When you short out their output with the wrong impedance, they can become very high power amps powering what effectively is a spark gap transmitter which will transmit on lots of frequencies that the AM station won't ever normally transmit on. Depending on the tuning of the crashing tower and the state of charge of the power caps, the idiot driving the heavy machinery might have been looking directly at an equivalent of a 5 million watt microwave for a fraction of a second at a distance of 10 feet or so.
The T1 only has hardware to help with the initial key exchange. SSL traffic starts with an RSA key exchange using a a huge public/private key and then uses a block cypher like DES or SHA or RC4 to encrypt the data using the key that was exchanged via the RSA encryption. The T1 can't do block cyphers quickly and only has the first part speeded up. I found that my amd based X2100 would catch up to the T1 based T1000 after about 3000 bytes of an SSL stream and then quickly pass it. I've been told that the T1 was supposed to have block cypher hardware but maybe it was buggy and was disabled. Anyway sun should kill the T1 since its slow and expensive. Maybe thats their intent with their new T3120 but few details have been released.
How do you sue them when they aren't even in the US?
The SSA simply needs to announce that from next January, all new SSNs issued will be 22+ digits long and will be identical for the first or last 9 digits. They wouldn't have to do it, but it would force lots of places to plan for a future change. They could also start putting in a checksum on some new cards or throwing in letters. Remember the common mod 10 checksum used for things like credit cards was designed to work with EBCDIC letters.
Are you talking two weeks accrued by the end of the 1st year?
Are you the type of person who tunes into MTV for music?
In my years of working in the US, I never had a job with any vacation time in the 1st year other that normal holidays.
Radio shack has been selling components only to look like a "high tech" store for more than 25+ years. They don't care what is in the blister packs in the back since its just a marketing prop. This appears to have been going on since the days that the transistor killed the vacuum tube yet they would have a (often non-functional) tube tester in a prominent position in the store. It gave their average customer a warn fuzzy feeling that they knew what they were doing or else they wouldn't have that hagh tech stuff in the shop right?
I remember Microsoft Word was the only program that would routinely crash on an AT&T 3B2 in 1986. The Vt100 style AT&T terminals weren't fun but deep at its core Word was nasty then and its nasty now.
Standard in the US is 0 in the 1st year and then 10 after that.
I have a program that calculates my time here in Australia:
> You now have 46.7096784627093 days of unused holiday time
Thats would be over 10 weeks based on normal holidays that that thrown in.
I also have long service leave which gives me 4 more weeks so I could take of more than a quarter of year and still get paid normally.
oh wait... not normally... I get leave loading which means I get paid extra while taking holiday time for overtime that I might have missed even though I never get paid overtime anyway.
The RIAA's members don't want lots of products. They are in the business of selling plastic things and the fact that music is on it has little to do with most of the distribution channel. There is just way too much music to deal with as CDs in a store. A few years ago a local radio station ran a contest where bands had to submit an album (7+ songs?) and nominated a song that wasn't a cover and it had to have been produced in the previous year. The radio station had a coverage area of about 3 million people and they got 3000 albums. To me that means the billion people that have access to the equipment should be able to produce about a million unique albums a year. How many can a record store stock?
Sometimes the technology can be the problem.
I think the biggest killer of CD sales was the "Digital Remastered" phase where they insisted that all the albums have the same volume level for all the songs. They "fixed" the songs by running them through an auto-compressor which chops off the loudest bits of the song (causing distortion) and boosting the level of the rest of the music. The result is it kills the emotion that people used to feel with for the music. Some music tricks the auto compressor into not doing anything and some examples of that are the popular tracks of Jacko's Thriller and most rap. As long as Clear Channel sticks with their requirements and they stay so cozy with the RIAA, this is not going to change.
There was a time when the RIAA did good things. They set standards that made recoded music sound much better. Too bad they lost the plot long ago.
If you won't name names its not news.
A USB keyboard will still do a slow scan of row and column and the resistance will go up per keypress and that is what they are looking at. If you can identify the scan frequency, then you can look for current changes at the right times and reconstruct the matrix of key presses. Since most PCs use the same matrix, its trivial to convert the matrix with unknown start values into known start values once you find 0x39 (space bar) shifted some random way and frequently pressed.
Too bad most of the car GPS units are useless for off road activities. I used one for a bit that had topo maps but you had to reboot it into a different program that couldn't share waypoints or points of interest between the two mapping programs.
The plants in China don't scrub it at all and they sell power to companies that aren't subsidized at about $.004 / kwh. CFL manufactures may not pay anywhere near that but figure the glass has to be melted 3 times to make a CFL and once to make and old school bulb and you might find the CO2 and mercury emissions are worse for a CFL that other options.
The people who recycle CFL are finding they can pull 8 mg out of the bulb within about 5 minutes in a very expensive hot oven.
Mercury also ends up in the glass (which should be leaded glass) which is why no one wants to buy the glass from recycled CFLs.
There is also the issue that the mercury in a CFL is either in a vapor state or bound to something that makes it far easier to bond with carbon. The organic versions of mercury are very toxic compared to the liquid forms.
I have bulbs with power factors of .2. Throw in the fact that a cheap 11W (that takes 20) bulb which will only replace a 45W bulb when its new will be providing half the light in a few thousand hours.
I have a several power meters that can read power factor and a light meter and the facts I see don't agree with the figures on the box.
LaTeX isn't the solution but its close. LaTeX is just a complex module that defines lots of macros that makes it easy to produce TeX document.
The proper solution is TeX with a new web module that does more modern and web based macros. Get that into Firefox and a free module for IE and people will start to use it and HTML can die the death it deserved back in the 1980s.
Its illegal in many areas to have a taxi meter in a car that isn't a taxi. The law was created to get rid of unlicensed taxi operators.
Its more like for every extra $1 they think they might get in the future they will spend $1.25 today.
Many green solutions have no positive ROI at all. Here in Australia most houses have large vents that were needed when houses were hated with fireplaces. Many people think their houses are too stuffy if they get closed so they stay open. There is a government grant to add fibreglass like insulation to these houses. There is no point insulating a house that has nearly a square meter of vents open to the outside. Double glazed windows are still very much a premium feature which aren't even available on many new houses. Another one of my favourites is the cheap CFLs which dim so fast that they are less efficient than an incandescent bulb within a 1000 hours yet will continue to produce inefficient light for years while abusing the grid with a nasty power factor.
How do you get China to even tell the truth? Major light bulb companies have been saying they are targeting less than 5 mg of mercury in CFL for years yet the few people who can recycle the things can easily pull an average of 8 mg out using a quick process. You can't do cradle to grave analysis when the manufacturing costs are a state secret.
The inertial nav system all ready has those numbers and might even have a good idea of the last known wind speed.
The problem is that at high cruise the stall speed and the Vne (Never Exceed) can be very close as in two digits in km/hr and hte Va (speed to cruse when you hit turbulence) is within single digits of the stall speed.