No they aren't. They are twisted to reduce 50hz losses (unless they get the cable from the wrong place then it will reduce 60hz) but all the high end stuff is going to radiate out. Depending on the twist and frequency, it may leak more than the older style cables.
Mach has an interesting feature where a user app can add its on private system call. This could come in very handy for a emulator. My question is how is this done under OS X in a way that will continue to work with new releases?
My dealings with ACNielsen is they can't even count their own fingers. They have to bribe people to put boxes in their homes which distorts results very badly and there is the problem that the people with the boxes may not reflect the general viewing public.
However AC Nelsens job isn't to count people watching shows. Their job is to provide number so ad agencies and sell ads to companies. Customers watching the ads and buying a product don't figure much (if at all) into the modern advertising business.
Try comparing like figures. The 9.6 mil figure you quote is effectively the high density area around Lake Michigan. If someone in Chicago isn't going to drive to the area to visit friends, its not in the metro area. You don't get lots of people from Gary Indian visiting Milwaukee for the afternoon. If you include all Melbourne's suburbs where people routinely drive to the downtown area, as well as places like Naperville for Chicago you will find they are very close no matter how you want to draw the boundary line of the "metro area" unless you want to pick something like the US regional economic zones which is where the 9 mil figure came from its also called the "Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area". Thats the same as saying the population of Melbourne covers Sydney as well since its about the same geographical area.
The Victorian (Its 2nd biggest state) gov't decided they were going to roll out fiber to all the schools. They gave the nearly monopoly telco $90 million to do it. The result is now the very few regional ISPs that used the schools to help make sure their business plan was solid just lost that to the monopoly telco.
The Fiber they are rolling out is good for 4 megabits a second. Wow!
And for the people winging about the low density... get your facts right 1st. Victoria has about the same population and size as Missouri. Melbourne now has more people than Chicago.
Is that a lie or total BS? If sell me a net connection that isn't usable because you also sell to spamers then I can dump the contract and bail because you didn't provide your end of the deal. Thats all there is to it. Anyone clueless enough to sit and take it doesn't count.
The judge will read the rules and decide that Apple Computer has a real problem for violoating someone elses trademake in the same class. In this case they are both in class 9 so its easy.
Does it matter if it is price fixing? After all copyright gives an author the right to price their product any way they like for the term of the copyright. That appears to mean that price fixing is a right granted by copyright law.
So Apple is doing what sun is doing with their poorly implemented services system.
One problem with one program to start them all is what happens when that one program gets locked. For example it can't start the logging system and so it tries to write to a log which it can't.
There has been lots of work on init over the years on different systems yet it never got properly fixed. The 2nd and 3rd fields in inittab are there to help control behavior when things don't go as planned. Anyone can build a start up system that works fine when everything goes as planned, but it must behave when there are problems. Thats my major gripe about sun's new system. If your disk is slightly messed up, its going to be scribbling to a binary file that must be in a sane shape at the next reboot.
As far as at and cron, the existing systems are good for machines that run 24x7. The problem comes in how do you make sure you do deail and weekly cleanups on lap tops that may or may not be in a good situation to do lots of disk access.
I tend to use inittab to keep things running and on many of my systems, a kill -1 -1 won't have any negative effect. I just wish more programs could be started properly from init.
I think Sun's split personality was due to Bill who left to do other things. Since then, Sun has had one goal and that appears to be to annoy its long time supporters and do every thing they can to change to the M$ way of ding things.
If Tiger Direct was getting calls from people wanting to buy Tiger, then thats all they need to prove there are confused consumers and that means Apple will pay or rebrand since a legal purpose of a trademark is to prevent confusion in consumers minds.
But their sales figures for the mini mac prove that they didn't understand the market because they have to custom build nearly every mini mac that goes out the door.
Apple could change that 40% to 400% if they would bring out a mini mac ][ that is bigger and uses a standard 3.5" disk and a reasonable DVD drive and two memory slots. That alone would allow them major inroads into a much larger market of people who are buying one mini mac now but are holding off till they get their act together.
Of course I'm waiting for them to fix the mouse buttons on their lap tops before I buy anymore of them. They are a nice product but welcome to the 1990's guys.
I should have said "the major expense" but maybe you should read a few annual statements to see just where fuel fits in the grand scheme of airlines costs. Just keep in mind how the accountants spin the costs of the planes.
You get 2x the space but the seat takes up 10x the space but you only pay 5x the cost for 1st class? Most of 1st class seems to be taken up by airline staff flying for free from what I can tell.
Thats why someone is going of make a fortune building an airport somewhere on the north west edge of Mexico. I lost count of the Aussie and Kiwis I know who don't fly through the US any more because of the hassle.
Check out what people are paying for their area in the plane you you'll see that economy class is subsidizing even the very expensive 1st class seats.
On a modern jet, a passengers share of the fuel is less than $20 an hour (with cars being $6 to $12?). Contrary to the "fuel surcharges", the fuel still isn't a major cost of the flight.
This thing is over Hawaii I wonder if it will be viable in Australia. If so it would be nice to be able to get shows a bit early. Most new sats have a huge number of spot beams which makes it tricky to pick them up outside of their transmit pattern. Does anyone know where to find the details?
The 700 mil figure comes from the total amount paid out by the insurance companies. The 10 mil figure was also from insurance docs about expenses they didn't have to pay.
I googled for 'sydney to hobart 1998 million'. The $700m figure shows up on several of the hits.
A Statutory Gov't Body is just a step on the way to privatization.
Billionaires buy senators. Its in the senators best interest to keep them from drowning.
The reason there was a proper investigation of this problem is a result of the rich guys asking WTF? The Aussie gov't changed its policy on selling that data soon after as well.
Why do people keep deleting the printer when they want to delete all the jobs in the que?
What is wrong with CUPS is that its based on lp and lpr. lpr has been around for decades and was a hack to get printers to work over networks and allow smarter processing through filters so you could send you text formatting job off to the fast computer and have it send it to the slow machine that had the cool printer attached.
lp was a hack that come out in the early 80s that tried to do what lpr did but with the ability for admins to have better control and they got rid of some of the concepts like troff typesetters but ignored the new laser printer idea even thought they were starting to show up.
When you build on such fine foundations, it doesn't matter how fancy the new stuff is, its going to sink into the swamp of mediocrity.
I've heard about your bill to limit access to weather data. please research what this has done in Australia and look to how many people have been killed already because of this type of plan. A good place to research is the "sydney to hobart race 1998." That was a boat race but the organizers running the race relied on private weather information since the government had just started privatized the Bureau of Meteorology. The result was that 6 people died, several boats sank and the coast guard spent over 10 million dollars on rescue of the 115 boats. The total bill for "user pays weather" was $700 million dollars.
A second example of why this is wrong involves aviation weather and its resulting deaths. I don't want a small plane falling out of the sky because the pilot didn't get a good weather briefing. Australia also provides evidence that people will not properly check weather if it isn't free and therefor endangering other people.
This ship lives off the coast of Australia. It comes in to port about 2 weeks a year and all other supplies are taken out using other boats. Sure its only 55 people in total but the supply issue is only about 10 times worse for the bigger ship.
They have to be outside of the economic zone to the US not to be able to touch them. However the US is happy to board ships anywhere they choose to. Thats the point of having a strong navy. The coast guard will routinely check ships inside the 12 nmi defense zone.
And yes, I can swim more than 3 miles in the ocean.
Doubling the bit sizes tends to approach squaring of the the power. When you get into things like barrel multipliers, its a more like x^2+x. The big problem is moving more sutff on and off the stack (on stack window) and your need larger caches that hold mostly zeros.
As far as DNA goes (which isn't a general purpose problem like I had mentioned), thats a problem of using the wrong hardware for the job. What you need is a 64k or so bit machine like cray was building before they went bust. Going from 32 to 64 is going to make pointers a tiny bit nicer but what you need is sub word pointers. I've always found that dealing with very large data sets that it works much better to keep the raw data in one place (even if its compressed) and the meta data in another.
My dealings with stock market data systems that track every trade show that the compaines that pack bits as tight as they can by hand end up at the end of the big days with all the data and all the rest are wondering what got lost.
There is one other problem with very big address space. When you start talking about billions of thing words or memory with a MTBF of modern silicon, once the project gets into needing gigs of ram or terabytes of storage, something is always broken and it tends to be broke in a way which will corrupt the data in undetectable ways.
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No they aren't. They are twisted to reduce 50hz losses (unless they get the cable from the wrong place then it will reduce 60hz) but all the high end stuff is going to radiate out. Depending on the twist and frequency, it may leak more than the older style cables.
Mach has an interesting feature where a user app can add its on private system call. This could come in very handy for a emulator. My question is how is this done under OS X in a way that will continue to work with new releases?
My dealings with ACNielsen is they can't even count their own fingers. They have to bribe people to put boxes in their homes which distorts results very badly and there is the problem that the people with the boxes may not reflect the general viewing public.
However AC Nelsens job isn't to count people watching shows. Their job is to provide number so ad agencies and sell ads to companies. Customers watching the ads and buying a product don't figure much (if at all) into the modern advertising business.
Try comparing like figures. The 9.6 mil figure you quote is effectively the high density area around Lake Michigan. If someone in Chicago isn't going to drive to the area to visit friends, its not in the metro area. You don't get lots of people from Gary Indian visiting Milwaukee for the afternoon. If you include all Melbourne's suburbs where people routinely drive to the downtown area, as well as places like Naperville for Chicago you will find they are very close no matter how you want to draw the boundary line of the "metro area" unless you want to pick something like the US regional economic zones which is where the 9 mil figure came from its also called the "Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area". Thats the same as saying the population of Melbourne covers Sydney as well since its about the same geographical area.
The Victorian (Its 2nd biggest state) gov't decided they were going to roll out fiber to all the schools. They gave the nearly monopoly telco $90 million to do it. The result is now the very few regional ISPs that used the schools to help make sure their business plan was solid just lost that to the monopoly telco.
The Fiber they are rolling out is good for 4 megabits a second. Wow!
And for the people winging about the low density... get your facts right 1st. Victoria has about the same population and size as Missouri. Melbourne now has more people than Chicago.
Is that a lie or total BS?
If sell me a net connection that isn't usable because you also sell to spamers then I can dump the contract and bail because you didn't provide your end of the deal. Thats all there is to it. Anyone clueless enough to sit and take it doesn't count.
The judge will read the rules and decide that Apple Computer has a real problem for violoating someone elses trademake in the same class. In this case they are both in class 9 so its easy.
Does it matter if it is price fixing? After all copyright gives an author the right to price their product any way they like for the term of the copyright. That appears to mean that price fixing is a right granted by copyright law.
So Apple is doing what sun is doing with their poorly implemented services system.
One problem with one program to start them all is what happens when that one program gets locked. For example it can't start the logging system and so it tries to write to a log which it can't.
There has been lots of work on init over the years on different systems yet it never got properly fixed. The 2nd and 3rd fields in inittab are there to help control behavior when things don't go as planned. Anyone can build a start up system that works fine when everything goes as planned, but it must behave when there are problems. Thats my major gripe about sun's new system. If your disk is slightly messed up, its going to be scribbling to a binary file that must be in a sane shape at the next reboot.
As far as at and cron, the existing systems are good for machines that run 24x7. The problem comes in how do you make sure you do deail and weekly cleanups on lap tops that may or may not be in a good situation to do lots of disk access.
I tend to use inittab to keep things running and on many of my systems, a kill -1 -1 won't have any negative effect. I just wish more programs could be started properly from init.
I think Sun's split personality was due to Bill who left to do other things. Since then, Sun has had one goal and that appears to be to annoy its long time supporters and do every thing they can to change to the M$ way of ding things.
If Tiger Direct was getting calls from people wanting to buy Tiger, then thats all they need to prove there are confused consumers and that means Apple will pay or rebrand since a legal purpose of a trademark is to prevent confusion in consumers minds.
But their sales figures for the mini mac prove that they didn't understand the market because they have to custom build nearly every mini mac that goes out the door.
Apple could change that 40% to 400% if they would bring out a mini mac ][ that is bigger and uses a standard 3.5" disk and a reasonable DVD drive and two memory slots. That alone would allow them major inroads into a much larger market of people who are buying one mini mac now but are holding off till they get their act together.
Of course I'm waiting for them to fix the mouse buttons on their lap tops before I buy anymore of them. They are a nice product but welcome to the 1990's guys.
I should have said "the major expense" but maybe you should read a few annual statements to see just where fuel fits in the grand scheme of airlines costs. Just keep in mind how the accountants spin the costs of the planes.
You get 2x the space but the seat takes up 10x the space but you only pay 5x the cost for 1st class? Most of 1st class seems to be taken up by airline staff flying for free from what I can tell.
Right now they are both tied at one flight but the airbus covered more distance.
Thats why someone is going of make a fortune building an airport somewhere on the north west edge of Mexico. I lost count of the Aussie and Kiwis I know who don't fly through the US any more because of the hassle.
Check out what people are paying for their area in the plane you you'll see that economy class is subsidizing even the very expensive 1st class seats.
On a modern jet, a passengers share of the fuel is less than $20 an hour (with cars being $6 to $12?). Contrary to the "fuel surcharges", the fuel still isn't a major cost of the flight.
This thing is over Hawaii I wonder if it will be viable in Australia. If so it would be nice to be able to get shows a bit early. Most new sats have a huge number of spot beams which makes it tricky to pick them up outside of their transmit pattern. Does anyone know where to find the details?
The 700 mil figure comes from the total amount paid out by the insurance companies. The 10 mil figure was also from insurance docs about expenses they didn't have to pay.
I googled for 'sydney to hobart 1998 million'. The $700m figure shows up on several of the hits.
A Statutory Gov't Body is just a step on the way to privatization.
Billionaires buy senators. Its in the senators best interest to keep them from drowning.
The reason there was a proper investigation of this problem is a result of the rich guys asking WTF? The Aussie gov't changed its policy on selling that data soon after as well.
so os x made it pretty.
Why do people keep deleting the printer when they want to delete all the jobs in the que?
What is wrong with CUPS is that its based on lp and lpr. lpr has been around for decades and was a hack to get printers to work over networks and allow smarter processing through filters so you could send you text formatting job off to the fast computer and have it send it to the slow machine that had the cool printer attached.
lp was a hack that come out in the early 80s that tried to do what lpr did but with the ability for admins to have better control and they got rid of some of the concepts like troff typesetters but ignored the new laser printer idea even thought they were starting to show up.
When you build on such fine foundations, it doesn't matter how fancy the new stuff is, its going to sink into the swamp of mediocrity.
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I've heard about your bill to limit access to weather data.
please research what this has done in Australia and look to how many people have been killed already because of this type of plan. A good place to research is the "sydney to hobart race 1998." That was a boat race but the organizers running the race relied on private weather information since the government had just started privatized the Bureau of Meteorology. The result was that 6 people died, several boats sank and the coast guard spent over 10 million dollars on rescue of the 115 boats. The total bill for "user pays weather" was $700 million dollars.
A second example of why this is wrong involves aviation weather and its resulting deaths. I don't want a small plane falling out of the sky because the pilot didn't get a good weather briefing. Australia also provides evidence that people will not properly check weather if it isn't free and therefor endangering other people.
This ship lives off the coast of Australia. It comes in to port about 2 weeks a year and all other supplies are taken out using other boats. Sure its only 55 people in total but the supply issue is only about 10 times worse for the bigger ship.
They have to be outside of the economic zone to the US not to be able to touch them. However the US is happy to board ships anywhere they choose to. Thats the point of having a strong navy. The coast guard will routinely check ships inside the 12 nmi defense zone.
And yes, I can swim more than 3 miles in the ocean.
Doubling the bit sizes tends to approach squaring of the the power. When you get into things like barrel multipliers, its a more like x^2+x.
The big problem is moving more sutff on and off the stack (on stack window) and your need larger caches that hold mostly zeros.
As far as DNA goes (which isn't a general purpose problem like I had mentioned), thats a problem of using the wrong hardware for the job. What you need is a 64k or so bit machine like cray was building before they went bust. Going from 32 to 64 is going to make pointers a tiny bit nicer but what you need is sub word pointers. I've always found that dealing with very large data sets that it works much better to keep the raw data in one place (even if its compressed) and the meta data in another.
My dealings with stock market data systems that track every trade show that the compaines that pack bits as tight as they can by hand end up at the end of the big days with all the data and all the rest are wondering what got lost.
There is one other problem with very big address space. When you start talking about billions of thing words or memory with a MTBF of modern silicon, once the project gets into needing gigs of ram or terabytes of storage, something is always broken and it tends to be broke in a way which will corrupt the data in undetectable ways.