Left mouse push fires it. Kinda crazy really. We actually asked for - when this was brought up - we asked for a great big red button but they wouldn't give us one.
- a submariner referring to missile launches, BBC, 20 July 2003
The earliest appearance in print appears to be by Andrew Tanenbaum in Computer Networks (1980): "The moral of the story is: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." but verbal variations most likely predate that. In any case it predates those new-fangled quarter-inch tapes.
Neat. Mail order? Mind me asking who you work for? I'll want to buy more pinball parts sometime... once I find a new job, that is. (15 years experience in compiler development - will generate code for food.)
I'm afraid you can't use QIC audio tapes with a stock data drive,
because the RIAA forced Sun to orient the magnetic domains 66% off-axis to prevent copying.
Dead QICmans are pretty much the only source for the audio codec chip,
and as I'm sure you already know, they sell for a small fortune on eBay.
There was a Usenet post a few years ago from someone
who modified a southern-hemisphere VCR (the heads spin the other way)
to read them; he made four mercury delay lines of different lengths out of thermometers tuned to recombine the signals from the four heads.
In my case, I only had 6 irreplaceable QICman tapes - concert bootlegs -
so I just coated them with Ampex Edivue to make the magnetic patterns visible,
cut them into 14" strips and arranged them on a flatbed scanner,
and wrote a Photoshop macro to decode the audio. Worked great!
Big enough corporate world to pay you to port SIMH's ethernet support to OS X?
Just think how much time you'll save running VMS with only one layer of simulation.
Stupid? One short simple question established that the candidate did not have the experience he claimed.
And no, someone who wants to be a system administrator
should not have to look up the most common arguments to ps.
(BTW, System V's/usr/ucb/ps sucks so badly
that I wrote a quick&dirty/proc-groveller here; never got around to implementing bits I rarely use, though.)
The corresponding question for someone who claims Solaris as well as Linux experience is,
"When would you use killall?"
and you do not want someone who gets that wrong touching your box....
Yup, 'cause you never know when someone might come along, pick that 10000 pound lump of metal out of a 70 foot deep hole, and run off with it under their arm. And the security guards that can stand up to people like that don't come cheap.
Lessee... the article says the plan uses a rod 30 inches in diameter and 6 feet long, so that's some 10000 pounds, sealed in a case that probably weighs at least as much again, and it's in a hole in the ground. You'd need a crane to get it out, and moving that crane into place might be slowed slightly by the rest of the power plant built on top. The test site is a town that appears to exist primarily to serve a US Air Force base. I'd be more worried about being hit by a meteorite.
Of course the article isn't very clear, but I don't really see either not-A or not-B claimed as such. It seems to me that the reflector is a ring moving down the rod, and at any time you have completely clean fuel at the head end of the ring and progressively more poisoned fuel toward the tail. If the reflector moves too fast, the fuel within will be proportionally less poisoned, and though the output may be greater, it still won't be more than when the reflector started out on 100% clean fuel. The reflector gets to the end sooner ("the reactor's lifetime is simply shortened") and the fuel ends up less poisoned than it would ideally have been.
If you are confronted by an anxious robot,
you and your two friends can ride the rocking horse
along the trail of utility poles
(watch out for sleeping bats)
back to your wide-screen television.
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I think you seriously underestimate peoples' capacity for self (?) -delusion.
Not even that...
- a submariner referring to missile launches, BBC, 20 July 2003The earliest appearance in print appears to be by Andrew Tanenbaum in Computer Networks (1980): "The moral of the story is: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." but verbal variations most likely predate that. In any case it predates those new-fangled quarter-inch tapes.
I booked my trip through NASA and ended up in a Soyuz capsule instead.
Oh well, at least I didn't get stuck on Northwest.
Ouch! There goes my karma!
Damn... and I thought it was funny to stick pennies up my nose.
Neat. Mail order? Mind me asking who you work for? I'll want to buy more pinball parts sometime... once I find a new job, that is.
(15 years experience in compiler development - will generate code for food.)
Mandala.
I'm afraid you can't use QIC audio tapes with a stock data drive, because the RIAA forced Sun to orient the magnetic domains 66% off-axis to prevent copying. Dead QICmans are pretty much the only source for the audio codec chip, and as I'm sure you already know, they sell for a small fortune on eBay.
There was a Usenet post a few years ago from someone who modified a southern-hemisphere VCR (the heads spin the other way) to read them; he made four mercury delay lines of different lengths out of thermometers tuned to recombine the signals from the four heads.
In my case, I only had 6 irreplaceable QICman tapes - concert bootlegs - so I just coated them with Ampex Edivue to make the magnetic patterns visible, cut them into 14" strips and arranged them on a flatbed scanner, and wrote a Photoshop macro to decode the audio. Worked great!
who's the father of "historic" computing then?
Charles Babbage.
Also, who's the second cousin on the mother's side?
Modern or historic? Never mind; I don't know what a second cousin is, anyway.
Big enough corporate world to pay you to port SIMH's ethernet support to OS X? Just think how much time you'll save running VMS with only one layer of simulation.
Stupid? One short simple question established that the candidate did not have the experience he claimed. And no, someone who wants to be a system administrator should not have to look up the most common arguments to ps.
(BTW, System V's /usr/ucb/ps sucks so badly
that I wrote a quick&dirty /proc-groveller here; never got around to implementing bits I rarely use, though.)
The corresponding question for someone who claims Solaris as well as Linux experience is, "When would you use killall?" and you do not want someone who gets that wrong touching your box....
Niven, Inconstant Moon. Thoroughly on topic.
Good, that'll help. Maybe the Slashdot editors could join it. By now I'm ready to welcome any overlord that can proofread.
Yup, 'cause you never know when someone might come along, pick that 10000 pound lump of metal out of a 70 foot deep hole, and run off with it under their arm. And the security guards that can stand up to people like that don't come cheap.
Lessee... the article says the plan uses a rod 30 inches in diameter and 6 feet long, so that's some 10000 pounds, sealed in a case that probably weighs at least as much again, and it's in a hole in the ground.
You'd need a crane to get it out, and moving that crane into place might be slowed slightly by the rest of the power plant built on top.
The test site is a town that appears to exist primarily to serve a US Air Force base.
I'd be more worried about being hit by a meteorite.
Of course the article isn't very clear, but I don't really see either not-A or not-B claimed as such.
It seems to me that the reflector is a ring moving down the rod, and at any time you have completely clean fuel at the head end of the ring and progressively more poisoned fuel toward the tail.
If the reflector moves too fast, the fuel within will be proportionally less poisoned, and though the output may be greater, it still won't be more than when the reflector started out on 100% clean fuel.
The reflector gets to the end sooner ("the reactor's lifetime is simply shortened") and the fuel ends up less poisoned than it would ideally have been.
I don't have a Pentium, so I'll take the $20K 10kW version, please.
Master Control Program = Operating System, on Burroughs and Honeywell and no doubt other contemporary systems.
You're right. Somehow I had the idea that it could be operated while held in one hand; perhaps I'm mixing up memories of different products.
The Microwriter Agenda (1989) did this.
The mouse was originally used together with a one-handed chording keyboard.
It wouldn't work for long; look what happened to the Shakers.