"the Digital ID World conference, which is intended to discuss and examine the future of 'digital identity' - how you'll be identified, tracked, and monitored online."
Why don't they just monitor everyone at the ID Conference? They seem to be the only people that want it.
The scope of "entirely from scratch"
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Your particular definition of scratch involves compiling the C source code. Some might say scratch could also be: - Writing it in assembly - Writing it in x86 machine language - Flipping the bits on the hard drive - Re-inventing the C source code
All of the methods require additional tools: - A tool to take the Hard Disk and provide a file structure, write a boot sector and loader - A tool with some commands to copy the compiler there - A tool to take the C source code and generate the machine language binary code
You might find it similar to how mammals develop. As far as I know, most mammals require parents to feed, care, and raise their young. I can't think of any fertilized egg, fetus, or newborn that can survive without the parent to hand down their knowledge (I even heard that the reason we are able to live past 30 is to provide knowledge as grandparents or family/clan elders).
I have thought of one way to completely write the OS with only one machine. A long time ago, the old IBM PCs (and Apple computers) had a key sequence which would break into debug mode. After this mode starts, you would be able to type in the machine code to get a rudimentary system going. Another way would be to get an old ethernet card with a rom chip and burn a startup rom. Then you type in the boot loader. For example: a bootable ``Hello World!'' program, consisting of just over 100 lines of assembler code.
While 100 lines of code is easy to hand type, imagine typing in the 10,000-100,000 characters for an extremely simple operating system. Then imagine hand typing in the machine code for a C compiler (yikes!), unless you want to hand type in the millions to 100's of millions of bytes of machine code to write a Linux system. There would be another way speed it up if you take apart a keyboard, wire it to a device capable of playing back keystrokes. I started to work on this but have postponed it until better times. I did start out by building Linux from Scratch and it took me 30-40 hours of very patient, slow progress. The complexity of even a minimal Linux is boggling when you jump in, compile, link, and see how much text scrolls by your screen when compiling it.
The advantage to Linux from Scratch is you have the greatest control over the OS. Without your direct control over every detail it won't run, as it depends on your Linux knowledge or following the tutorial to install.
If you want an extremely minimalist Linux distro, there's a list at:http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html Select Category-minimalist, Platform-Intel compatible and click go. Search for gateway on the page.
I've tried the following ones because they have the basic OS requirements for a user, they load from a floppy, and move resources to RAM: Alphalinux muLinux
Unlike the ugly, nasty, Western types, most Eastern Dragons are beautiful, friendly, and wise. They are the angels of the Orient. Instead of being hated, they are loved and worshipped. Temples and shrines have been built to honor them, for they control the rain, rivers, lakes, and seas. Many Chinese cities have pagodas where people used to burn incense and pray to dragons. The Black Dragon Pool Chapel, near Peking, was reserved for the Empress and her court Special worship services took place there on the first and fifteenth of every month. Dragon shrines and altars can still be seen in many parts of the Far East. They are usually along seashores and riverbanks, because most Eastern Dragons live in water. The Isle of the Temple, in Japan's Inland Sea, has become a famous stopover for pilgrims who meditate and pray to dragons. Both male and female dragons have mated with humans. Their descendants became great rulers. The Japanese Emperor Hirohito traced his ancestry back 125 generations to Princess Fruitful Jewel, daughter of a Dragon King of the Sea. Emperors in many Asian countries claimed to have dragon ancestors. This made them so proud, that everything they used was decorated with dragons and described in terms of the dragon: dragon-throne, dragon-robe, dragon-bed, dragon-boat. Calling an emperor "dragon-face" was a supreme compliment. People believed that rulers could change themselves into dragons. For hundreds of years, Japanese emperors sat concealed behind bamboo curtains whenever visitors came. Anyone who dared to peek was condemned to death.
Everything connected with Eastern Dragons is blessed. The Year of the Dragon which takes place ever twelve years, is lucky. Present-day Oriental astrologersclaim that children born dunng Dragon Years enjoy health, wealth, and long life. (1964 and 1976 were Dragon Years.) Dragons are so wise that they have been royal advisors. A thirteenth-century Cambodian king spent his nights in a golden tower, where he consulted with the real ruler of the land a nine-headed dragon. Eastern Dragons are vain, even though they are wise. They are insulted when a ruler doesn't follow their advice, or when people don't honor their importance. Then, by thrashing about, dragons either stop making rain and cause water shortages, or they breathe black clouds that bring storms and floods. Small dragons do minor mischief, such as making roofs leak, or causing rice to be sticky. People set off firecrackers and carry immense paper dragons in special parades. They also race dragon-shaped boats in water all to please and appease their dragons.
In the late 1800s the flag of China had a dragon in it.
Artists and inventors should get reasonable compensation for their work, but to slap some notes or concepts together and claim that your work is so unique that it deserves infinite copy protection is absurd.
How long would a religion or martial arts form last if you were forced to pay someone every time you read it aloud or demonstrated it? What if you were sued because what you said or did sounded too similar to what someone else had done? Every thing we create will always be inspired or built from the ideas and experiences of our life, and to sue others for permission to similar experiences in their lives is wrong.
There's also the issue of artists and corporations squandering the massive wealth obtained from royalties while protesting the bad effects of a society that had enabled their decadent lifestyle.
At least the RIAA has been kind enough to associate some faces with their tactics, i'll know for sure which artists place greed before need.
We'll always be free to say anything we want. There will also be plenty of free time to do so after getting expelled, fired, blacklisted, and sued into poverty.
In the early 1990s Diamond Multimedia threatened to sue anyone to whom they released the programming specs who would subsequently release the information to others. Obviously you cannot have a source-code release of Linux and Xfree that would not violate this. Although there were workarounds, many did not want any official accommodation of Diamond's policy to become part of of Linux.
In 1999, S3 acquired Diamond Multimedia and moved into Internet appliances, broadband communications, home networking and audio solutions. In late 2000, the Company changed its name to SONICblue, transferred its chip assets to a joint venture with VIA, closed its graphics board business and re-positioned itself to be a leader in the emerging growth market of digital media appliances and services.
A little boy from Minnesota, aided by his father, who is a patent lawyer, has patented swinging. In the description of his invention, he clarifies that while "The standard method of swinging on a swing is defined by oscillatory motion of the swing and the user along an axis," his method involves pulling the chains, alternating between the two, in order to swing back and forth, i.e., parallel to the axis.
Read "Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook" by Maurice Kanbar. One of the chapters covers the issue of filing it yourself or hiring an attorney.
There's advantages to both. If you want to focus just on the invention then you'll probably hire an attorney. However an attorney can help in many ways. They can spot potential loopholes that could save money years from now. For example, if you file a patent your invention as made of plastic, it's possible for someone to copy it and re-patent it under a different material. It's better to say that's it's made from a flexible material. Another example is I know of is a person who patented a very useful material. He licensed it out to a large corporation and that corporation has stopped paying him in an effort to bankrupt him and steal his idea.
I too have some ideas i'd like to pursue but the cost of having a plastic injection mold carved out of steel is very expensive ($50,000+). The attorney fees are tiny compared to the cost of manufacturing.
"Monkey is a real DA that has been around practically forever. The very first low-memory global (0x100) is called MonkeyLives; it is a flag to let apps know that Monkey is running so they can refuse to do destructive things like replacing the Finder with a MacPaint document (which is the sort of thing Monkey tries to do surprisingly often)."
"I can personally attest that in a user-interface-intensive program Monkey finds bugs like nothing else I know, precisely because of its randomness. As IM says, it just spits random keys and mouse clicks into the app and waits for it to crash, so it gets into situations that no sane human, tester or otherwise, would ever try--it just wouldn't occur to them."
"By the early 1980's, the Computer Science community at Carnegie Mellon was making heavy use of online bulletin boards or "bboards". These were a precursor of today's newsgroups, and they were an important social mechanism in the department - a place where faculty, staff, and students could discuss the weighty matters of the day on an equal footing. Many of the posts were serious: talk announcements, requests for information, and things like "I've just found a ring in the fifth-floor men's room. Who does it belong to?" Other posts discussed topics of general interest, ranging from politics to abortion to campus parking to keyboard layout (in increasing order of passion). Even in those days, extended "flame wars" were common."
"Given the nature of the community, a good many of the posts were humorous (or attempted humor). The problem was that if someone made a sarcastic remark, a few readers would fail to get the joke, and each of them would post a lengthy diatribe in response. That would stir up more people with more responses, and soon the original thread of the discussion was buried. In at least one case, a humorous remark was interpreted by someone as a serious safety warning."
"This problem caused some of us to suggest (only half seriously) that maybe it would be a good idea to explicitly mark posts that were not to be taken seriously. After all, when using text-based online communication, we lack the body language or tone-of-voice cues that convey this information when we talk in person or on the phone. Various "joke markers" were suggested, and in the midst of that discussion it occurred to me that the character sequence:-) would be an elegant solution - one that could be handled by the ASCII-based computer terminals of the day. So I suggested that. In the same post, I also suggested the use of:-( to indicate that a message was meant to be taken seriously, though that symbol quickly evolved into a marker for displeasure, frustration, or anger." -Scott E. Fahlman - the inventor of the smiley
You could guarantee what they punch in if you had a camera save a picture of the items selected. It would be hard to convince people that the camera's not aimed at them though.
Another way might be to have it printed on a roll of paper for internal use only. The voter could see it through a window and verify if they voted correctly. Cash registers sometimes print on two rolls: one for the customer and one for the company to verify.
Back in the early 90's they used to do the same thing with vido game systems.
I got the Japanese Sega Genesis when it hadn't came out in the US. After it was available in the US I tried using US cartridges and found out that the Japanese ones had a notch in the plastic. The notch was for a lever in the Genesis that was connected to the power switch. When you tried to insert a US cartridge the lever wouldn't allow the power switch to turn on. After I figured this out, that lever went in the trash so fast.
I tried to get some Japanese NES cartrides once. I went to an electronics store and recognized them in some sort of vending machine, except there was only one of each game and they were locked in with a metal bar. It turned out that the Japanese NES uses floppy disks, and you would bring a blank disk to this machine, choose your game, and copy it to the floppy. At least I could plug my NES into the wall sockets in Japan cause I would have gone nuts.
I have a 2.4 ghz P4 with 533 mhz rambus and 512 mb 1066 DDR ram. My older machine is a P3 650 mhz with 512 mb SDRAM.
The P4 is at least 2-3 times faster when I load windows and applications.
There are a few things to consider in addition to the processor speed.
First, the speed of the memory bus is important. That determines how fast it can move around pages of memory. If Rambus hadn't tried to screw everyone then Intel wouldn't have had to scale back the memory bus speed in the P4s by bringing back SDRAM. As a result, using a motherboard with SDRAM slows down the P4.
Second, the amount of memory hasn't improved much. The P4 boards have the same number of RAM slots as the P3 boards did. If you have a lot of programs open or a huge 600 mb file, then 512 mb on a P4 will feel like a Pentium Pro when it starts having to use the hard drive for swap space.
Third, check your hard drive bus speed. Is it a 66 or 100? Mine is older than that and i'm sure I takes a performance hit.
"eventually has to buy the software" "Because these services are considered a gift, the city won't have to publicly bid the project"
Receiving an item to be repayed at a later date is a loan, not a gift. They are bypassing the public bid system. Either they are taking a loss to establish a monopoly or it illustrates how much they gouge everyone else with huge margins.
Almost all economic mistakes in history were caused by one of two things:
- ignoring the big picture and focusing (selling) only on short or long term
- ignoring all the groups of people and focusing (selling) only on one group
They're probably just checking for alpha, beta, delta, and theta waves. Alpha - (8 to 13 Hz) Indicative of Relaxed, Awake State Beta - (14 to 30 Hz) Fast, Unsynchronized Activity Delta - (0.1 to 3Hz) Indicates Deep Sleep Highly Synchronized Brain Activity Theta - (4 to 7 Hz) Slower Activity, Found in Sleep
They might combine them with heartbeat, breathing, eye, and electrical signals and feed it into an expert system or neural net to identify people that are unusually nervous.
In the future they'll hide incriminating images and voices all around you and check your EEG's for "P300 waves." If your brain recognizes too many of them, it'll increase the chances of you being a suspect. John Norseen, a scientist with Lockheed Martin, is often able to discern when subjects are thinking of particular numbers. He predicts that by 2005, brain mappers will be able to automatically scan the skulls of everyone going through airports to search for potential hijackers. The Lie Detector That Scans Your Brain
They'll also have probability assessments of people instead of a definite guilty or innocent. Those with a higher probability of guilt will get more agency attention.
The International Space Station represents a global partnership of 16 nations. The goal of the Operations phase of the ISS program is to perform world-class research that benefits the citizens and develops the economies of the member countries. The research includes living in space.
ISS Experiments Less than 1 percent of the federal budget goes to NASA
This is part of the big debate about UNIX/Linux empowering the programmers and confusing the others.
The following is a simplified answer:
From what I can tell most users desire only to fit within the computer community and learn one way of getting things done. Debates on subjects that they have no time or patience for will only confuse and anger them. They need to be led. Apple and Microsoft have done well at fulfilling this need. Apple does it in style on premium hardware configurations, and Microsoft approaches that level using cheaper hardware for the masses. Both organizations even have a specific leader with their own vision.
UNIX and Linux are different. They're for individuals who have the time and patience to examine all the ways of getting something done on a computer and decide for themselves. They prefer to pave the way towards their own goals and visions. This also explains why they tend to question and debate methods and sometimes rebuild things from scratch.
While there are exceptions within each case, it can also be stated that one can only focus on specific things in life and not every thing. Who could deny that the scarcity of time is the major cause for ignorance.
"Should the convention for tapping threads in metal be switched to left hand threads by default?"
Since almost everyone is right handed, I would think that hand would be stronger for turning a tool to tighten the fastener, and most fasteners are intended to stay tightened.
Slashdot Mirror
Reminds me of the projects people bring to the Homebrew Robotics Club
http://www.hbrobotics.org/
"the Digital ID World conference, which is intended to discuss and examine the future of 'digital identity' - how you'll be identified, tracked, and monitored online."
Why don't they just monitor everyone at the ID Conference? They seem to be the only people that want it.
Your particular definition of scratch involves compiling the C source code.
:http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html
Some might say scratch could also be:
- Writing it in assembly
- Writing it in x86 machine language
- Flipping the bits on the hard drive
- Re-inventing the C source code
All of the methods require additional tools:
- A tool to take the Hard Disk and provide a file structure, write a boot sector and loader
- A tool with some commands to copy the compiler there
- A tool to take the C source code and generate the machine language binary code
You might find it similar to how mammals develop. As far as I know, most mammals require parents to feed, care, and raise their young. I can't think of any fertilized egg, fetus, or newborn that can survive without the parent to hand down their knowledge (I even heard that the reason we are able to live past 30 is to provide knowledge as grandparents or family/clan elders).
I have thought of one way to completely write the OS with only one machine. A long time ago, the old IBM PCs (and Apple computers) had a key sequence which would break into debug mode. After this mode starts, you would be able to type in the machine code to get a rudimentary system going. Another way would be to get an old ethernet card with a rom chip and burn a startup rom. Then you type in the boot loader.
For example: a bootable ``Hello World!'' program, consisting of just over 100 lines of assembler code.
While 100 lines of code is easy to hand type, imagine typing in the 10,000-100,000 characters for an extremely simple operating system. Then imagine hand typing in the machine code for a C compiler (yikes!), unless you want to hand type in the millions to 100's of millions of bytes of machine code to write a Linux system. There would be another way speed it up if you take apart a keyboard, wire it to a device capable of playing back keystrokes. I started to work on this but have postponed it until better times. I did start out by building Linux from Scratch and it took me 30-40 hours of very patient, slow progress. The complexity of even a minimal Linux is boggling when you jump in, compile, link, and see how much text scrolls by your screen when compiling it.
The advantage to Linux from Scratch is you have the greatest control over the OS. Without your direct control over every detail it won't run, as it depends on your Linux knowledge or following the tutorial to install.
Other links:
From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO
How to Write an Operating System
If you want an extremely minimalist Linux distro, there's a list at
Select Category-minimalist, Platform-Intel compatible and click go.
Search for gateway on the page.
I've tried the following ones because they have the basic OS requirements for a user, they load from a floppy, and move resources to RAM:
Alphalinux
muLinux
Take a look at this website.
L -Man-Pages/index.html
It has plenty of tutorials and downloads on OpenGL.
There's also a large message forum.
http://nehe.gamedev.net/
This one is a reference to the OpenGL Commands
http://www.eecs.tulane.edu/www/graphics/doc/OpenG
l33t months $ux
Unlike the ugly, nasty, Western types, most Eastern Dragons are beautiful, friendly, and wise. They are the angels of the Orient. Instead of being hated, they are loved and worshipped. Temples and shrines have been built to honor them, for they control the rain, rivers, lakes, and seas. Many Chinese cities have pagodas where people used to burn incense and pray to dragons. The Black Dragon Pool Chapel, near Peking, was reserved for the Empress and her court
Special worship services took place there on the first and fifteenth of every month. Dragon shrines and altars can still be seen in many parts of the Far East. They are usually along seashores and riverbanks, because most Eastern Dragons live in water. The Isle of the Temple, in Japan's Inland Sea, has become a famous stopover for pilgrims who meditate and pray to dragons. Both male and female dragons have mated with humans. Their descendants became great rulers. The Japanese Emperor Hirohito traced his ancestry back 125 generations to Princess Fruitful Jewel, daughter of a Dragon King of the Sea. Emperors in many Asian countries claimed to have dragon ancestors. This made them so proud, that everything they used was decorated with dragons and described in terms of the dragon: dragon-throne, dragon-robe, dragon-bed, dragon-boat. Calling an emperor "dragon-face" was a supreme compliment. People believed that rulers could change themselves into dragons. For hundreds of years, Japanese emperors sat concealed behind bamboo curtains whenever visitors came. Anyone who dared to peek was condemned to death.
Everything connected with Eastern Dragons is blessed. The Year of the Dragon which takes place ever twelve years, is lucky. Present-day Oriental astrologersclaim that children born dunng Dragon Years enjoy health, wealth, and long life. (1964 and 1976 were Dragon Years.)
Dragons are so wise that they have been royal advisors. A thirteenth-century Cambodian king spent his nights in a golden tower, where he consulted with the real ruler of the land a nine-headed dragon. Eastern Dragons are vain, even though they are wise. They are insulted when a ruler doesn't follow their advice, or when people don't honor their importance. Then, by thrashing about, dragons either stop making rain and cause water shortages, or they breathe black clouds that bring storms and floods. Small dragons do minor mischief, such as making roofs leak, or causing rice to be sticky. People set off firecrackers and carry immense paper dragons in special parades. They also race dragon-shaped boats in water all to please and appease their dragons.
In the late 1800s the flag of China had a dragon in it.
Statues of Dragons
Artists and inventors should get reasonable compensation for their work, but to slap some notes or concepts together and claim that your work is so unique that it deserves infinite copy protection is absurd.
How long would a religion or martial arts form last if you were forced to pay someone every time you read it aloud or demonstrated it? What if you were sued because what you said or did sounded too similar to what someone else had done? Every thing we create will always be inspired or built from the ideas and experiences of our life, and to sue others for permission to similar experiences in their lives is wrong.
There's also the issue of artists and corporations squandering the massive wealth obtained from royalties while protesting the bad effects of a society that had enabled their decadent lifestyle.
At least the RIAA has been kind enough to associate some faces with their tactics, i'll know for sure which artists place greed before need.
We'll always be free to say anything we want.
There will also be plenty of free time to do so after getting expelled, fired, blacklisted, and sued into poverty.
In the early 1990s Diamond Multimedia threatened to sue anyone to whom they released the programming specs who would subsequently release the information to others. Obviously you cannot have a source-code release of Linux and Xfree that would not violate this. Although there were workarounds, many did not want any official accommodation of Diamond's policy to become part of of Linux.
In 1999, S3 acquired Diamond Multimedia and moved into Internet appliances, broadband communications, home networking and audio solutions. In late 2000, the Company changed its name to SONICblue, transferred its chip assets to a joint venture with VIA, closed its graphics board business and re-positioned itself to be a leader in the emerging growth market of digital media appliances and services.
Threatening customers is bad mojo.
"perfect timing for suporting his campaign."
Does this mean that politicians serve the people best when they're trying hard to get re-elected?
A little boy from Minnesota, aided by his father, who is a patent lawyer, has patented swinging. In the description of his invention, he clarifies that while "The standard method of swinging on a swing is defined by oscillatory motion of the swing and the user along an axis," his method involves pulling the chains, alternating between the two, in order to swing back and forth, i.e., parallel to the axis.
Read "Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook"
by Maurice Kanbar. One of the chapters covers the issue of filing it yourself or hiring an attorney.
There's advantages to both.
If you want to focus just on the invention then you'll probably hire an attorney.
However an attorney can help in many ways. They can spot potential loopholes that could save money years from now.
For example, if you file a patent your invention as made of plastic, it's possible for someone to copy it and re-patent it under a different material. It's better to say that's it's made from a flexible material.
Another example is I know of is a person who patented a very useful material. He licensed it out to a large corporation and that corporation has stopped paying him in an effort to bankrupt him and steal his idea.
I too have some ideas i'd like to pursue but the cost of having a plastic injection mold carved out of steel is very expensive ($50,000+). The attorney fees are tiny compared to the cost of manufacturing.
"Monkey is a real DA that has been around practically forever. The very
first low-memory global (0x100) is called MonkeyLives; it is a flag to let
apps know that Monkey is running so they can refuse to do destructive
things like replacing the Finder with a MacPaint document (which is the
sort of thing Monkey tries to do surprisingly often)."
"I can personally attest that in a user-interface-intensive program
Monkey finds bugs like nothing else I know, precisely because of its
randomness. As IM says, it just spits random keys and mouse clicks into
the app and waits for it to crash, so it gets into situations that no sane
human, tester or otherwise, would ever try--it just wouldn't occur to them."
I agree.
"By the early 1980's, the Computer Science community at Carnegie Mellon was making heavy use of online bulletin boards or "bboards". These were a precursor of today's newsgroups, and they were an important social mechanism in the department - a place where faculty, staff, and students could discuss the weighty matters of the day on an equal footing. Many of the posts were serious: talk announcements, requests for information, and things like "I've just found a ring in the fifth-floor men's room. Who does it belong to?" Other posts discussed topics of general interest, ranging from politics to abortion to campus parking to keyboard layout (in increasing order of passion). Even in those days, extended "flame wars" were common."
:-) would be an elegant solution - one that could be handled by the ASCII-based computer terminals of the day. So I suggested that. In the same post, I also suggested the use of :-( to indicate that a message was meant to be taken seriously, though that symbol quickly evolved into a marker for displeasure, frustration, or anger." -Scott E. Fahlman - the inventor of the smiley
"Given the nature of the community, a good many of the posts were humorous (or attempted humor). The problem was that if someone made a sarcastic remark, a few readers would fail to get the joke, and each of them would post a lengthy diatribe in response. That would stir up more people with more responses, and soon the original thread of the discussion was buried. In at least one case, a humorous remark was interpreted by someone as a serious safety warning."
"This problem caused some of us to suggest (only half seriously) that maybe it would be a good idea to explicitly mark posts that were not to be taken seriously. After all, when using text-based online communication, we lack the body language or tone-of-voice cues that convey this information when we talk in person or on the phone. Various "joke markers" were suggested, and in the midst of that discussion it occurred to me that the character sequence
Smiley Lore
You could guarantee what they punch in if you had a camera save a picture of the items selected. It would be hard to convince people that the camera's not aimed at them though.
Another way might be to have it printed on a roll of paper for internal use only. The voter could see it through a window and verify if they voted correctly. Cash registers sometimes print on two rolls: one for the customer and one for the company to verify.
"loses a patent infringement case when it turns out patented canola is growing in his fields"
They don't call it rapeseed for nothin.
It doesn't mean being nickel and dimed for everything, and it doesn't mean it's free now and you pay later.
Redhat 7.2 has 1,144 packages. If they were to charge $0.75 for each package, you would be charged $858.00 to use Redhat.
Back in the early 90's they used to do the same thing with vido game systems.
I got the Japanese Sega Genesis when it hadn't came out in the US. After it was available in the US I tried using US cartridges and found out that the Japanese ones had a notch in the plastic. The notch was for a lever in the Genesis that was connected to the power switch. When you tried to insert a US cartridge the lever wouldn't allow the power switch to turn on. After I figured this out, that lever went in the trash so fast.
I tried to get some Japanese NES cartrides once. I went to an electronics store and recognized them in some sort of vending machine, except there was only one of each game and they were locked in with a metal bar. It turned out that the Japanese NES uses floppy disks, and you would bring a blank disk to this machine, choose your game, and copy it to the floppy. At least I could plug my NES into the wall sockets in Japan cause I would have gone nuts.
Of course nowadays we can just emulate on a pc.
I have a 2.4 ghz P4 with 533 mhz rambus and 512 mb 1066 DDR ram.
My older machine is a P3 650 mhz with 512 mb SDRAM.
The P4 is at least 2-3 times faster when I load windows and applications.
There are a few things to consider in addition to the processor speed.
First, the speed of the memory bus is important. That determines how fast it can move around pages of memory. If Rambus hadn't tried to screw everyone then Intel wouldn't have had to scale back the memory bus speed in the P4s by bringing back SDRAM. As a result, using a motherboard with SDRAM slows down the P4.
Second, the amount of memory hasn't improved much. The P4 boards have the same number of RAM slots as the P3 boards did. If you have a lot of programs open or a huge 600 mb file, then 512 mb on a P4 will feel like a Pentium Pro when it starts having to use the hard drive for swap space.
Third, check your hard drive bus speed. Is it a 66 or 100? Mine is older than that and i'm sure I takes a performance hit.
"eventually has to buy the software"
"Because these services are considered a gift, the city won't have to publicly bid the project"
Receiving an item to be repayed at a later date is a loan, not a gift. They are bypassing the public bid system. Either they are taking a loss to establish a monopoly or it illustrates how much they gouge everyone else with huge margins.
Almost all economic mistakes in history were caused by one of two things:
- ignoring the big picture and focusing (selling) only on short or long term
- ignoring all the groups of people and focusing (selling) only on one group
There is no free lunch.
They're probably just checking for alpha, beta, delta, and theta waves.
Alpha - (8 to 13 Hz) Indicative of Relaxed, Awake State
Beta - (14 to 30 Hz) Fast, Unsynchronized Activity
Delta - (0.1 to 3Hz) Indicates Deep Sleep Highly Synchronized Brain Activity
Theta - (4 to 7 Hz) Slower Activity, Found in Sleep
They might combine them with heartbeat, breathing, eye, and electrical signals and feed it into an expert system or neural net to identify people that are unusually nervous.
In the future they'll hide incriminating images and voices all around you and check your EEG's for "P300 waves." If your brain recognizes too many of them, it'll increase the chances of you being a suspect. John Norseen, a scientist with Lockheed Martin, is often able to discern when subjects are thinking of particular numbers. He predicts that by 2005, brain mappers will be able to automatically scan the skulls of everyone going through airports to search for potential hijackers.
The Lie Detector That Scans Your Brain
They'll also have probability assessments of people instead of a definite guilty or innocent. Those with a higher probability of guilt will get more agency attention.
Eventually they'll know what you're thinking. They can already wire a computer to a cat's brain and create videos of what the animal was seeing.
All that's left is to reverse the process and plant ideas into your head.
The International Space Station represents a global partnership of 16 nations. The goal of the Operations phase of the ISS program is to perform world-class research that benefits the citizens and develops the economies of the member countries. The research includes living in space.
ISS Experiments
Less than 1 percent of the federal budget goes to NASA
IMAX ISS Site
This is part of the big debate about UNIX/Linux empowering the programmers and confusing the others.
The following is a simplified answer:
From what I can tell most users desire only to fit within the computer community and learn one way of getting things done. Debates on subjects that they have no time or patience for will only confuse and anger them. They need to be led. Apple and Microsoft have done well at fulfilling this need. Apple does it in style on premium hardware configurations, and Microsoft approaches that level using cheaper hardware for the masses. Both organizations even have a specific leader with their own vision.
UNIX and Linux are different. They're for individuals who have the time and patience to examine all the ways of getting something done on a computer and decide for themselves. They prefer to pave the way towards their own goals and visions. This also explains why they tend to question and debate methods and sometimes rebuild things from scratch.
While there are exceptions within each case, it can also be stated that one can only focus on specific things in life and not every thing. Who could deny that the scarcity of time is the major cause for ignorance.
"Should the convention for tapping threads in metal be switched to left hand threads by default?"
Since almost everyone is right handed, I would think that hand would be stronger for turning a tool to tighten the fastener, and most fasteners are intended to stay tightened.
One of my favorites is: How was the first lathe with a lead screw built?
While many people may criticize or dismiss a topic as pointless, many others are working on it to get the job done.
Software should become freeware or open source after the patent expires.
I wonder what life would be like if intellectual property was free from the start.