Sometimes you can see these machines in 1960s spy or science fiction movies. Look for scenes where "the answer" to a question is delivered on a Hollerith card.
Holy 1960's, Batman! Who needs spy or sci-fi movies when the BAT-COMPUTER(tm) did that?
The real reason rockets stage is to swap out engine nozels. The bells that work at sealevel are ill-suited to vacuum operation. By launching above most of the atmosphere you can just use a single stage.
I thought that getting rid of the (now useless) mass from the heavy boosters also had something to do with it?
\i{The obscure: the concept of vacuum energy was actually propounded in a Physical Review Letters article by Robert L. Forward before Asimov borrowed it to power his spaceships (the starship "Forward") - I forget the book, but it might have been Friday.}
He invented communications satellites MUCH earlier than fountains of paradise. He invented them in either "Islands in the sky", or in his non-SF "The Exploration of Space", I can't remember which.
He popularized the Space Elevator in "Fountains of Paradise", but it was invented by Yuri Artusonov (sp?).
And you bootstrapped the compiler by hand... Otherwise, how do you know that the compiler that you used to compile your compiler didn't have an exploit?
Holy crap, I get confused reading that last sentence, but it's semantically correct!
Funny, though, I seem to recall Lucas saying that he'd really like to do a new special edition of SWIV, where he gets rid of the danish pastry hairdo on Leia and the '70s Sean Cassidy look on Luke. Guess he changed his mind.
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Yep. He doesn't want to be sued for patent infringement :-)
Sometimes you can see these machines in 1960s spy or science fiction movies. Look for scenes where "the answer" to a question is delivered on a Hollerith card.
Holy 1960's, Batman! Who needs spy or sci-fi movies when the BAT-COMPUTER(tm) did that?
a full-sized computor carries 4,000 to 5,000 valves
/.'er get their work done on a machine with only 5000 transistors!
My how times change...
I'd like to see any
The real reason rockets stage is to swap out engine nozels. The bells that work at sealevel are ill-suited to vacuum operation. By launching above most of the atmosphere you can just use a single stage.
I thought that getting rid of the (now useless) mass from the heavy boosters also had something to do with it?
You're right... I knew that... I was so busy correcting the book, I forgot to correct the author!
Is it just me, or does it seem like we're down to only the "Big 3" (nVidia, ATI, and Matrox -- and I could be wrong about Matrox).
You used to have all sorts of chipset makers... S3, Matrox, ATI, WesternDigital, Tseng Labs (whatever happened to them, anyway?), 3dFX...
What happened? Is this consoldiation a good thing or a bad thing?
I think I asked this once before, and don't remember if I got an answer...
Since most monitors max out a VSYNC of 120Hz, what good are frame rates higher than that?
There's a short in "Expanded Universe" that predicts a terrorist (or rogue nation) using a suitcase nuke to blow up New York.
No, the space elevator was invented by Yuri Artsutanov. Clarke explicitly gives him credit in the afterword to "Fountains of Paradise".
\i{The obscure: the concept of vacuum energy was actually propounded in a Physical Review Letters article by Robert L. Forward before Asimov borrowed it to power his spaceships (the starship "Forward") - I forget the book, but it might have been Friday.}
The book was the "Songs of Distant Earth".
He invented communications satellites MUCH earlier than fountains of paradise. He invented them in either "Islands in the sky", or in his non-SF "The Exploration of Space", I can't remember which.
He popularized the Space Elevator in "Fountains of Paradise", but it was invented by Yuri Artusonov (sp?).
All your 5kR1p7 are belong to us!
All your keystroke are belong to us!
All your exploit are belong to us!
Move all keystroke, for great injustice!
And you bootstrapped the compiler by hand... Otherwise, how do you know that the compiler that you used to compile your compiler didn't have an exploit?
Holy crap, I get confused reading that last sentence, but it's semantically correct!
Wrong movie. That was "The Lost Continent", though the driving scenes are reminiscent...
WHAT?????? That would be like cutting a climbing scene from "The Lost Continent"!!!!!
I always call the "loopy Japanese actress" the "Tee-hee girl".
Today's theme ingredient... PLOMIK SOUP!
I thought the exact same thing!
Funny, though, I seem to recall Lucas saying that he'd really like to do a new special edition of SWIV, where he gets rid of the danish pastry hairdo on Leia and the '70s Sean Cassidy look on Luke. Guess he changed his mind.
Well, that explains it! The workers don't read French, and thought it said "Kick Me"!
Is the "dark address space" made up of strange websites? Or perhaps charmed ones?
By definition, any classified machine CAN NOT be connected to the Internet. Try it, and you could be looking at a lifetime vacation in Leavenworth.
When I worked for a defense contractor, we were exceptionally paranoid about this sort of thing.
Oh MY GOD, my brain is a circumvention device
Dear Mr. GISboy,
It has come to our attention that your brain is an illegal circumvention device under the DMCA. Please remove it immediately.
In addition, we will be asking the FBI, CIA, NSA, WTO, and any other three-letter-organization that we can think of to come and arrest you.
Thank you,
The RIAA (Working hard for ourselves^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HArtists!}
You're thinking Parallel SCSI (SPI SPI-2...).
There's a standard for SCSI over firewire: SCSI-SBP-2. Also Fibre Channel (SCSI-FCP) is hot-pluggable, no termination, no IDs to set, etc...
bananjr6000? Oliver Wendell Jones would be so proud!
No, no, no! It should be:
DNS? We don't need no steenkin' DNS!