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The one reason that I thought that OSX was too little when it was released was that it had no native support for X applications. With built in X11 support, this should make OSX a full-fledged *nix-compatible OS.
This could very well pull some of the crowd who love UNIX workstations, especially with the specs on that new chip.
Well, the article states that an IT group backed by 1100 companies, including IBM, put forth this motion. I strongly suspect IBM hasn't even heard of this.
I would even go as far as to suspect that IBM's Linux services division would be upset at this.
From IBM's own mouth, they make over 80% of their revenues on custom integrations and support, which means that GPL software is a good choice from their perspective. Proprietary software wouldn't make them much more money.
Just pass parameters by reference. You can then modify the parameter from inside the function. It's been a long while since I wrote in that language though.
Yes, I'm quite serious. I also went on to design and built a couple neural nets when I was 14-15. The second one, which had an actual learning algorithm, spanned 2 of the really massive breadboards. I'm surprised I managed to wire it correctly.
... I had just designed my first computer from the gate-level. I never got to build it, and it would have cost 10's of thousands of dollars just from the sheer component count (no DRAM for me, lol). I'm not even 100% sure that it would have worked.
But I designed every part of it. My parents were artists and couldn't follow me. My only reference was "Getting started in electronics", which taught me how to use logic gates.
Actually, it _IS_ pretty sad, when you think about it. Phenolic resin (bakelite) is easy enough for one person to make. Solder is relatively simple to make from refined lead/tin. Even from ore it's not especially difficult. Electricity is the easiest of all. Just put up a windmill, or build a heliostat.
Honestly, you don't have any of the ones that the lesbian/.ers would go for there. No Angelina Jolie (done up like in Hackers... *purrr*), no Alysson Hannigan (Willow, like, ya), no Lexa Doig (Andromeda's sexy AI). What's up with that?
I thought the PDP-11 was about (or more than) 20 years old? I can't really see Linux going away, when things like Unix and X have been around for nearly this long already.
Actually, the microwave oven uses the same frequency (because they have one, fixed-frequency magnatron), but duty-cycle to cut the overall power down (have you ever wondered why the microwave sounds different at different times? that's why).
Actually, depending on the frequency, this is almost exactly how it works. A big dish with a diode across it. Now, these tend to be big fancy microwave diodes, which even for signal-levels tend to cost $100 or so, not the $0.10 Radio Shack variety.
A common variety is called a "Gunnplexer", which is essentially a tuned cavity and a pair of shottkey diodes.
Perhaps you should study the photoelectric effect. A photon/electromagnetic wave quanta of sufficient energy can cause an electron to jump into a higher-energy state, possibly even ionizing if it has enough energy. Below this trigger energy state, it won't move. Period. No matter how many of these low-energy photons you hit it with.
I would much rather be working around a powerline carrying 66,000V at dozens of amps than spend any amount of time near a small gamma source. The VLF (very low frequency) band won't ionize me and cause cancer (although it might cause eddy currents which could resonante and cause small amounts of higher-energy radiation...). The gamma source can cause cancer or even radiation poisioning from prolonged contact.
Actually, I got a chance to play with one of these machines. They really are little more than a tesla coil.
The early tests had problems with arcing because of the voltages involved and some imperfect geometry of the transmitting surface (before Tesla invented the knobby-globe surface).
The frequencies involved were usually on the order of several dozens to several hundred megahertz, which is generally considered VHF or UHF by today's standards, although it does reach into the microwave band.
As for anything metallic picking it up, it was a limitation of the design. At the time, the highest current switching elements were spark-gaps, which tended to produce wide-band emissions, tuned only by the coil itself. A modern system would use an active power element (a high-power amplifier tube (which is a big steel tank that fills a room) is the most likely candidate, since solid state components don't generally like the amount of power drive involved), which would allow a closed-loop tuned resonance, producing very little RF outside of the target band. Based on coil geometry, anything in a wide range of frequencies can be effectively generated.
If anyone wonders, Tesla invented this technology in the late 1800's, before there was such a thing as a room-sized high-power steel vaccum tube. In fact, these tubes are relatively modern designs, and are commonly used in high-power AM radio transmitters, where a tremendous amount of power dissipation is required (since AM requires a class A amplifier, which wastes 50% of the power).
The interesting thing is a study done by the cell-phone companies now reccomends that people wear headsets and keep the phones away from their head, because they (slightly) increase the risk of brain tumors. (I don't remember exactly where I saw this study... but *shrug*).
The real question is if you can cause cancer with heat. If heat can cause cancer, microwaves surely can. If you don't believe that microwaves can cause heat... well... um... ya.
Microwave ovens were once used as countermeasures against incoming radar-seeking missiles, although that doesn't exactly count as terrorist attacks.
If you decided to boil your brain, it would likely lower your grades. And try icecream after it's been microwaved a couple times:)
It's not lead, it's usually copper. The microwave oven generally produces no xray or other "nuclear-esque" radiation, so they use a conductive wire (copper usually) grid, grounded, with holes smaller than the wavelength, to block the microwaves.
Now, an interesting one is the amount of lead in CRT glass. CRT's and X-Ray tubes are surprisingly similar...
The Logitech Trackman Marble FX has a little red button that switches the trackball to scrolling mode. I've never had much use for this feature in linux, mostly because it really isn't supported (but i did, once, get all 4 buttons working just as buttons), but the idea is interesting.
I'd actually personally rather like to see a trackball with a secondary, smaller trackball integrated for scrolling and/or 3D applications.
The FastTrack protocol, used by Kazaa (and a couple others) encrypts the control stream. This makes FastTrack one of the safest networks for users, since it would involve circumvention of encryption to sniff the traffic.
How many others out there have had cease-and-desists sent to them/their ISP by the MPAA? I left a couple episodes of Stargate on gnutella (literally 2)... and they sent me a C&D. (My quick, flippant answer to the MPAA "cracking down" on TV shows... SELL THEM TO ME!! how else am i supposed to get them?) Luckily they got a lot of critical information wrong (like the port# on my machine).
If this was done on FastTrack, I could sue the MPAA for violating the DMCA:) I think Freenet may be even better for this, using more thorough encryption, but I haven't looked at it yet.
I once, in a random act of weirdness decided to try to break zoning restrictions and all common sense. I started a light machine works/PC-board etch lab in a spare bedroom in the apartment I was renting.
Oddly, it never became a problem. The neighbours complained plenty when I turned on my stereo, but not when I was grinding steel below their bedroom at 2AM.
I managed at one point to have either UPS or Fedex arriving once a week, sometimes with 50lb crates. This still didn't match when I had 4x8' sheets of 3/4" MDF delivered to the door. Oddly, despite all this, nobody ever complained.
I would NOT reccomend doing this. Software is one thing, but apartment buildings are not really suitable for light industrial work. Goodness knows how much I could have been sued for half of this:P
Oops... My prices were true as of several months ago. DVD+R is a newer technology and has, historically, been more expensive.
That said, a quick look at the current prices quickly confirms what you say... the two are about parity price-wise. Looks like it'll be a DVD+R drive after all (just about to run out the door and get it:P)
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This could very well pull some of the crowd who love UNIX workstations, especially with the specs on that new chip.
I would even go as far as to suspect that IBM's Linux services division would be upset at this.
From IBM's own mouth, they make over 80% of their revenues on custom integrations and support, which means that GPL software is a good choice from their perspective. Proprietary software wouldn't make them much more money.
My religion tells me it's not stealing to make copies of files. How else are we to grep for the meaning of life?
Back in the day I even learned how to do OOP in QBasic.
Just pass parameters by reference. You can then modify the parameter from inside the function. It's been a long while since I wrote in that language though.
I loved electricity from a very young age. I had a bin of wires when I was 5 :P
Yes, I'm quite serious. I also went on to design and built a couple neural nets when I was 14-15. The second one, which had an actual learning algorithm, spanned 2 of the really massive breadboards. I'm surprised I managed to wire it correctly.
But I designed every part of it. My parents were artists and couldn't follow me. My only reference was "Getting started in electronics", which taught me how to use logic gates.
Never underestimate the 12-year-old.
Shottkey TTL runs at 50MHz or more. You only need 20MHz or so for a basic VGA dotclock. Where's the problem here?
Actually, it _IS_ pretty sad, when you think about it. Phenolic resin (bakelite) is easy enough for one person to make. Solder is relatively simple to make from refined lead/tin. Even from ore it's not especially difficult. Electricity is the easiest of all. Just put up a windmill, or build a heliostat.
Honestly, you don't have any of the ones that the lesbian /.ers would go for there. No Angelina Jolie (done up like in Hackers... *purrr*), no Alysson Hannigan (Willow, like, ya), no Lexa Doig (Andromeda's sexy AI). What's up with that?
I thought the PDP-11 was about (or more than) 20 years old? I can't really see Linux going away, when things like Unix and X have been around for nearly this long already.
Actually, the microwave oven uses the same frequency (because they have one, fixed-frequency magnatron), but duty-cycle to cut the overall power down (have you ever wondered why the microwave sounds different at different times? that's why).
A common variety is called a "Gunnplexer", which is essentially a tuned cavity and a pair of shottkey diodes.
(i mean... he invented encrypted wireless networking (the RC submarine, if you're curious)).
I would much rather be working around a powerline carrying 66,000V at dozens of amps than spend any amount of time near a small gamma source. The VLF (very low frequency) band won't ionize me and cause cancer (although it might cause eddy currents which could resonante and cause small amounts of higher-energy radiation...). The gamma source can cause cancer or even radiation poisioning from prolonged contact.
Actually, as I recall, Marconi was in violation of 14 of Tesla's patents for radio transmission when he made his historic broadcast.
The early tests had problems with arcing because of the voltages involved and some imperfect geometry of the transmitting surface (before Tesla invented the knobby-globe surface).
The frequencies involved were usually on the order of several dozens to several hundred megahertz, which is generally considered VHF or UHF by today's standards, although it does reach into the microwave band.
As for anything metallic picking it up, it was a limitation of the design. At the time, the highest current switching elements were spark-gaps, which tended to produce wide-band emissions, tuned only by the coil itself. A modern system would use an active power element (a high-power amplifier tube (which is a big steel tank that fills a room) is the most likely candidate, since solid state components don't generally like the amount of power drive involved), which would allow a closed-loop tuned resonance, producing very little RF outside of the target band. Based on coil geometry, anything in a wide range of frequencies can be effectively generated.
If anyone wonders, Tesla invented this technology in the late 1800's, before there was such a thing as a room-sized high-power steel vaccum tube. In fact, these tubes are relatively modern designs, and are commonly used in high-power AM radio transmitters, where a tremendous amount of power dissipation is required (since AM requires a class A amplifier, which wastes 50% of the power).
The real question is if you can cause cancer with heat. If heat can cause cancer, microwaves surely can. If you don't believe that microwaves can cause heat... well... um... ya.
Microwave ovens were once used as countermeasures against incoming radar-seeking missiles, although that doesn't exactly count as terrorist attacks.
If you decided to boil your brain, it would likely lower your grades. And try icecream after it's been microwaved a couple times :)
The last two are farfetched at any power level.
Now, an interesting one is the amount of lead in CRT glass. CRT's and X-Ray tubes are surprisingly similar...
I'd actually personally rather like to see a trackball with a secondary, smaller trackball integrated for scrolling and/or 3D applications.
How many others out there have had cease-and-desists sent to them/their ISP by the MPAA? I left a couple episodes of Stargate on gnutella (literally 2)... and they sent me a C&D. (My quick, flippant answer to the MPAA "cracking down" on TV shows... SELL THEM TO ME!! how else am i supposed to get them?) Luckily they got a lot of critical information wrong (like the port# on my machine).
If this was done on FastTrack, I could sue the MPAA for violating the DMCA :) I think Freenet may be even better for this, using more thorough encryption, but I haven't looked at it yet.
In these areas, Industrial space is MUCH cheaper than residential by area. The problem is finding a sufficiently small factory :)
Oddly, it never became a problem. The neighbours complained plenty when I turned on my stereo, but not when I was grinding steel below their bedroom at 2AM.
I managed at one point to have either UPS or Fedex arriving once a week, sometimes with 50lb crates. This still didn't match when I had 4x8' sheets of 3/4" MDF delivered to the door. Oddly, despite all this, nobody ever complained.
I would NOT reccomend doing this. Software is one thing, but apartment buildings are not really suitable for light industrial work. Goodness knows how much I could have been sued for half of this :P
That said, a quick look at the current prices quickly confirms what you say... the two are about parity price-wise. Looks like it'll be a DVD+R drive after all (just about to run out the door and get it :P)