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> Watch as the bellhop rounds a corner and the suitcases jump out of his hands!
Wouldn't the Bellhop notice that the suitcases are slightly trembling, as soon as he picks them up (a little bit like the feel of a holding a spinning HD in your hands)? And what about that whirring sound?
And, as the prankster himself has to walk in a straight line with the suitcases once they're active, wouldn't this force him to do the spinning up part in a straight line before the hotel lobby (and thus probably in plain view)?
> Believe it or not, people cheat when playing quake too.
Well, quake is a game, so it is a little bit more understandeable (although still not excusable) that people . Seti, on the other hand, was supposed to be a cooperative effort, so this seems odd.
Unfortunately, in order to make it more interesting, and attract the public, SETI's organizers spized it up with high-score lists. Which not only brought more participants, but also provided an incentive to cheat...
A simple solution would be to pull the lists or to only publish aggregate data ("so many blocks calculated by all participants combined")
> Wouldn't _you_ want to be the one who discovered a cell call from ET?
Don't you think that SETI would verify the calculations on their own boxes before rushing off to the NY Times with the news?
However, the other way of cheating, namely reporting false negatives is almost impossible to detect, and I'd think that is what the article is concerned about.
What they had for lunch? Why the fuck do they need to keep that info on file? To help the parents keep their kids slim and good looking? Isn't it the kids' right to prefer a good and tasty steak over a nice physical appearance?
Ok, so kids will now go to the Mac Donalds next door rather than eating at the canteen, and this system will have achieved the exact opposite from what was intended.
> It doesnt take a big company to tell me how to design a "general purpose chip" (as they put it) that will provide me with CONTROLLED resistance and impedence.
If you have to design a new chip for the purpose, it ain't a general purpose chip anymore...
What they mean is that (until now...) you couldn't just rush off to Radio Shack, and wire some off-the-shelf parts (Nand Gates, Asics, processors,...) together to obtain a circuit that is tuneable to any given RF frequency.
Re:Highway speeds? No, no, no...
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> If you used these on the street, do you have any idea how fast they'd wear out?
Use metal threads instead. Than you'd wear out the street...;-)
Re:I wonder if I could...
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> Does this mean there's going to start being chevy vs ford flame wars in here now?
Not sure about DeCSS, but scientology will have a way to "protect" themselves against free expression on this place: they'll just assign a "handler" to it, who watches the board day and night, and videotapes/harasses anybody who sets out to write anything anti-clam on it.
> But please, show each other some respect. Calling RMS a 'total loon' (or, like ESR, making vicious remarks about his personal hygiene) is way out of line, IMHO.
But that's what Linus basically did, when comparing Mundie's body odor to that of a 300 year old cadaver...
Not. As mentioned in numerous comments in the previous article about this plane, it is not remote controlled, but robotic, i.e. it has an onboard computer controlling the plane. The radio link is only used to update the mission plan, or to send back data, but not to fly the plane.
Remote controlled planes have already existed for a long time (called drones), but have the disadvantage of not being radio-silent (have to permantently transmit back instruments reading, camera view, etc) to the base station, which makes them unfortunately easy to detect...
> Why wasn't backwards compatibility built in to this?
Actually, backwards compatibility was built into this. The problem is buggy equipment, which misbehaves when presented with option bits which it doesn't understand. This behavior violates RFC 791 Section 3.1 "A router MUST ignore IP options which it does not recognize.". Which means, pass on the packet with these options unchanged, rather than silently dropping them.
No, I mean their Instant messaging server (you know, "Instant Messaging", as mentioned in the article).
AOLserver does not do that, it is just a web server!
> Now please shut the fuck up already and stop posting your bullshit with a +1 bonus.
Now please read the article, and stop recommending products which don't address the problem at hand.
Does your 486 already contain the AOL server code, or will I need to download that from somewhere? If so, from where?
Oh, I can't download it? Thought so.
Re:Small Building syndrome...
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But at least, Clinton was elected democratically!
Re:Terrorists oughta love this one
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> The WTC bombing literally destroyed several levels of parking but did not bring down the structure itself
That was because the bomb was not properly placed. Had it been fixed to a sustaining pillar, or, better, put into a hole drilled in a pillar, the effects would have been much more drastic, as whitnessed the year after at OKC.
> As I understand it, cabin pressurization is not activated until appx. 5000-6000 feet altitude, at which point the valves that control air exchange are closed and cabin pressure is maintained at 6000-8000 feet.
Nowadays, cabin pressure is maintained at around 1000 meters (~3000 feet). Take an altimeter on board and check it out! And this is done actively using pumps, rather than just closing a valve. Btw, this allows to have the "virtual" (pressure) altitude to augment slower than real one, and stretch out the raise or decrease of pressure over a longer period to make it less painful. Unfortunately, this seems to be under pilot control, and not all do it equally well... So you may blame the pilot not only for the shaky landing, but also for the popping ears;-)
N.B. On some flights, pressure is actually decreased on landing, as seen on flights from Guyaquil to Quito: at start, cabin pressure is slowly decreased to 1000m (as usual), but some ten minutes before landing, it is further decreased to 3000m (the actual altitude of Quito)...
> Strange they didn't pick OS/365 as the next release indication the OS would work every day of the year with no downtime.
Actually, these machines need (at least) one hour downtime per year, in the fall, when they turn back the clocks... Indeed, the system clock is kept in local time rather than GMT, and thus the double occurrence of that hour when turning back the clock would hopelessly confuse the OS, which might then start some batch jobs twice. Easy solution: turn off the machine for an hour...
I'd be more concerned about the very real disk full problems that can show up in Visual Source Safe, than about the mythical CVS gnomes that eat your lunch.
If you don't carefully monitor the available disk space, and regularly take backups, you may suddenly encounter the interesting situation that all your repository is trashed, because VSS is not able to correctly deal with low-resource conditions.
Plus, VSS's command line interface sucks, which makes it somewhat hard to interconnect VSS with other programs such as Emacs' VC mode.
> To show the world that the direction of IBM's mainframe software is making a dramatic turn of 360 degrees.
Actually, funny as it sounds, this is indeed the real reason for the name: before OS/360, mainframes where mostly special-purpose machines. In order to illustrate the fact that IBM's new mainframes could handle the "full circle of applications", they names it System 360. 360 degrees is a full circle. The next version was OS/370 (version numbers tend to increase), then came OS/380 and finally OS/390.
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Wouldn't the Bellhop notice that the suitcases are slightly trembling, as soon as he picks them up (a little bit like the feel of a holding a spinning HD in your hands)? And what about that whirring sound?
And, as the prankster himself has to walk in a straight line with the suitcases once they're active, wouldn't this force him to do the spinning up part in a straight line before the hotel lobby (and thus probably in plain view)?
Actually, many are connected to neighboring towers via microwave links.
Well, quake is a game, so it is a little bit more understandeable (although still not excusable) that people . Seti, on the other hand, was supposed to be a cooperative effort, so this seems odd.
Unfortunately, in order to make it more interesting, and attract the public, SETI's organizers spized it up with high-score lists. Which not only brought more participants, but also provided an incentive to cheat...
A simple solution would be to pull the lists or to only publish aggregate data ("so many blocks calculated by all participants combined")
> Wouldn't _you_ want to be the one who discovered a cell call from ET?
Don't you think that SETI would verify the calculations on their own boxes before rushing off to the NY Times with the news?
However, the other way of cheating, namely reporting false negatives is almost impossible to detect, and I'd think that is what the article is concerned about.
Ok, so kids will now go to the Mac Donalds next door rather than eating at the canteen, and this system will have achieved the exact opposite from what was intended.
If you have to design a new chip for the purpose, it ain't a general purpose chip anymore...
What they mean is that (until now...) you couldn't just rush off to Radio Shack, and wire some off-the-shelf parts (Nand Gates, Asics, processors, ...) together to obtain a circuit that is tuneable to any given RF frequency.
Use metal threads instead. Than you'd wear out the street... ;-)
Guess you didn't read this story.
Not sure about DeCSS, but scientology will have a way to "protect" themselves against free expression on this place: they'll just assign a "handler" to it, who watches the board day and night, and videotapes/harasses anybody who sets out to write anything anti-clam on it.
But that's what Linus basically did, when comparing Mundie's body odor to that of a 300 year old cadaver...
Not only can it be used by any idiot, but it's a nice piece of furnishing too, just like your comfy sofa!
Remote controlled planes have already existed for a long time (called drones), but have the disadvantage of not being radio-silent (have to permantently transmit back instruments reading, camera view, etc) to the base station, which makes them unfortunately easy to detect...
Actually, backwards compatibility was built into this. The problem is buggy equipment, which misbehaves when presented with option bits which it doesn't understand. This behavior violates RFC 791 Section 3.1 "A router MUST ignore IP options which it does not recognize.". Which means, pass on the packet with these options unchanged, rather than silently dropping them.
No, I mean their Instant messaging server (you know, "Instant Messaging", as mentioned in the article). AOLserver does not do that, it is just a web server!
> Now please shut the fuck up already and stop posting your bullshit with a +1 bonus.
Now please read the article, and stop recommending products which don't address the problem at hand.
Guess that's why a Republican was elected, rather than a Democrat... ;-)
Oh, I can't download it? Thought so.
But at least, Clinton was elected democratically!
That was because the bomb was not properly placed. Had it been fixed to a sustaining pillar, or, better, put into a hole drilled in a pillar, the effects would have been much more drastic, as whitnessed the year after at OKC.
But what if you dived just before visiting a top office in that building?
Nowadays, cabin pressure is maintained at around 1000 meters (~3000 feet). Take an altimeter on board and check it out! And this is done actively using pumps, rather than just closing a valve. Btw, this allows to have the "virtual" (pressure) altitude to augment slower than real one, and stretch out the raise or decrease of pressure over a longer period to make it less painful. Unfortunately, this seems to be under pilot control, and not all do it equally well... So you may blame the pilot not only for the shaky landing, but also for the popping ears ;-)
N.B. On some flights, pressure is actually decreased on landing, as seen on flights from Guyaquil to Quito: at start, cabin pressure is slowly decreased to 1000m (as usual), but some ten minutes before landing, it is further decreased to 3000m (the actual altitude of Quito)...
Actually, these machines need (at least) one hour downtime per year, in the fall, when they turn back the clocks... Indeed, the system clock is kept in local time rather than GMT, and thus the double occurrence of that hour when turning back the clock would hopelessly confuse the OS, which might then start some batch jobs twice. Easy solution: turn off the machine for an hour...
If you don't carefully monitor the available disk space, and regularly take backups, you may suddenly encounter the interesting situation that all your repository is trashed, because VSS is not able to correctly deal with low-resource conditions.
Plus, VSS's command line interface sucks, which makes it somewhat hard to interconnect VSS with other programs such as Emacs' VC mode.
Actually, funny as it sounds, this is indeed the real reason for the name: before OS/360, mainframes where mostly special-purpose machines. In order to illustrate the fact that IBM's new mainframes could handle the "full circle of applications", they names it System 360. 360 degrees is a full circle. The next version was OS/370 (version numbers tend to increase), then came OS/380 and finally OS/390.
Nope. According to this page, it was the name of the first rock group that Ronnie James Dio performed with back in the early 1970's.
Didn't Scientology actually own Earthlink at a certain time? Or still own it?