But to just carry on the way they did when they determined he wasn't a threat, seems truly unreasonable.
They did it to save face. police embarassment because they made a mistake is unacceptable and there will be consequences. it's too bad innocent citizens have to pay in order to satisfy police egos.
the us has meddled in south american affairs orders of magnitude more often than in the middle east. we've been doing it far longer too. hell, by comparison we're only getting started in the middle east.
if foreign meddling = terrorism then the US should be seeing south american suicide bombers daily in the US.
so uh, where are they? (crickets chirping) uhh.. hello? (more crickets)
you misunderstand the nature of this enemy. islamists are attacking people and countries who have never had anything to do with the middle east or muslims. they are being attacked because they are not muslim. all you have to do is read the filth spewing from their own islamist publications. they would be (and do) attack people and nations that have not even so much as set foot inside a muslim country. they are attacking westerners because we exist. the existence of non muslim countries and non muslims is an affront to them and must be converted or destroyed.
You really think the next bombing will be people carrying cellphones, laptops and rucksacks? No. The next bombing will be people who are completely outside the narrowminded profiling the police are using.
This actually makes the population less safe because police are focusing their attention on the wrong things and wasting precious resources chasing shadows. While they are busy jumping all over innocent bystanders, it will provide the real criminals the distraction they need.
the problem with the way osx does ftp though, at least through finder, is that it mounts it as a filesystem, and when the remote ftp site goes out to lunch it sometimes takes osx with it. it also makes it impossible to parallelize tasks to a single remote site. the way ftpfs does it, everything gets serialized and blocks. a slow remote ftp site will make finder slow to a crawl.
ftpfs also groks an extremely limited dialect of ftp, it gets easily confused by various ftp server software that kioslave (or mozilla, camino, etc.) doesn't have any problems with.
your ppro has 256k (or more) l1 and l2 cache. it can also issue and execute instructions out of order. the strongarm has none of these features.
the cache alone makes an enormous difference, the out of order execution on top of that results in a cpu which is about 50% faster than the strongarm right off the bat.
not to mention -- much of doom was hand coded x86 assembly. the zaurus arm port obviously can't use that, and afaik no arm assembly equivalents have been written so the doom port uses straight C.
one user account on the entire system : administrator
beos has no permissions, period. everything runs as "root". in the 1980s this might have been acceptable for a pc, but in the 2000s it is most definitely not.
How does one be a productive member of society when not permitted to use computers?
Ask kevin mitnick, or kevin lee poulsen. both seem to have managed just fine. just because you can't imagine being a functioning member of society without a computer doesn't mean it's not possible.
iter is a research reactor. it wont answer all the roadblock engineering issues for fusion and it won't produce net power. i was quoting a $trillion as an estimate of what it would take to produce a working viable fusion reactor that produces net power, i think your $100 billion estimate is a bit low.
and as usual these projects tend to grow like most massive projects do, so i would not be suprised if that $10b inflates to $20b or $30b.
the saturn V computer was also solid state. part of the bulk was that the computer was triple redundant with 2-of-3 voting. the computer proper was 2.5'^3 and weighed 72lbs. it was a 26bit cpu, with 32k memory, and ran a realtime os like apollo's dsky.
it's interesting to note that the apollo computer could take over the saturn V in the case of a saturn V computer failure. the saturn computer was also used to control skylab -- while in orbit.
the sensors were analogue, the computation and guidance control was all digital. there were no electromechanical parts in the computer, but there were in the sensors.
i guess you could call your desktop PC a mix of analogue and digital computers if you consider your mouse part of your CPU.
The computers and circuits most definitely did not operate in the 10's of hz range. They were not electromechanical devices. You're thinking that the apollo computers were mechanical relays like the telephone switches in the 1950s, and that's wrong.
The guidance computers were solid state devices -- resistors, transistors, albeit mostly wire wrapped. Memory was magnetic core. Still not electromechanical. The 16-bit (!!) processors operated at 1mhz. It even used ICs!
The microprocessor wasn't invented until 1971, that doesn't mean solid state digital computer processors of any kind didn't exist before then, or that ICs didn't exist before then.
The apollo computers _issued commands to mechanical spacecraft controls at 25hz_, not too far off from what spacecraft use today. That doesn't mean the CPU processed instructions at 10's of hz.
fwiw what you call a "monstrosity" really isn't much larger than a typical 4U rackmount server in most datacenters today.
lunar based power stations. solar energy is a lot easier to collect there, and it can be permanently manned far easier than say, an orbital platform.
as to not very interesting, thats relative. geologists would strongly disagree with you that the moon is not interesting.
and no, $100 billion wont build a fusion reactor. its quite likely $1 trillion wont build one either. fusion isnt one of those problems you can just solve by throwing endless sums of money at it.
No. It's not the electronic lag in transmissions. It's the lag inherent in all mechanical devices, something which has to still be accounted for in designs to this day. If you tell a rocket nozzle to throttle up or point in a new direction, it's going to take time to get there -- whether it's 1960s technology or 2000s technology. Maybe it'll get there faster than it would have in 1969, but it's not 0 milliseconds.
To turn things around... Do you think all other consumer electronics companies are perfect and have never had class-action action suits filed against them?
no, but it goes to show that apple is just as mediocre as any other company when it comes to consumer products. for a company of its size, apple seems to have a disproportionately large number of class actions (vs say a much larger corporation like sony).
From the interviews, one gets the impression that Gates things microsoft has to own the world. Instead of just doing a few things or even many things well, he seems to think microsoft has to dominate everything.
Any time some new technology or service emerges, he becomes obsessed with completely dominating it.
How many simultaneous directions can microsoft go before they completely lose focus and become spread too thin?
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But to just carry on the way they did when they determined he wasn't a threat, seems truly unreasonable.
They did it to save face. police embarassment because they made a mistake is unacceptable and there will be consequences. it's too bad innocent citizens have to pay in order to satisfy police egos.
the us has meddled in south american affairs orders of magnitude more often than in the middle east. we've been doing it far longer too. hell, by comparison we're only getting started in the middle east.
if foreign meddling = terrorism then the US should be seeing south american suicide bombers daily in the US.
so uh, where are they? (crickets chirping) uhh.. hello? (more crickets)
you misunderstand the nature of this enemy. islamists are attacking people and countries who have never had anything to do with the middle east or muslims. they are being attacked because they are not muslim. all you have to do is read the filth spewing from their own islamist publications. they would be (and do) attack people and nations that have not even so much as set foot inside a muslim country. they are attacking westerners because we exist. the existence of non muslim countries and non muslims is an affront to them and must be converted or destroyed.
You really think the next bombing will be people carrying cellphones, laptops and rucksacks? No. The next bombing will be people who are completely outside the narrowminded profiling the police are using.
This actually makes the population less safe because police are focusing their attention on the wrong things and wasting precious resources chasing shadows. While they are busy jumping all over innocent bystanders, it will provide the real criminals the distraction they need.
Way to go!
it's racist, and i think you should talk to the aclu. the people doing it won't stop unless it hits their individual pocketbook.
the problem with the way osx does ftp though, at least through finder, is that it mounts it as a filesystem, and when the remote ftp site goes out to lunch it sometimes takes osx with it. it also makes it impossible to parallelize tasks to a single remote site. the way ftpfs does it, everything gets serialized and blocks. a slow remote ftp site will make finder slow to a crawl.
ftpfs also groks an extremely limited dialect of ftp, it gets easily confused by various ftp server software that kioslave (or mozilla, camino, etc.) doesn't have any problems with.
no, kioslave really is the best way to do it.
google should just refuse to index any book by any author's guild author.
there's plenty of other authors who would be falling all over themselves for the free advertising they would get from google.
no, it looks for pattern of reflection from the assemblies inside the lens. otherwise you'd end up targeting anything highly reflective, like windows.
your ppro has 256k (or more) l1 and l2 cache. it can also issue and execute instructions out of order. the strongarm has none of these features.
the cache alone makes an enormous difference, the out of order execution on top of that results in a cpu which is about 50% faster than the strongarm right off the bat.
not to mention -- much of doom was hand coded x86 assembly. the zaurus arm port obviously can't use that, and afaik no arm assembly equivalents have been written so the doom port uses straight C.
single user in this context means:
one user account on the entire system : administrator
beos has no permissions, period. everything runs as "root". in the 1980s this might have been acceptable for a pc, but in the 2000s it is most definitely not.
How does one be a productive member of society when not permitted to use computers?
Ask kevin mitnick, or kevin lee poulsen. both seem to have managed just fine. just because you can't imagine being a functioning member of society without a computer doesn't mean it's not possible.
do you consider a slide rule or a sextant an analogue computer? :)
iter is a research reactor. it wont answer all the roadblock engineering issues for fusion and it won't produce net power. i was quoting a $trillion as an estimate of what it would take to produce a working viable fusion reactor that produces net power, i think your $100 billion estimate is a bit low.
and as usual these projects tend to grow like most massive projects do, so i would not be suprised if that $10b inflates to $20b or $30b.
the saturn V computer was also solid state. part of the bulk was that the computer was triple redundant with 2-of-3 voting. the computer proper was 2.5'^3 and weighed 72lbs. it was a 26bit cpu, with 32k memory, and ran a realtime os like apollo's dsky.
it's interesting to note that the apollo computer could take over the saturn V in the case of a saturn V computer failure. the saturn computer was also used to control skylab -- while in orbit.
the sensors were analogue, the computation and guidance control was all digital. there were no electromechanical parts in the computer, but there were in the sensors.
i guess you could call your desktop PC a mix of analogue and digital computers if you consider your mouse part of your CPU.
or maybe it'll force him to stop using computers to attack people and get a life instead.
bomb threats are silly pranks? go ahead and make one then, see how silly the police think it is.
ddos are silly pranks? go ahead and ddos then, see how long you get away with it before the fbi pay you a visit.
did you make bomb threats? did you conduct ddos in retaliation when your ill-gotten-device was disabled?
even as a juvenile, it takes a real kind of asshole to make bomb threats post 9/11.
No.
The computers and circuits most definitely did not operate in the 10's of hz range. They were not electromechanical devices. You're thinking that the apollo computers were mechanical relays like the telephone switches in the 1950s, and that's wrong.
The guidance computers were solid state devices -- resistors, transistors, albeit mostly wire wrapped. Memory was magnetic core. Still not electromechanical. The 16-bit (!!) processors operated at 1mhz. It even used ICs!
The microprocessor wasn't invented until 1971, that doesn't mean solid state digital computer processors of any kind didn't exist before then, or that ICs didn't exist before then.
The apollo computers _issued commands to mechanical spacecraft controls at 25hz_, not too far off from what spacecraft use today. That doesn't mean the CPU processed instructions at 10's of hz .
fwiw what you call a "monstrosity" really isn't much larger than a typical 4U rackmount server in most datacenters today.
lunar based power stations. solar energy is a lot easier to collect there, and it can be permanently manned far easier than say, an orbital platform.
as to not very interesting, thats relative. geologists would strongly disagree with you that the moon is not interesting.
and no, $100 billion wont build a fusion reactor. its quite likely $1 trillion wont build one either. fusion isnt one of those problems you can just solve by throwing endless sums of money at it.
fund space exploration or iraq war. choose one.
No. It's not the electronic lag in transmissions. It's the lag inherent in all mechanical devices, something which has to still be accounted for in designs to this day. If you tell a rocket nozzle to throttle up or point in a new direction, it's going to take time to get there -- whether it's 1960s technology or 2000s technology. Maybe it'll get there faster than it would have in 1969, but it's not 0 milliseconds.
no, but it goes to show that apple is just as mediocre as any other company when it comes to consumer products. for a company of its size, apple seems to have a disproportionately large number of class actions (vs say a much larger corporation like sony).
Final approval granted for G3 Mac OS X settlement
Judge approves settlement in iPod class action suit
Class action lawsuit filed against Apple (over deceptive warranty claims and predatory practices against resellers)
ibook faulty power adapter class action
apple narrowly missed a class action regarding defective ibook g3 logic boards, though unsolved quality issues persist ("Quality issues")
my friend still wants to know why apple insists on installing itunes on his headless xserve running osx server.
because when you jump on discoveries without thorough and careful investigation, you get fiascos like this.
From the interviews, one gets the impression that Gates things microsoft has to own the world. Instead of just doing a few things or even many things well, he seems to think microsoft has to dominate everything.
Any time some new technology or service emerges, he becomes obsessed with completely dominating it.
How many simultaneous directions can microsoft go before they completely lose focus and become spread too thin?
which computer vendor is covering up the fact their computer products kill or injure people?