I think the point was the caffeine, so you could just as easily use espresso, which would probably let you at least physically drink that much of it...
A folding knife that doesn't have a lock is called a gravity knife. In the US, they're in the same legal category as switchblades because no lock means you can flick it open quickly. Here, that means they're illegal to carry in most places and illegal to transport across state lines without a license. I would be very surprized if a locking pocket knife like a Swiss Army Knife is considered a weapon and a non-locking one wasn't.
In fact, the legal case you site is for a knife with a more heavy duty locking mechanism that requires a button to be pressed to close it. A Swiss Army Knife is held open by a spring type mechanism. To close it, you push on the back of the blade (no button to press). Thus a Swiss Army Knife is not what that case calls a "lock knife".
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Um... huh? You're not allowed to take any kind of flammable or explosive device with you onboard an airplane. They explicitly state that cigarette lighters are not allowed. You must check them and you must tell the airline that you have done so.
Asking questions is fine. That's what science is. But stating that something is true without anything (empirical, mathematical or whatever) to back it up is quackery.
The problem with conspiracy theories on this scale in my opinion is that if they really didn't want us to know, we wouldn't know. They would suppress the people trying to expose them before they said anything at all, and we'd never hear about it. They manage to hide so many other things from us so well that later come out when they aren't as important anymore that I find it hard to believe that if they don't want us to know something that we will ever hear about it. But that's just my opinion.
As for SCO & MS, I for one am not "perfectly willing to believe conspiracies" between them without some kind of real evidence.
I don't really understand your question. I don't really know much about memory systems. I was just working it out the way it made sense to me, without worrying about overhead and addressing systems. In any case, (if I understand correctly about the address bit) 63 bits would still mean that 2.5 TB is something like 2 millionths of the max addressible ram (even less if each memory address is more than one bit).
Huh? 2.5TB=2.5*8*2^12 bits. 64 bits can adress nearly 2^44 times that much memory. This is irrelevant though, since they say it's spread out over many machines (45, I'm guessing, since a typical rack is 45 units+these are 3 unit machines and 45*64GB=2.8TB).
The top end model actually comes with a 5700, not a 5200, but that's already been pointed out.
However, the $1499 model:
comes with 2.8GHz P4 (not P4E) instead of 3.0 P4E
has an 80GB hard disk instead of 120GB
has only 512MB of RAM instead of 1GB
has a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive instead of a DVD-R drive
comes with XP Home instead of Professional, and
uses the graphics chipset that comes with the Intel 865G instead of the GeForce.
If you still think that's a good deal, that's your choice. Personally, I can think of other $1500 and $2000 laptops I'd rather have which weigh less, have longer battery life and/or more CPU power.
I know a guy who has a Korean grad student who doesn't speak English very well. He manages to produce subject lines for the messages he sends that get him blocked by spam filters nearly all the time. Not his fault really, but it happens.
Actually, one of the nice things about He3 is that it's hard to turn it into a superfluid. He4 becomes superfluid at a couple degrees K (2 or so, I think), but He3 requires VERY low temperatures (a few millikelvi) to become superfluid. That's because He4 is a Boson (spin 3) but He3 is a Fermion (spin 2.5).
I was always under the impression that Hobbits were supposed to be really really good rock throwers. I can't remember where this comes from, but I know we even integrated it into a quasi-Tolkein based sport once (don't ask), such that the younger kids (who we called hobbits) playing could pick up "rocks" and kill people with them, even though no one else could.
By that logic, it should have been 64 years between switching to 32 bit from 16 and to 64 from 32. When did x86 finally switch from 16 bit to 32 bit? I don't think it was in 1971.
More addressable memory isn't the only benefit of having more bits per CPU, and even if it were, I think your estimate for how fast things double is off by at least a factor of 2 or so.
That was confusing for me too, but I think s/he's saying that the Mac and x86 hardware haven't changed much in a long time, but now we're getting 64 bit Macs (G5) and x86-64 (Opteron/Athlon64), which the closed source software makers (ie Microsoft) are having trouble with, while the open source ones (Linux developers and Apple through Darwin) aren't having the same issues.
I am confused by that link... perhaps you can clarify. The only 64 bit x86 CPU out in 2001 was the Itanium, and in fact, that site says that the 64 bit NetBSD fork was originally called "NetBSD/x86_64" and only renamed to "NedBSD/amd64" this year. AFAIK, IA64 and Hammer are not the same instruction set. How does this work, since the original 64 bit x86 NetBSD could not have been based on AMD64?
...if you take this attitude, then either the code is in fact in the Linux kernel and they have a legit claim to file suit, or it's not in the kernel, and their Trade Secrets are in fact still secret. Since the US legal system seems to have a history of not penalizing plaintiffs for losing false or frivolous lawsuits, it doesn't surprize me all that much that the judge would allow this argument, so that when, god willing, they lose their case, they'll still have their Trade Secrets intact.
More seriously though, 12 hours a day at a job in Korea doesn't seem like such a big deal. I have a friend from Korea who moved here about 25 years ago. He says he gets calls from friends at home who are about to go back to work at about 1am their time, having just worked MORE than a full day already. It seems like adults there do almost nothing BUT work -- literally, not like "workaholics" over here. 12 hours a day doesn't seem so bad compared to that.
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I think the point was the caffeine, so you could just as easily use espresso, which would probably let you at least physically drink that much of it...
Um... no. 4*2+(1/2)*2 = 8+1 = 9 9 1/2.
I'm splitting hairs here, but 4 1/2 is less than half of 9 1/2. But your point is certainly valid.
A folding knife that doesn't have a lock is called a gravity knife. In the US, they're in the same legal category as switchblades because no lock means you can flick it open quickly. Here, that means they're illegal to carry in most places and illegal to transport across state lines without a license. I would be very surprized if a locking pocket knife like a Swiss Army Knife is considered a weapon and a non-locking one wasn't.
In fact, the legal case you site is for a knife with a more heavy duty locking mechanism that requires a button to be pressed to close it. A Swiss Army Knife is held open by a spring type mechanism. To close it, you push on the back of the blade (no button to press). Thus a Swiss Army Knife is not what that case calls a "lock knife".
Um... huh? You're not allowed to take any kind of flammable or explosive device with you onboard an airplane. They explicitly state that cigarette lighters are not allowed. You must check them and you must tell the airline that you have done so.
Asking questions is fine. That's what science is. But stating that something is true without anything (empirical, mathematical or whatever) to back it up is quackery.
The problem with conspiracy theories on this scale in my opinion is that if they really didn't want us to know, we wouldn't know. They would suppress the people trying to expose them before they said anything at all, and we'd never hear about it. They manage to hide so many other things from us so well that later come out when they aren't as important anymore that I find it hard to believe that if they don't want us to know something that we will ever hear about it. But that's just my opinion.
As for SCO & MS, I for one am not "perfectly willing to believe conspiracies" between them without some kind of real evidence.
I don't really understand your question. I don't really know much about memory systems. I was just working it out the way it made sense to me, without worrying about overhead and addressing systems. In any case, (if I understand correctly about the address bit) 63 bits would still mean that 2.5 TB is something like 2 millionths of the max addressible ram (even less if each memory address is more than one bit).
Huh? 2.5TB=2.5*8*2^12 bits. 64 bits can adress nearly 2^44 times that much memory. This is irrelevant though, since they say it's spread out over many machines (45, I'm guessing, since a typical rack is 45 units+these are 3 unit machines and 45*64GB=2.8TB).
This is pretty off topic, but this reminds me of the Soviet Spetznas being trained to throw shovels with deadly accuracy.
However, the $1499 model:
comes with 2.8GHz P4 (not P4E) instead of 3.0 P4E
has an 80GB hard disk instead of 120GB
has only 512MB of RAM instead of 1GB
has a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive instead of a DVD-R drive
comes with XP Home instead of Professional, and
uses the graphics chipset that comes with the Intel 865G instead of the GeForce.
If you still think that's a good deal, that's your choice. Personally, I can think of other $1500 and $2000 laptops I'd rather have which weigh less, have longer battery life and/or more CPU power.
With that much weight, I would hope that it would have a large, high capacity battery as a standard component.
IBM uses them on some of their midrange P4 workstations.
According to them, only 2% of adult American internet users visit "adult websites" on a typical day.
More seriously though, I find it hard to believe that only 54% of adults with internet access use that access on a typical day.
My source is somewhat suspect, but I'd say Dungeon Siege: the Movie would fall under that category.
I know a guy who has a Korean grad student who doesn't speak English very well. He manages to produce subject lines for the messages he sends that get him blocked by spam filters nearly all the time. Not his fault really, but it happens.
You could run UT2003/2004 through AAlib then through a text->morse code converter. That would fix your problem.
Actually, one of the nice things about He3 is that it's hard to turn it into a superfluid. He4 becomes superfluid at a couple degrees K (2 or so, I think), but He3 requires VERY low temperatures (a few millikelvi) to become superfluid. That's because He4 is a Boson (spin 3) but He3 is a Fermion (spin 2.5).
I was always under the impression that Hobbits were supposed to be really really good rock throwers. I can't remember where this comes from, but I know we even integrated it into a quasi-Tolkein based sport once (don't ask), such that the younger kids (who we called hobbits) playing could pick up "rocks" and kill people with them, even though no one else could.
"640k should be enough for anybody!"
By that logic, it should have been 64 years between switching to 32 bit from 16 and to 64 from 32. When did x86 finally switch from 16 bit to 32 bit? I don't think it was in 1971.
More addressable memory isn't the only benefit of having more bits per CPU, and even if it were, I think your estimate for how fast things double is off by at least a factor of 2 or so.
That was confusing for me too, but I think s/he's saying that the Mac and x86 hardware haven't changed much in a long time, but now we're getting 64 bit Macs (G5) and x86-64 (Opteron/Athlon64), which the closed source software makers (ie Microsoft) are having trouble with, while the open source ones (Linux developers and Apple through Darwin) aren't having the same issues.
I am confused by that link... perhaps you can clarify. The only 64 bit x86 CPU out in 2001 was the Itanium, and in fact, that site says that the 64 bit NetBSD fork was originally called "NetBSD/x86_64" and only renamed to "NedBSD/amd64" this year. AFAIK, IA64 and Hammer are not the same instruction set. How does this work, since the original 64 bit x86 NetBSD could not have been based on AMD64?
...if you take this attitude, then either the code is in fact in the Linux kernel and they have a legit claim to file suit, or it's not in the kernel, and their Trade Secrets are in fact still secret. Since the US legal system seems to have a history of not penalizing plaintiffs for losing false or frivolous lawsuits, it doesn't surprize me all that much that the judge would allow this argument, so that when, god willing, they lose their case, they'll still have their Trade Secrets intact.
Sounds like my freshman year of college.
More seriously though, 12 hours a day at a job in Korea doesn't seem like such a big deal. I have a friend from Korea who moved here about 25 years ago. He says he gets calls from friends at home who are about to go back to work at about 1am their time, having just worked MORE than a full day already. It seems like adults there do almost nothing BUT work -- literally, not like "workaholics" over here. 12 hours a day doesn't seem so bad compared to that.
Perhaps he uses a Mac as well...?
The standard way to mount a non-rack component in a rack is to use a shelf. You can get VERY sturdy metal shelves designed for this purpose.