Its funny, but its objective. They've avoided anti-trust by giving a genuine ranked answer. Apple, cowards that they are, just avoided the question altogether.
If I googled "best search engine" and google came back with "Wait, there's other search engines?" I would laugh, and then think them idiots.
Indeed, my best pan is a 9" cast iron skillet that is about 150 years old, and that's no exaggeration. Its not as non stick as teflon is, but its pretty damned good. Came over on a wagon train.
I have a client who runs a sign making business. Their CNC machine is run off an old PC or XT with a few hundred 5.25" floppies for fonts etc. Works fine, they still use it every day.
I had a friend who couldn't stop calling it "computer serve" instead of "Compuserve." But oh well.
I started personally in 1990 or 1991 with Prodigy- DXTH23B, here. It was on a 286/12 with 1MB RAM and an incredibly big 60MB hard drive. I even had VGA! I installed the modem myself, at 14 years old. I was so nervous because I didn't want to break our computer, that I was shaking! I got the modem in and then learned about IRQ's and COM ports. Those were the days! I remember being so excited when I could message my friends who used AOL and it didn't cost extra.
I remember being a young teenager asking a million questions about computers etc and getting great, solid answers. The SNR was much better back then.
Eventually I moved to AOL and BBS'ing. I was the first in my area to have 28.8kbps. I got them before they were released to the public through a friend who ran a warez bbs. The price was amazing, and in retrospect it probably fell off the back of a truck.
I even had a BBS of my own for about a week. I had my 486 all set up on Renegade IIRC. I even got the newspaper to print the number in the "technology" page on Mondays. And, they printed the wrong number. One person figured it out and called in. I gave up on BBS's, the Internet was taking off and I haven't looked back.
Sorry, but I live in Reno (Nevada) where we are home to some of the worst drivers I have ever seen. I learned to drive in southern California, and I felt perfectly safe with half a car length between a string of 10 cars doing 90mph on the fast lane. Here, I don't feel safe driving the freeway at 65mph because there are still people who are doing 45mph on the freeway!
On top of that people run red lights constantly hear, which isn't so bad really if there's consistency, but there is NOT. Driving here can be downright scary sometimes.
"JWoww" - is an advertising server, makes lots of noise but generally pretty lame content. "The.Situtaion" -- has a flashy case with lots of bright LED fans but really doesn't have a lot of CPU. "Snooki" -- This server goes down a lot
"Exascale computing refers to computing capabilities beyond the currently existing petascale. If achieved, it would represent a thousandfold increase over that scale."
To define Petascale:
"In computing, petascale refers to a computer system capable of reaching performance in excess of one petaflops, i.e. one quadrillion floating point operations per second." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petascale
A Petascale computer, the Cray XT5 Jaguar can do 1.75 petaflops. To reach an exaflop, it would require almost 6000 installations of this supercomputer.
Quote: "Designed by North American Aviation in the late 1950s, the Valkyrie was a large six-engined aircraft able to fly Mach 3+ at an altitude of 70,000 feet"
Quote: "The MiG-25 was theoretically capable of a maximum speed of Mach 3+ and a ceiling of 90,000 ft (27,000 m). Its high speed was problematic: although sufficient thrust was available to reach Mach 3.2, a limit of Mach 2.8 had to be imposed as the turbines tended to overspeed and overheat at higher speeds, possibly damaging them beyond repair"
Mig 25's couldn't handle doing Mach 3 for very long because their engines were made for unmanned drones, not because the airframe couldn't handle it.
What you quote from wikipedia about the SR-71 is what we are TOLD about it. The reality is that the friction heating at Mach 3+ is not a huge hurdle. The XB-70 had no extensive provisions for it. If you read more about the '71 you'll find out about the great lengths that the engineers went to to keep the skin of the aircraft and its internal systems cool- none of those are needed at Mach 3 or even 3.2, as shown by the MiG-25 being capable of 3.2 without anything unusual.
The cones on the SR-71 were there to take the '71 past what a turbojet engine can do. Read what you just posted. It bypassed the engine and went straight to the afterburners. Engineers solved the ramjet problem in the 50's man, they just stuck a jet engine in the middle of it. The maximum speed wasn't limited by the compression as quoted, it was INCREASED by it. Do you really think that the official documentation is going to say "Oh yeah we designed the engine to surpass mach 3 by a long shot"? No, because the official top speed is classified.
Now, you said name 3, and I'm going to name a plane that the SR-71 has more technology in common with than anything I've mentioned:
As an experimental plane it used heat treating with a nickel alloy to handle the speeds. How fast you say? Mach 6.72. This is the only plane I've mentioned that had to had heat treating for the fuselage like the '71 did, and it went Mach 6+
So, before you call my theory about the top speed of the '71/nonsense/ do your homework instead of just quoting from wikipedia and going "see! it says so!"
Actually, the U2 can't be replaced so easily. Yes, they could *make* one but it took a huge team to make the U2 work, and Kelly Johnson was no dummy with its design. The problem is that you have to justify spending the time and money and materials to make a new one that works so much better that its worth the expenditure.
Oh, and the SR-71 was engineered for somewhere around Mach 5 or 6. Its stated top speed was Mach 3, but lots of planes can do Mach 3, and they don't need all the fancy stuff the '71 did. And, I talked to a retired traffic controller who once saw a '71 light up a civilian transponder so traffic could be vectored around it (it had an emergency apparently), they clocked it around 4000mph. Kelly Johnson wouldn't authorize the throttles to be opened full, he wasn't sure what would happen. Some neat stuff about the blackbird.
Its religious, always has been, its just got nothing to do with Christianity. It was brought in by Constantine to try to unify his empire. It worked. Christmas goes back to ancient Babylonian fertility rituals, of which the evergreen tree is a huge part. So if they want to complain about the religion, fine. Just don't call it Christianity.
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Number 1 answer: dogpile.com
Its funny, but its objective. They've avoided anti-trust by giving a genuine ranked answer. Apple, cowards that they are, just avoided the question altogether.
If I googled "best search engine" and google came back with "Wait, there's other search engines?" I would laugh, and then think them idiots.
"Moving nuclear materials. The usual."
Indeed, my best pan is a 9" cast iron skillet that is about 150 years old, and that's no exaggeration. Its not as non stick as teflon is, but its pretty damned good. Came over on a wagon train.
I have a client who runs a sign making business. Their CNC machine is run off an old PC or XT with a few hundred 5.25" floppies for fonts etc. Works fine, they still use it every day.
Newer != better.
Ironically, if you use Google.com to search for "search engine", the first thing it takes you to is Dogpile.com.
Proof:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=search+engine&l=1
Hole in one, guaranteed!
Please replace sinkho^H^H^H^H^H divots
Everything but the kitchen sinking!
"Oh No! Rory's intestines are hanging out, and a little kids are sneezing all over it! Johnson, grab me the torch! No, the OTHER one!"
I had a friend who couldn't stop calling it "computer serve" instead of "Compuserve." But oh well.
I started personally in 1990 or 1991 with Prodigy- DXTH23B, here. It was on a 286/12 with 1MB RAM and an incredibly big 60MB hard drive. I even had VGA! I installed the modem myself, at 14 years old. I was so nervous because I didn't want to break our computer, that I was shaking! I got the modem in and then learned about IRQ's and COM ports. Those were the days! I remember being so excited when I could message my friends who used AOL and it didn't cost extra.
I remember being a young teenager asking a million questions about computers etc and getting great, solid answers. The SNR was much better back then.
Eventually I moved to AOL and BBS'ing. I was the first in my area to have 28.8kbps. I got them before they were released to the public through a friend who ran a warez bbs. The price was amazing, and in retrospect it probably fell off the back of a truck.
I even had a BBS of my own for about a week. I had my 486 all set up on Renegade IIRC. I even got the newspaper to print the number in the "technology" page on Mondays. And, they printed the wrong number. One person figured it out and called in. I gave up on BBS's, the Internet was taking off and I haven't looked back.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
All that being said, I work for a virtual call center at home doing tech support for n00bs and the like and I really like it.
Actually this has been in the works for a while, this isn't the first mention of such a game. I do not believe this is a slooF lirpA article.
I wish I could mod that up, its actually a pretty decent solution with lots of potential for win.
This has actually happened multiple times. Neighbor looks at CP using your open wifi, FBI raids YOUR house and ousts YOUR family from your home.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/fbi-child-porn-raid-a-strong-argument-for-locking-down-wifi-networks.ars
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/28039374/detail.html
Sorry, but I live in Reno (Nevada) where we are home to some of the worst drivers I have ever seen. I learned to drive in southern California, and I felt perfectly safe with half a car length between a string of 10 cars doing 90mph on the fast lane. Here, I don't feel safe driving the freeway at 65mph because there are still people who are doing 45mph on the freeway!
On top of that people run red lights constantly hear, which isn't so bad really if there's consistency, but there is NOT. Driving here can be downright scary sometimes.
So bring on the auto-automobile, I'm all for it.
"JWoww" - is an advertising server, makes lots of noise but generally pretty lame content.
"The.Situtaion" -- has a flashy case with lots of bright LED fans but really doesn't have a lot of CPU.
"Snooki" -- This server goes down a lot
I didn't know what it was, I don't follow supercomputing very closely. I looked it up. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exascale_computing
"Exascale computing refers to computing capabilities beyond the currently existing petascale. If achieved, it would represent a thousandfold increase over that scale."
To define Petascale:
"In computing, petascale refers to a computer system capable of reaching performance in excess of one petaflops, i.e. one quadrillion floating point operations per second." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petascale
A Petascale computer, the Cray XT5 Jaguar can do 1.75 petaflops. To reach an exaflop, it would require almost 6000 installations of this supercomputer.
So yeah, Exaflop is pretty big. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(computing)
That's the very first thing I thought, too!
This in a country that has actually had Land Sharks.
Was the one linked to it after it was done. "Nipplecopter!"
Gonna have that damned song stuck in my head all day now...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XB-70_Valkyrie
Quote: "Designed by North American Aviation in the late 1950s, the Valkyrie was a large six-engined aircraft able to fly Mach 3+ at an altitude of 70,000 feet"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25
Quote: "The MiG-25 was theoretically capable of a maximum speed of Mach 3+ and a ceiling of 90,000 ft (27,000 m). Its high speed was problematic: although sufficient thrust was available to reach Mach 3.2, a limit of Mach 2.8 had to be imposed as the turbines tended to overspeed and overheat at higher speeds, possibly damaging them beyond repair"
Mig 25's couldn't handle doing Mach 3 for very long because their engines were made for unmanned drones, not because the airframe couldn't handle it.
What you quote from wikipedia about the SR-71 is what we are TOLD about it. The reality is that the friction heating at Mach 3+ is not a huge hurdle. The XB-70 had no extensive provisions for it. If you read more about the '71 you'll find out about the great lengths that the engineers went to to keep the skin of the aircraft and its internal systems cool- none of those are needed at Mach 3 or even 3.2, as shown by the MiG-25 being capable of 3.2 without anything unusual.
The cones on the SR-71 were there to take the '71 past what a turbojet engine can do. Read what you just posted. It bypassed the engine and went straight to the afterburners. Engineers solved the ramjet problem in the 50's man, they just stuck a jet engine in the middle of it. The maximum speed wasn't limited by the compression as quoted, it was INCREASED by it. Do you really think that the official documentation is going to say "Oh yeah we designed the engine to surpass mach 3 by a long shot"? No, because the official top speed is classified.
Now, you said name 3, and I'm going to name a plane that the SR-71 has more technology in common with than anything I've mentioned:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15
As an experimental plane it used heat treating with a nickel alloy to handle the speeds. How fast you say? Mach 6.72. This is the only plane I've mentioned that had to had heat treating for the fuselage like the '71 did, and it went Mach 6+
So, before you call my theory about the top speed of the '71 /nonsense/ do your homework instead of just quoting from wikipedia and going "see! it says so!"
Actually, the U2 can't be replaced so easily. Yes, they could *make* one but it took a huge team to make the U2 work, and Kelly Johnson was no dummy with its design. The problem is that you have to justify spending the time and money and materials to make a new one that works so much better that its worth the expenditure.
Oh, and the SR-71 was engineered for somewhere around Mach 5 or 6. Its stated top speed was Mach 3, but lots of planes can do Mach 3, and they don't need all the fancy stuff the '71 did. And, I talked to a retired traffic controller who once saw a '71 light up a civilian transponder so traffic could be vectored around it (it had an emergency apparently), they clocked it around 4000mph. Kelly Johnson wouldn't authorize the throttles to be opened full, he wasn't sure what would happen. Some neat stuff about the blackbird.
I'm glad I'm not a tech living in that area. I can imagine the calls. "My new Dell won't get on the Super WiFi, it says it has WiFi!"
One more way to muddy the waters, nice job FCC. As it is I get calls from people wanting to get help hooking their new wireless mouse up to WiFi.
You probably can't get much more detail than that; the detail doesn't exist.
You just have to Zoom, then Enhance.
Yes, and they suck. BTDT. I just got a VPS at myhosting.com, so far so good. More costly, but you get what you pay for!
Its religious, always has been, its just got nothing to do with Christianity. It was brought in by Constantine to try to unify his empire. It worked. Christmas goes back to ancient Babylonian fertility rituals, of which the evergreen tree is a huge part. So if they want to complain about the religion, fine. Just don't call it Christianity.
Wow the article that OP linked to is amazing! The only problem with it is that there were not enough exclamation marks! Needs more exclamation marks!