Some laptops such as Sony Vaio PCG_GRT don't have floppy disk drives, nor do they have USB boot capability. The only way of OS update is via DVD or CD.
I remember there was this trick with some 8-bit computers. There was a special cold-boot mode, where if you held down some keys on the keyboard during power-on, system memory wouldn't be cleared. You could see that RAM memory did partially retain its state between power-on and offs.
These days, the disk controller for the disk drive is logically tied to the hard disk drive platter itself, by an encryption key. If you tried swapping round the controllers to repair the disk drive, that wouldn't work as the encryption keys are different. You wouldn't even get the disk information sector back.
A tall tree could have been cut to size to make a battering ram, or two. Perhap the Romans would examine the wood to determine the strongest parts; matching grain and branch knots.
Some mobile phones can be plugged into the USB port (ZTE), emulate a USB file system and will use the auto-run feature to change the network routing tables so that all data traffic is routed through the phone.
At least for a Windows PC. With linux it just seems to slow down if not block the wi-fi service altogether.
Sun Microsystems once embedded a Windows PC into their workstations, just so that CAD engineers could read their E-mail from Microsoft Exchange and other apps. It would open up as a seperate window.
VMware does the same - using virtualization, you can run Windows XP on a Linux distribution.
Maybe the PC is a laptop that has a high resolution screen (1280x1024 upwards) but a slow or old GPU. This would seem a great way of upgrading the latter. The price is going to be the big issue, with the upper limit being the price of a new graphics card or desktop PC. A new gaming PC is around 600 pounds, while a new laptop is around 1200 pounds.
Germans would even cut down trees if they happened to form a swastika pattern.
Saudi's once demolished a hospital because it was arranged in a crucifix shape. Anything related to the promotion of Christianity there would be banned.
3D tic-tac-toe was popular with our family. But it was the table board version rather than a computer game. Four glass planes stacked above each other, with marbles of different colour, with enough for three players. Similar to http://www.sircollectalot.co.uk/images/uploads/space_linessmall.jpg">"Space Lines" in the UK.
I'm guessing there would have to be glue logic to get all these processors to share the memory space as well as read/write access. From the promotional pictures of other multi-core chip dies, each core is usually surrounded by a band of interface logic as well as a hefty large block of cache memory. That seems to be the biggest change in the evolution of CPU's. It seems easier to just create larger caches or more cores than anything low level.
Maybe they accept one or more non-functional cores in exchange for increased yields. Those cores that don't function correctly could simply be disabled.
From previous Gamasutra articles, the original paper had a bug in the algorithm described (deliberate error?) related to when the observer was already in a shadow volume. Creative Labs filed or bought out the patent on the correct version of the algorithm.
The next commercial entity to use the correct algorithm gets bushwhacked with the patent.
These days, supercomputers can just create virtual network topologies, simply by using clever addressing schemes. You just need to store the address of the node you reach going in every possible direction. Use some clever bit encoding like using several bits for each dimension, and it's just a matter of determining which bits are different.
Usually it seems to be the configuration scripts of the system that is the problem. There isn't any need to bury bugs in source code. Think of every network based application a system may have and how many configuration files each of these has; ssh, sftp, mail-servers/clients, file-sharers, networked file systems. It only takes one to have an easy to guess password and user account or open permissions.
You just need to sugarspeak dangerous safety options in the official (or unofficial) webpage.
"If you want to access your files, movies or TV recordings from anywhere in the world without the hassle of having to enter a password, just set the default directory to/, and set read permissions to everyone. Now you can access your files any time you like. No need to send usernames or passwords across the network". If you want to upload files as well, set permissions to read and write."
They just want to make that when oil becomes unaffordable to the masses, they'll still have a revenue stream and rename themselves as "energy companies" rather than "oil companies".
There was one made some time ago (1996?) The visual effects were quality as they would be, but having The Master just spitting at people like the lizards in V didn't really fit into his character.
Shepperton Studios in London did do Dr Who movies in the 1960's. Dr Who and the Daleks take the battle to Skaro, and Daleks: Invasion Earth with London having been taken over, and robotoizing the local population in 2150.
Perhaps they should try doing something simple like updating one of the series stories like "The Seeds of Doom". That one had people making contact with seed pods and being turning into walking pod-releasing trees in an Aliens/The Thing style.
In 1971, an Intel 4004 had 2300 transistors, on a die size 12mm square (144mm^2).
In 2011, an Intel i7 had 560,000,000 transistors on a die size 296mm^2
Going by those dimensions, you could get 24378 4004's into the die size of an i7. Or the i7 mockup would be 24000 times the area of the 4004 mockup. If you were to build the i7 with the same brass and copper technology as a Diffference Engine, it would probably fill Manhattan.
For comparison, an Intel 80386 had 275000 transistors, and an 80486 had 1,180,000 transistors.
For those CPU's, you could get 2000 80386's into the die size of an i7, and 474+ 80486's into the same die size.
I'd guess in reality that would be less because you would need cache management for all those processors.
It's known as "Systems-On-A-Chip". If you were to make the system out of standalone ASIC's it would be the size of a laptop or netbook. Put all the transistor logic like CPU cores microcontrollers, codecs, and hardware interface logic onto a single chip, add a small screen, you get a smartphone.
Unlike a PC, specific parts of the chip only get power when they are used. Less power is needed because there aren't any long distance interconnects between ASIC chips. All of those help to keep things cool.
On my old Intel laptop, just about everything from E-mail to web browsers and text editors can run without the CPU going over 60C. As soon as any floating-point calculations take place, temperature goes up to 90C+ After 95C, the laptop shuts down.
And it had the cheek not to apply for planning permission, provide an environmental impact study or seek internaional partners for the venture. The land should be confiscated and put under control of an international supervisory body until ownership rights can be established.
The universities justify the hefty fees because of the hefty salaries people like doctors earn. The doctors justify the hefty salaries because of the responsibility for other peoples lives and the many years of expensive education they had to go through.
I've seen it for myself - some kids were out at the bus stop - the youngest one asks, "can you catch a snowflake?", which was a fairly bright question to ask. The other kids just tied his scarf tight and pulled his hood over his head.
Core temperature is driven by pressure from the gravitational attraction of every atom on and around Earth. This causes enough heating to make the mantle to become liquid. The mantle itself is liquid sodium which conducts electricity. The core itself is mostly iron/nickel and is under such high pressure it remains a solid (Clausius Clapeyron relation
At the Earth's core, pressure is around 330 - 360 gigapascals, 330 million times atmospheric pressure. Deep Water accident was only 120,000 times atmospheric pressure. There isn't any danger of the core cooling down.
The effect of convection currents and the Earth's spin forces the liquid mantle to start rotating which in turn causes magnetic fields to form. This was the subject of a scientific experiment.
The idea is that these individual rotating eddies can at times reinforce each other to form a strong dipole system as we have now, and at other times cancel out or form a weak multipole system, which would last until a new strong dipole system formed.
There are other theories that different layers of the Earth rotate at different speeds, having other electromagnetic effects on the Earth.
Blacks seems to fill the working-class / underclass areas in London. They displaced the whites in the same financial/education level to outside of London.
Knew plenty of white kids where there was anti-education attitude, where being smart and getting good grades was "sookie"or "soft". Those kids ended up spending their years at school clowning around and leaving at 16.
I had Virgin broadband - 50 Mbits - for working at home and downloading like PDF documents it was a dream. The download speed was faster than my university network, as I could regularly get 300K/second at home, but only 25K/second at work.
The data caps were a pain though - the largest files I would ever download were live Linux DVD's at 4 Gigabyte each. The first half of the download would be superfast, then the throttling would kick in, and the download would slow down to 6 or 9 hours.
I always thought it would have been more data efficient for Virgin to cache these files, as they are checksummed.
I contemplated upgrading to a higher speed, but it wasn't really noticable. For small files, it took longer to open them document than to download. For larger files, the data caps and throttling kicked in. It really wasn't justifiable to spend an extra 40 pounds/month just for some extra downloading once or twice a month.
Having my local IP address range blocked as part of some academic IP address list was annoying, forcing me to use Virgin's official e-mail server.
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Some laptops such as Sony Vaio PCG_GRT don't have floppy disk drives, nor do they have USB boot capability. The only way of OS update is via DVD or CD.
I remember there was this trick with some 8-bit computers. There was a special cold-boot mode, where if you held down some keys on the keyboard during power-on, system memory wouldn't be cleared. You could see that RAM memory did partially retain its state between power-on and offs.
These days, the disk controller for the disk drive is logically tied to the hard disk drive platter itself, by an encryption key. If you tried swapping round the controllers to repair the disk drive, that wouldn't work as the encryption keys are different.
You wouldn't even get the disk information sector back.
A tall tree could have been cut to size to make a battering ram, or two. Perhap the Romans would examine the wood to determine the strongest parts; matching grain and branch knots.
Some mobile phones can be plugged into the USB port (ZTE), emulate a USB file system and will use the auto-run feature to change the network routing tables so that all data traffic is routed through the phone.
At least for a Windows PC. With linux it just seems to slow down if not block the wi-fi service altogether.
Sun Microsystems once embedded a Windows PC into their workstations, just so that CAD engineers could read their E-mail from Microsoft Exchange and other apps. It would open up as a seperate window.
VMware does the same - using virtualization, you can run Windows XP on a Linux distribution.
Maybe the PC is a laptop that has a high resolution screen (1280x1024 upwards) but a slow or old GPU. This would seem a great way of upgrading the latter.
The price is going to be the big issue, with the upper limit being the price of a new graphics card or desktop PC. A new gaming PC is around 600 pounds, while a new laptop is around 1200 pounds.
Germans would even cut down trees if they happened to form a swastika pattern.
Saudi's once demolished a hospital because it was arranged in a crucifix shape. Anything related to the promotion of Christianity there would be banned.
3D tic-tac-toe was popular with our family. But it was the table board version rather than a computer game. Four glass planes stacked above each other, with marbles of different colour, with enough for three players. Similar to http://www.sircollectalot.co.uk/images/uploads/space_linessmall.jpg">"Space Lines" in the UK.
I'm guessing there would have to be glue logic to get all these processors to share the memory space as well as read/write access. From the promotional pictures of other multi-core chip dies, each core is usually surrounded by a band of interface logic as well as a hefty large block of cache memory. That seems to be the biggest change in the evolution of CPU's. It seems easier to just create larger caches or more cores than anything low level.
Maybe they accept one or more non-functional cores in exchange for increased yields. Those cores that don't function correctly could simply be disabled.
From previous Gamasutra articles, the original paper had a bug in the algorithm described (deliberate error?) related to when the observer was already in a shadow volume. Creative Labs filed or bought out the patent on the correct version of the algorithm.
The next commercial entity to use the correct algorithm gets bushwhacked with the patent.
These days, supercomputers can just create virtual network topologies, simply by using clever addressing schemes. You just need to store the address of the node you reach going in every possible direction. Use some clever bit encoding like using several bits for each dimension, and it's just a matter of determining which bits are different.
Usually it seems to be the configuration scripts of the system that is the problem. There isn't any need to bury bugs in source code. Think of every network based application a system may have and how many configuration files each of these has; ssh, sftp, mail-servers/clients, file-sharers, networked file systems. It only takes one to have an easy to guess password and user account or open permissions.
You just need to sugarspeak dangerous safety options in the official (or unofficial) webpage.
"If you want to access your files, movies or TV recordings from anywhere in the world without the hassle of having to enter a password, just set the default directory to /, and set read permissions to everyone. Now you can access your files any time you like. No need to send usernames or passwords across the network". If you want to upload files as well, set permissions to read and write."
They just want to make that when oil becomes unaffordable to the masses, they'll still have a revenue stream and rename themselves as "energy companies" rather than "oil companies".
It's probably more a case of "every other movie has these effects included, so we have to do the same".
So they end up trying to weave a plot line around a fixed set of visual effects current at the time.
There was one made some time ago (1996?) The visual effects were quality as they would be, but having The Master just spitting at people like the lizards in V didn't really fit into his character.
Shepperton Studios in London did do Dr Who movies in the 1960's. Dr Who and the Daleks take the battle to Skaro, and Daleks: Invasion Earth with London having been taken over, and robotoizing the local population in 2150.
Perhaps they should try doing something simple like updating one of the series stories like "The Seeds of Doom". That one had people making contact with seed pods and being turning into walking pod-releasing trees in an Aliens/The Thing style.
In 1971, an Intel 4004 had 2300 transistors, on a die size 12mm square (144mm^2).
In 2011, an Intel i7 had 560,000,000 transistors on a die size 296mm^2
Going by those dimensions, you could get 24378 4004's into the die size of an i7. Or the i7 mockup would be 24000 times the area of the 4004 mockup. If you were to build the i7 with the same brass and copper technology as a Diffference Engine, it would probably fill Manhattan.
For comparison, an Intel 80386 had 275000 transistors, and an 80486 had 1,180,000 transistors.
For those CPU's, you could get 2000 80386's into the die size of an i7, and 474+ 80486's into the same die size.
I'd guess in reality that would be less because you would need cache management for all those processors.
It's known as "Systems-On-A-Chip". If you were to make the system out of standalone ASIC's it would be the size of a laptop or netbook. Put all the transistor logic like CPU cores microcontrollers, codecs, and hardware interface logic onto a single chip, add a small screen, you get a smartphone.
Unlike a PC, specific parts of the chip only get power when they are used. Less power is needed because there aren't any long distance interconnects between ASIC chips. All of those help to keep things cool.
On my old Intel laptop, just about everything from E-mail to web browsers and text editors can run without the CPU going over 60C. As soon as any floating-point calculations take place, temperature goes up to 90C+
After 95C, the laptop shuts down.
And it had the cheek not to apply for planning permission, provide an environmental impact study or seek internaional partners for the venture. The land should be confiscated and put under control of an international supervisory body until ownership rights can be established.
The universities justify the hefty fees because of the hefty salaries people like doctors earn. The doctors justify the hefty salaries because of the responsibility for other peoples lives and the many years of expensive education they had to go through.
I've seen it for myself - some kids were out at the bus stop - the youngest one asks, "can you catch a snowflake?", which was a fairly bright question to ask. The other kids just tied his scarf tight and pulled his hood over his head.
Core temperature is driven by pressure from the gravitational attraction of every atom on and around Earth. This causes enough heating to make the mantle to become liquid. The mantle itself is liquid sodium which conducts electricity. The core itself is mostly iron/nickel and is under such high pressure it remains a solid (Clausius Clapeyron relation
At the Earth's core, pressure is around 330 - 360 gigapascals, 330 million times atmospheric pressure.
Deep Water accident was only 120,000 times atmospheric pressure. There isn't any danger of the core cooling down.
The effect of convection currents and the Earth's spin forces the liquid mantle to start rotating which in turn causes magnetic fields to form. This was the subject of a scientific experiment.
The idea is that these individual rotating eddies can at times reinforce each other to form a strong dipole system as we have now, and at other times cancel out or form a weak multipole system, which would last until a new strong dipole system formed.
There are other theories that different layers of the Earth rotate at different speeds, having other electromagnetic effects on the Earth.
Blacks seems to fill the working-class / underclass areas in London. They displaced the whites in the same financial/education level to outside of London.
Knew plenty of white kids where there was anti-education attitude, where being smart and getting good grades was "sookie"or "soft". Those kids ended up spending their years at school clowning around and leaving at 16.
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Well, my downloads definitely slowed down. Could never figure out if it was the host server, the inbetween network or Virgin's cable network.
I had Virgin broadband - 50 Mbits - for working at home and downloading like PDF documents it was a dream. The download speed was faster than my university network, as I could regularly get 300K/second at home, but only 25K/second at work.
The data caps were a pain though - the largest files I would ever download were live Linux DVD's at 4 Gigabyte each. The first half of the download would be superfast, then the throttling would kick in, and the download would slow down to 6 or 9 hours.
I always thought it would have been more data efficient for Virgin to cache these files, as they are checksummed.
I contemplated upgrading to a higher speed, but it wasn't really noticable. For small files, it took longer to open them document than to download. For larger files, the data caps and throttling kicked in. It really wasn't justifiable to spend an extra 40 pounds/month just for some extra downloading once or twice a month.
Having my local IP address range blocked as part of some academic IP address list was annoying, forcing me to use Virgin's official e-mail server.