Generally, no. The cache maintains a _copy_ of recently accessed main memory. Logically it is not a seperate memory space, rather it shows up as certain memory locations being faster than others when you access them. The upshot is that you still need at least as much main memory as cache space to actually use the chace.
Has ISDN improved in the past three or four years? Last time I looked at it (back in school), it was:
Ruinously expensive: I think the basic install was around $400, plus a $120 month service charge, plus $1/mb, plus $.25/min. Seriously, I couldn't think of any compelling reason for it to cost this freaking much, but it did. And that was the 64kbps ISDN link, which was barely better than my $10/month modem. I don't even remember if that included the ISP cost or not.
Slow: Not much faster than a modem for the lowest tier service, and still well below even low end DSL for the "fast" service (256/256 was the max at the time IIRC).
Dialup: The ISDN "modem" had to dial up whenever you wanted to connect. Granted, it only takes a second or two to dial up, but it means you cannot access your machine remotely.
Naturally I kept my POTS dialup connection and just suffered with sharing a single modem between 4 guys (and getting nasty letters from the ISP about our monthly time usage).
Those satellite terminals you see over the cabs of about half of the big rigs in the US are made by Omnitrax, and they are no good for web browsing (one 1500 byte packet every 15 minutes or so, plus the service is pretty expensive for what you get).
You might want to try one of the other satellites, or double checking how accurately you pointed the dish. I was one of the first people to get DirecTV, and I think it's gone out due to weather maybe a dozen times since I've had it (in West Virginia). It's probably harder to get a good signal in someplace like the Northwest Territories (more atmosphere to go through), but I think you should be able to get a good signal if you take your time and aim the dish correctly. Also, avoid pointing at satellites behind trees/mountains/homes, as the high frequencies used by DirectTV tend to be line of sight only.
Wait, we exausted the diplomatic options before invading Iraq? I don't think issuing ultimatums counts. As far as American security interests are concerned, all I've seen are tenuous links to terrorism (some terrorists have been known to live in Iraq for part of their lives) and nonexistant weapons of mass destruction. Their army was reduced to a shell of it's former self and the food for oil dollars that Saddam was funnelling over to the military apparently wasn't enough to even keep them properly equipped.
If you call a man who sticks his head in a hole (look up the Geonocide in Rowanda - 200,000 dead, only an appology note from Clinton) while he recieves, ahem, generous contributions in the Oval Office a great presidency I'm rather worried for you.
By this definition, there has never been a great president. Wars and blood feuds have been going on for all of recorded histroy. It is just not feasable for the "big brother" nations to intervene with every brush war. Worse, even if we do intervene, there is no guarentee that we can make the situation any better. Look at Iraq, they're free of a brutal dictator only to be immediatly manuvered by foreign agents into (what will probably become) a brutal theocracy hell bent on breeding more terrorists to keep the region unstable. At least we can lift the sanctions and raise the standard of living (one of the best defenses against terrorist recruitment).
Being in Hong Kong, CD-WOW doesn't strictly have to play by the UK's rules and can, in theory, charge whatever they want for the media they are selling.
Is this another way of saying CD-WOW is a bunch of bootleggers? Being from Hong Kong, that would not be a surprise at all. If that is the case, I'm surprised that BPI even allows them in the country to start with. You should see the mess people get into over here in the States with bootlegs.
Interestingly, Scientific American had an article on sleep a few months ago that suggested both REM and non-REM sleep were essental to various brain functions. Trying to force yourself into REM-only sleep might not be such a wise idea as you would only be regenerating half of the necessary brain chemestry in the long run.
The basic problem is that the shuttle cannot reach the L2 point. It doesn't carry enough fuel. To launch something there, it has to do another burn after being released from the shuttle to achieve the correct orbit. If we can't get the shuttle there, then we (the US) can't send people there (currently). I've never heard of a repair mission carried out with robots, but I suppose it is possible (although they're plenty difficult with people, so I wonder about the feasability of using robots).
It's true! A guy in a tin foil hat told me. No matter where you go, they can watch you through their satellites. Even inside. They need that kind of accuracy to target the mind control rays.
How many 486's had PCI slots? I don't think I've ever run into a single one. I'me also hard pressed to find ATA/133 ISA cards (for good reason). Granted, the old Mac the parent was referring to only has SCSI-I, but it'd probably still be easier to get working than that old 486. Doubly so if the 486 BIOS required you to manually enter the CHS specs of the drive.
I think he's referring to the whole mission, which includes the orbiter that is still going strong. Still, loss of the lander makes the whole thing seem like a 5 yard gain.
Fortunatly for NASA, the rocks aren't going anywhere. This reminds me of one guy who built a digital camera out of an old flatbed scanner. It took several seconds to take a shot, and one of the shots he had was of his garage door...while it was opening and closing. The door ended up looking triangular in his shot.
Although the TiVo can be difficult for some people to set up, I've never met anybody who had trouble using the interface. Some people don't use most of the features, but they can watch TV and tell TiVo to record their favorite shows.
I'll agree with this. I bought a DC3400 ages ago (it was on a blowout sale on an already cheap camera). I love it. The thing is bigger and heavier than most cameras in it's class, but it's very sturdy and easy to use. It's certainly not going to win any awards in professional circles (the on board processor seems rather slow for one, it's easy to get ahead of it if you shoot more than 2 or three pictures at a time, then you're waiting for the stupid blinking light to stop), but even my Mom has no trouble using it. The menu system is intutive, although rather slow, and the thumbwheel selector is about the nicest widget I've ever seen on a camera. The Canon Elph I eventually bought for my parents is far more difficult to use in comparison. My friend's Olympus C-5050z is a nightmare in comparison. Still, I plan on giving away my Kodak and getting the Olympus C-5060 because it offers so many features I don't get on my camera, including some that I'd really like to have (like a Macro mode that doesn't suck).
Yup, just take a look at those photos of Mars that we were all ooohing and aahing over.. those were digital photos taken by a professional.
Those pictures were taken by more than a professional, they were taken by a professional robot. That said, nobody was oohing and aahing over the quality of the picture itself. You can get better pictures with most consumer digital cameras (although not on Mars), rather they were oohing the fact that those pictures came from a different planet and were better than the ones we got in the 70s.
You need to introduce your friends to TiVo. It lets you do thing when you want to, yet still see your favorite shows. Sounds to me like TiVo would be a complete lifestyle changer for your friends, probably for the better.
He's probably living in an area where "efficency" (rat hole) apartments are $1200 a month. The poverty level really depends on the cost of living in your area.
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Then they'll just have to do it at night.
Generally, no. The cache maintains a _copy_ of recently accessed main memory. Logically it is not a seperate memory space, rather it shows up as certain memory locations being faster than others when you access them. The upshot is that you still need at least as much main memory as cache space to actually use the chace.
- Ruinously expensive: I think the basic install was around $400, plus a $120 month service charge, plus $1/mb, plus $.25/min. Seriously, I couldn't think of any compelling reason for it to cost this freaking much, but it did. And that was the 64kbps ISDN link, which was barely better than my $10/month modem. I don't even remember if that included the ISP cost or not.
- Slow: Not much faster than a modem for the lowest tier service, and still well below even low end DSL for the "fast" service (256/256 was the max at the time IIRC).
- Dialup: The ISDN "modem" had to dial up whenever you wanted to connect. Granted, it only takes a second or two to dial up, but it means you cannot access your machine remotely.
Naturally I kept my POTS dialup connection and just suffered with sharing a single modem between 4 guys (and getting nasty letters from the ISP about our monthly time usage).Those satellite terminals you see over the cabs of about half of the big rigs in the US are made by Omnitrax, and they are no good for web browsing (one 1500 byte packet every 15 minutes or so, plus the service is pretty expensive for what you get).
You might want to try one of the other satellites, or double checking how accurately you pointed the dish. I was one of the first people to get DirecTV, and I think it's gone out due to weather maybe a dozen times since I've had it (in West Virginia). It's probably harder to get a good signal in someplace like the Northwest Territories (more atmosphere to go through), but I think you should be able to get a good signal if you take your time and aim the dish correctly. Also, avoid pointing at satellites behind trees/mountains/homes, as the high frequencies used by DirectTV tend to be line of sight only.
Are you using a rar program from 1995? I don't think I've ever run across a rar archive I couldn't open with plain vanilla RAR.
Wait, we exausted the diplomatic options before invading Iraq? I don't think issuing ultimatums counts. As far as American security interests are concerned, all I've seen are tenuous links to terrorism (some terrorists have been known to live in Iraq for part of their lives) and nonexistant weapons of mass destruction. Their army was reduced to a shell of it's former self and the food for oil dollars that Saddam was funnelling over to the military apparently wasn't enough to even keep them properly equipped.
Interestingly, Scientific American had an article on sleep a few months ago that suggested both REM and non-REM sleep were essental to various brain functions. Trying to force yourself into REM-only sleep might not be such a wise idea as you would only be regenerating half of the necessary brain chemestry in the long run.
The basic problem is that the shuttle cannot reach the L2 point. It doesn't carry enough fuel. To launch something there, it has to do another burn after being released from the shuttle to achieve the correct orbit. If we can't get the shuttle there, then we (the US) can't send people there (currently). I've never heard of a repair mission carried out with robots, but I suppose it is possible (although they're plenty difficult with people, so I wonder about the feasability of using robots).
It's true! A guy in a tin foil hat told me. No matter where you go, they can watch you through their satellites. Even inside. They need that kind of accuracy to target the mind control rays.
Woosh! That sound you just heard was the joke flying overhead.
How many 486's had PCI slots? I don't think I've ever run into a single one. I'me also hard pressed to find ATA/133 ISA cards (for good reason). Granted, the old Mac the parent was referring to only has SCSI-I, but it'd probably still be easier to get working than that old 486. Doubly so if the 486 BIOS required you to manually enter the CHS specs of the drive.
I don't know. Women like these creative types. They're far more interesting than the guys who just sit around Slashdot mocking the artist.
Wouldn't that merely tip the teacher off that you're up to something? Besides, why not just do your own work and try to learn something?
I think he's referring to the whole mission, which includes the orbiter that is still going strong. Still, loss of the lander makes the whole thing seem like a 5 yard gain.
Depends how they die. Explosive decompression doesn't give you time to be lonely.
Fortunatly for NASA, the rocks aren't going anywhere. This reminds me of one guy who built a digital camera out of an old flatbed scanner. It took several seconds to take a shot, and one of the shots he had was of his garage door...while it was opening and closing. The door ended up looking triangular in his shot.
Although the TiVo can be difficult for some people to set up, I've never met anybody who had trouble using the interface. Some people don't use most of the features, but they can watch TV and tell TiVo to record their favorite shows.
I'll agree with this. I bought a DC3400 ages ago (it was on a blowout sale on an already cheap camera). I love it. The thing is bigger and heavier than most cameras in it's class, but it's very sturdy and easy to use. It's certainly not going to win any awards in professional circles (the on board processor seems rather slow for one, it's easy to get ahead of it if you shoot more than 2 or three pictures at a time, then you're waiting for the stupid blinking light to stop), but even my Mom has no trouble using it. The menu system is intutive, although rather slow, and the thumbwheel selector is about the nicest widget I've ever seen on a camera. The Canon Elph I eventually bought for my parents is far more difficult to use in comparison. My friend's Olympus C-5050z is a nightmare in comparison. Still, I plan on giving away my Kodak and getting the Olympus C-5060 because it offers so many features I don't get on my camera, including some that I'd really like to have (like a Macro mode that doesn't suck).
You need to introduce your friends to TiVo. It lets you do thing when you want to, yet still see your favorite shows. Sounds to me like TiVo would be a complete lifestyle changer for your friends, probably for the better.
He's probably living in an area where "efficency" (rat hole) apartments are $1200 a month. The poverty level really depends on the cost of living in your area.