What we know as temperature is actually a measure of the average kenetic energy of all the molecules in our sample, in other words its a measure of average speed.
What a billion degrees means is the molecules are moving very fast, however because there are so few of them the total effect is minimal.
Maybe, but I would open the door for some real competition. How many people would chose $20 IE vs free Netscape or similarly priced opera. If Microsoft doesn't offer these addons for close to nothing people will migrate to other solutions. That is absolutly the last thing Microsoft wants.
To view the Flightship website we recommend a browser version 4.0 or higher. Updating your system will allow you to fully enjoy all the content on the Flightship website.
I use opera 6.0, evidently they think that 6 is less than 4. Why do I suddenly have doubts about thier engineering skills.
20 years ago in Quebec they had a system in which you could PLAY pong against a random opponent by on by tuning into a special tv channel and using a touch tone phone. It was really hard to get into because there was only one channel and lots of busy signals.
Following is a slightly edited summary of the details of the case taken from the actual judgement:
The respondent, a painter who enjoys a well-established international reputation, assigned by contract the right to publish reproductions, cards and other stationery products representing certain of his works to a publisher. The appellant art galleries purchased cards, photolithographs and posters embodying various of the artist's works from the publisher, and then transferred the image to canvas. The process in issue here involves lifting the ink that was used in printing a paper poster and transferring it onto a canvas. Since this process leaves the poster blank, there is no increase in the total number of reproductions. The respondent applied for an injunction, accounting, and damages against the appellants in the Quebec Superior Court. He also obtained a writ of seizure before judgment,
[Boring bits removed]
The appellants applied to have the seizure quashed. The [Quebec] Superior Court concluded that transferring an authorized paper reproduction onto canvas did not amount to infringement within the meaning of the C[opyright] A[ct], and ordered that the seizure be quashed. The [Quebec] Court of Appeal, finding that there had been infringement, set aside that decision and uphold the seizure before judgment with respect to the canvas-backed reproductions.
[More boring bits removed]
Whether a fuller record adduced at trial will demonstrate a breach of economic rights or moral rights will be for the trial judge to determine. At this stage, we [the Canadian Supreme Court] need to decide only that the interlocutory record did not justify the seizure before judgment.
IANAL but it may be that the ruling is not as broad as I (and the slashdot commumity) might like.
I have trouble beleiving that those large portholes (aprox 6' dia) depicted on the interior view can handle the 1000' rated depth. Total pressure is almost about 1.8 million lbs.
Thats a lot for any transparent material, I don't have my engineering texts at work, anyone care to calculate what the stresses involved would be.
Re:like overclocking is for people...
on
Iris Indigo Case Mod
·
· Score: 2, Funny
who set fire to their cars?;-)
A friend of mine did that. He removed the carpet and had sprayed on undercoat inside his car, but it wasnt drying fast enough, so he tried to speed up the process with an electric fan heater.
Bad Move.
He compleatly burnt out the inside of his own car. Fortunatly he managed to put it out before it set fire to his garage and house.
If the only way to factor a number was trial division then you would be correct. However the modern algorythms for factoring are much better than that, perhaps you are confusing symetric cryptography such as DES or AES with RSA.
I am unable to find a table online but in 83 a cray factored a 71 digit number in 0.1 Mips-year (1 million instructions per second for 1 year) Since the numbers are talking about are much smaller (50 digits vs 71 digits) and cpu's are much faster (> 1 billion ips) it would not be unresonable that a 50 digit prime could be factored in a few hours on a machine with suffecient memory.
If I recall correctly the banking industry uses 512 bit RSA keys. If with this hardware its computationally equivalent to a 512/3 or 170 bit key then I imagine that the bankers are getting very very nervous.
I hope that the banks can update their infrastructure fast enough or we are going to have massive problems as soon as someone builds a illicit factoring machine.
A seperate work related project had me downloading about 2GB a day for several months. I was actually burning 3 cd's a day, and I have about 500 of them archived.
I am now down to about 400 to 500 MB a day and I now have the fun task of processing all that data.
What I do is use rsync to backup the company fileserver to a remote machine every 2 hours during business hours. Each update transfers about 10 to 20 MB over DSL/Cable. Then every evening I backup all the files that have changed over the last 24 hours into a seperate dated directory. The first dated backup consisted of the entire server (6 gb) and all the subsiquent backups are about 50 MB a day zipped.
So I have both a snapshot of the current status of the server with 2 hours accuracy and the ability to roll back the server to any point with 24 hours accuracy.
The best part is the company is paying for my Cable connection at home to do this.
A quote from the article: The $30 million will be distributed to consumers who have been defrauded by Crescent Publishing.
If that proves impractical, the money will be divided equally between the U.S. Treasury and the State of New York, the FTC said.
Want to bet that it will be very impractical to distrubute all the funds to the victims. They will probibly make the application procedure so complex and convoluted that most people will give up.
One thing you must remember before writing Java off compleatly is that Java is the language being taught to most University CS students, I cannot see all these recent graduates deciding to abandon Java in favor of C#.
As well many companies that are using Java are doing so primarly because it is portable. C# lacks that feature.
For example there are 4 different books by 4 different authors called "Windows 2000 Active Directory" on amazon.com, even if the books themselves are copyright the titles arent.
Its pretty low grade heat, only.73 litres/hour of steam/condensate. You would be better off just dumping it into your domestic hot water system and reclaiming heat that way.
Unfortunately it requires 99.99% dry hydrogen gas. H2 gas cylinders are not exactly portable and pure gas is not readily available.
When the thing can run on the very impure output from a reformer running on natural gas or propane that is when it will be truly useful. However this is a good first step at commercializing the product.
I am a big fan of Ballard and their technology and I have 4 friends/neighbors who work there. I actually spent about 9 months trying to get hired back when they were ramping up employment. No dice, it might have been tricky though since my current boss does not want me to leave and he is a friend of the CEO.
Anyone else notice that on Sep 11 when the nytimes.com servers were struggling to keep up with the demand that the one page that popped up quickly was the registration page?
I have very fond memories of programming and learning forth in the mid 80's. The code for forth is written in forth and it is accessible, extensible and understandable to a mere mortal such as myself. I spent far too many hours playing with and tweaking the internals rather than doing any 'Real Work', I had so much fun creating my OO text based windowing system and an enhanced debugger that I never actually created any applications. Oh well, it was fun.
My question: The spec for the x18 CPU shows 128 words of ROM and 384 words of RAM, therefore for any general purpose computations there is going to be a *LOT* of memoty thrashing. Consequently the final performance is more likely to be memory bound than anything else. The problem will only become worse as the number of CPU's on the die increased. How do you intend to deal with this issue?
Slashdot Mirror
I always thought it was a gaggle of geeks or a nest of nerds.
What a billion degrees means is the molecules are moving very fast, however because there are so few of them the total effect is minimal.
Maybe, but I would open the door for some real competition. How many people would chose $20 IE vs free Netscape or similarly priced opera. If Microsoft doesn't offer these addons for close to nothing people will migrate to other solutions. That is absolutly the last thing Microsoft wants.
>> Eat a dick, linux whiner. You're fucking stupid.
Actually I am using opera for Windows. I have used both IE and Netscape but I prefer Opera. Its small, fast and does everything I want it to do.
I can't beleive I am responding to a flame by an AC.
When trying to access there site I get:
To view the Flightship website we recommend a browser version 4.0 or higher. Updating your system will allow you to fully enjoy all the content on the Flightship website.
I use opera 6.0, evidently they think that 6 is less than 4. Why do I suddenly have doubts about thier engineering skills.
20 years ago in Quebec they had a system in which you could PLAY pong against a random opponent by on by tuning into a special tv channel and using a touch tone phone. It was really hard to get into because there was only one channel and lots of busy signals.
It did predate most network games by many years.
I have trouble beleiving that those large portholes (aprox 6' dia) depicted on the interior view can handle the 1000' rated depth. Total pressure is almost about 1.8 million lbs.
Thats a lot for any transparent material, I don't have my engineering texts at work, anyone care to calculate what the stresses involved would be.
Yes, but the modem is huge.
who set fire to their cars? ;-)
A friend of mine did that. He removed the carpet and had sprayed on undercoat inside his car, but it wasnt drying fast enough, so he tried to speed up the process with an electric fan heater.
Bad Move.
He compleatly burnt out the inside of his own car. Fortunatly he managed to put it out before it set fire to his garage and house.
He earned himself the nickname Torch that day.
Yes this is Off Topic.
If the only way to factor a number was trial division then you would be correct. However the modern algorythms for factoring are much better than that, perhaps you are confusing symetric cryptography such as DES or AES with RSA.
I am unable to find a table online but in 83 a cray factored a 71 digit number in 0.1 Mips-year (1 million instructions per second for 1 year) Since the numbers are talking about are much smaller (50 digits vs 71 digits) and cpu's are much faster (> 1 billion ips) it would not be unresonable that a 50 digit prime could be factored in a few hours on a machine with suffecient memory.
If I recall correctly the banking industry uses 512 bit RSA keys. If with this hardware its computationally equivalent to a 512/3 or 170 bit key then I imagine that the bankers are getting very very nervous.
I hope that the banks can update their infrastructure fast enough or we are going to have massive problems as soon as someone builds a illicit factoring machine.
A seperate work related project had me downloading about 2GB a day for several months. I was actually burning 3 cd's a day, and I have about 500 of them archived.
I am now down to about 400 to 500 MB a day and I now have the fun task of processing all that data.
What I do is use rsync to backup the company fileserver to a remote machine every 2 hours during business hours. Each update transfers about 10 to 20 MB over DSL/Cable. Then every evening I backup all the files that have changed over the last 24 hours into a seperate dated directory. The first dated backup consisted of the entire server (6 gb) and all the subsiquent backups are about 50 MB a day zipped.
So I have both a snapshot of the current status of the server with 2 hours accuracy and the ability to roll back the server to any point with 24 hours accuracy.
The best part is the company is paying for my Cable connection at home to do this.
You can also try the following stories.
t ml
m l (Reg Required)
l
www.msnbc.com/news/652977.asp
money.cnn.com/2001/11/06/technology/microsoft/
www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,316946-412,00.sh
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,38145,00.html
www.nytimes.com/2001/11/06/business/06CND-SOFT.ht
canoe.ca/MoneyMicrosoft/nov6_msfttwothirds-ap.htm
A quote from the article:
The $30 million will be distributed to consumers who have been defrauded by Crescent Publishing.
If that proves impractical, the money will be divided equally between the U.S. Treasury and the State of New York, the FTC said.
Want to bet that it will be very impractical to distrubute all the funds to the victims. They will probibly make the application procedure so complex and convoluted that most people will give up.
As well many companies that are using Java are doing so primarly because it is portable. C# lacks that feature.
For example there are 4 different books by 4 different authors called "Windows 2000 Active Directory" on amazon.com, even if the books themselves are copyright the titles arent.
I was given a tour of the research area by a friend once, very interesting place.
Its pretty low grade heat, only .73 litres/hour of steam/condensate. You would be better off just dumping it into your domestic hot water system and reclaiming heat that way.
When the thing can run on the very impure output from a reformer running on natural gas or propane that is when it will be truly useful. However this is a good first step at commercializing the product.
I am a big fan of Ballard and their technology and I have 4 friends/neighbors who work there. I actually spent about 9 months trying to get hired back when they were ramping up employment. No dice, it might have been tricky though since my current boss does not want me to leave and he is a friend of the CEO.
Anyone else notice that on Sep 11 when the nytimes .com servers were struggling to keep up with the demand that the one page that popped up quickly was the registration page?
spp_http_decode: IIS Unicode attack detected
1300 attempts in 3 hours, and they all seem to be from 216.X.X.X
I thought that get out of jail free cards only happened in the game of monopoly.
My question: The spec for the x18 CPU shows 128 words of ROM and 384 words of RAM, therefore for any general purpose computations there is going to be a *LOT* of memoty thrashing. Consequently the final performance is more likely to be memory bound than anything else. The problem will only become worse as the number of CPU's on the die increased. How do you intend to deal with this issue?