Dude, the top is the Earth Simulator. It's more than 4 times faster than the #2 super computer (~4000 alphas), and more than 6 times faster than the Linux one.:P
Yes, but there's a slight difference between congress and some random commercial vendor. When congress says that the encryption is supposed to be military grade, they could actually give it to the NSA to encrypt.:P
A GSM phone broadcasts at up to about 2 watts. A phone on board a plane tends to broadcast at full strength very frequently, due to the mechanics of the situation (high altitude, weak signal, changing cells rapidly). Now, if everybody on the plane is carrying a cell phone, and they're all on, you'll have a couple of hundred of phones broadcasting at 2 watts. A couple of watts might not be a major issue most of the time, but a few hundred watts of agregate signal strength I imagine is another matter entirely.
If the ban keeps most phones off it has done its job.
The doppler shift of a radio wave by travelling at 100kpg is about 80hz, or less than 0.00001% of the signal frequency. I have a hard time believing that's a significant effect.
Not really true in the US. I'm not 100% certain on this, but I believe you loose your right to vote if you're convicted of a felony. See the war on drugs.
Also, the American and British forces launched thousands of air-strikes against Iraqi military emplacements in the no-fly-zones. If memory serves me correctly, the US and British militaries dropped several times the amount of ordinance on Iraq during the enforcement of the no-fly-zones than they did in the original war.
Potentially is such a weasler. Let's face it, how many projects actually get any sort of in depth review from a lot of people?
The small projects aren't usually popular enough to attract sufficient attention. The big ones are too large an undertaking for anything but a cursory inspection which will only reveal the most blatant of security flaws; consider how long it's taken to find all the ptrace flaws in the linux kernel.
If I have my comparisons correct, that's an ip address for every atom in the universe. Of course, if we want to address protons and electrons, we'll have to use NAT too.
Three words: Formal verification methods.
The mechanism of mathematically proving your software to be correct. Languages like Eiffel are even designed with automated verifiers in mind.
The truth is, not enough people really care. Back in 'the day' software systems were simple enough that it wasn't such a huge problem, and at the same time the cost of failure was relatively minimal. Consequently, it was never a huge issue to create more robust underpinnings.
Now, things have changed. It's a huge job making sure something is reasonably bug free, and a failure can be very costly indeed. The problem is that most of the computing models we're using are fragile. C, C++, Windows, UNIX, MacOS, some are better than others, but they're all fragile and brittle. It's so easy to step on your toes, it's no wonder we have all these problems. But the cost of rebuilding everything with reliability in mind is huge, and no one is willing to do it. It's too big a project for most academics or free software hackers, and no major company is willing to spend the money on the project, instead focusing on the short-run prospects of getting the application out the door.
C/C++ just aren't good languages for implementing state machines in. Languages with support for full coroutines (like
uC++) make implementing state machines practically trivial.
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Insider trading is legal as long as you follow a strict set of procedures (in short, you've got to tell everybody first).
Dude. Mach is the Multics of microkernels.
The GPL claims to be copyright protected.
You're new here, aren't you?
Weta's new cluster doesn't even come close.
Nonsense? Pah. Easy. Only release a list of md5/sha hashes of the addresses.
Yes, but there's a slight difference between congress and some random commercial vendor. When congress says that the encryption is supposed to be military grade, they could actually give it to the NSA to encrypt. :P
If the ban keeps most phones off it has done its job.
The doppler shift of a radio wave by travelling at 100kpg is about 80hz, or less than 0.00001% of the signal frequency. I have a hard time believing that's a significant effect.
Not really true in the US. I'm not 100% certain on this, but I believe you loose your right to vote if you're convicted of a felony. See the war on drugs.
In America, truth is absolute defence against libel.
Also, the American and British forces launched thousands of air-strikes against Iraqi military emplacements in the no-fly-zones. If memory serves me correctly, the US and British militaries dropped several times the amount of ordinance on Iraq during the enforcement of the no-fly-zones than they did in the original war.
The small projects aren't usually popular enough to attract sufficient attention. The big ones are too large an undertaking for anything but a cursory inspection which will only reveal the most blatant of security flaws; consider how long it's taken to find all the ptrace flaws in the linux kernel.
If I have my comparisons correct, that's an ip address for every atom in the universe. Of course, if we want to address protons and electrons, we'll have to use NAT too.
Okay, so I'm sure it'd probably explode or something. But it'd look cool for a few moments.
Eiffel.NET? Ask and you shall receive. :)
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No, the one he's referring to (the famous one) is near Moncton, New Brunswick, and is called Magnetic Hill.
The article doesn't say, who ordered the shredding?
Three words: Formal verification methods. The mechanism of mathematically proving your software to be correct. Languages like Eiffel are even designed with automated verifiers in mind.
Now, things have changed. It's a huge job making sure something is reasonably bug free, and a failure can be very costly indeed. The problem is that most of the computing models we're using are fragile. C, C++, Windows, UNIX, MacOS, some are better than others, but they're all fragile and brittle. It's so easy to step on your toes, it's no wonder we have all these problems. But the cost of rebuilding everything with reliability in mind is huge, and no one is willing to do it. It's too big a project for most academics or free software hackers, and no major company is willing to spend the money on the project, instead focusing on the short-run prospects of getting the application out the door.
*sigh* Mod parent down....
Great! When can we start?
Windows has had a hardware accelerated GUI since the introduction of GDI+ in Windows XP. OS X didn't have hardware accelerated Quartz until Jaguar.
I don't suppose anybody's ever heard of fact-checking, though....
C/C++ just aren't good languages for implementing state machines in. Languages with support for full coroutines (like uC++) make implementing state machines practically trivial.