That's another interesting point I hadn't considered... the momentum of the object would likely be maintained, and what about the potential energy such as relative positions to gravity wells. I can't even think of a way to compensate for that while maintaining energy/mater/potential-energy. Makes the idea of time travel even one more notch impossible.
Imagine you somehow got unlucky enough to grab something else, say a bit of Jupiter or another planet whose orbit intersected that of earth at another time? (yes they don't intersect, but only if you don't consider the whole solar system is moving relative to space) Imagine grabbing a hunk of a very different moving speed of another planet. That'd make a worse mess than grabbing a hunk of pressurized magma. Possibilities are interesting.
anyone that has (in the past) managed to create a time travel device and has tried it, probably thought they made a disintegration machine, because anything they sent back or forward in time was never seen again. (or before, I suppose)
Because a second/minute/year/millenia ago that spot was occupied by empty space. The earth is moving very fast through space.
I've always used that reason to concede that even if we DO make time travel possible, it will be of little practical value.
Then there's the other snag of transposition... if you say, send yourself back in time, what happens to that volume of space where you arrive? Is it destroyed? And what fills in the void where you left? Or one more expected result is it's transposed with your time's space. Thus all time travel is time swapping, something goes forward and something goes back. Now lets say you do make a time travel machine, and test it without considering the earth-travels-through-space issue... that means whatever you send out, you get a big ball of vacuum back. If it's a very brief travel, you may get a chunk of earth, high pressure ocean, or more likely, high pressure magma. Ouch... hope you got insurance. That'll turn your lab into a disaster area real quick.
There are so man "problems" with time travel, that it really doesn't matter if its possible or not. It's not useful.
The researchers say that the mutation wasn't selected out of the population because its effects don't occur until after the childbearing years.
It's not that simple though. One's roll in the gene pool does not (indirectly) end when you lose fertility. The grandparents care for the children, and in doing so, their children's (related) DNA is encouraged. Also, unlike women, men don't have menopause, and are also affected by heart disease etc and a man's DNA is just as genetically useful at 60 as it was at 25.
ya the OLD fireballs, prior to ibm, were great. so were the old seagate prior to the merger with maxtor. Those used to be the only two brands of HD I bought.
mergers seem to destroy HD quality. WD hasn't gone through any that i know of, and it's quality has gone from the suckith to good.
"I would still wind up losing customers. I would also have to pay Nexicon for this...
They do address this on their web page
THE VALUE: GetAmnesty provides content owners with a new revenue stream by collecting settlement fees on their behalf from those who illegally download their copyrighted content. Further, violators are tagged with a complete history of their downloading activities, which is easily translated to create customer profiles for online marketing purposes.
Looks like they intend for the loss of customers to be more than offset by the extortion payments you receive from some of them.
I'm betting NOT. Suing (or extorting, threatening to sue and selling "protection") your customers has never been an effective business model. You'd think they'd have learned that by now.
Because when you increase your transmit power a bunch, all your neighbors' wifis become useless and they unplug/return them. *ding* Many of your sources of interference go away and you can turn your power back down, yielding a more favorable s/n ratio.
But on a lighter note, from one who works in radios a lot, increasing your transmit power is only generally useful if BOTH ends of your hardware do it. It's totally useless to be able to receive the AP's signal clear as a bell if the AP can't hear you back. In many cases, the AP already has better power and a better antenna anyway, so if you could only bump one end of the conversation, you would probably get more mileage by doing it at the laptop/desktop end. I've seen people astounded that adding an amplifier on their end didn't magically improve their set's range, because while others could now hear them whereas not before, they could not hear their replies.1
But all other factors being equal and in marginal cases where a small improvement would do, the station that is closer to the interference needs the OTHER station to transmit higher power, to make it over the nearby interference that is jamming its receive.
Lastly, trying to move the units to different locations or reorienting their antennas can yield amazing results. Or improve your antenna(s). I was recently at a customer's house and he had a desktop upstairs on one end of the (large) house and a base downstairs in the other corner and was having problems. His card happened to have a removable duck antenna and I swapped it out for the large mag mount I carry in my bag, and he got signal fine then. Those ducks on the back of PCI cards in slots on desktops have terrible range because the metal case is so close to the antenna. (and in his situation, it was physically blocking line of sight to the base)
And don't underestimate the loss of signal in coax at these high frequencies. Running an antenna to the roof to get a good outdoor signal will butcher the signal more than a higher antenna ever could help. If you want to get the antenna a good distance from the computer, get a USB wireless stick and move it and the antenna. Run a long USB cable to the computer, since digital signals do not degrade over distance. (tho USB itself has distance limit cutoffs) You can get a self-contained 20+dbi gain directional antenna with integrated 802.11 wireless transceiver on ebay for under $150, and I've been able to run USB for over 50ft with good cables.
I think it's a matter of when. Seagate USED TO be the gold standard in quality HDs. They cost more too. Then maxtor bought them out and now I can honestly say as a computer repairman, that I have replaced easily 5x as many seagate laptop drives as any other brand, for click/chirp of death. (and now seagate is cheaper, and who wants a 5 yr warranty now when you're going to get four or more opportunities to use it?)
The last seagate I bought sounded like a circular saw was running in the basement when I got home two weeks after buying it. That was enough for me.
Back then WD was trash, and so was toshiba. Now, toshiba seems to have an even rep, and WD is looking good.
Another buy-and-die brand was quantum. Fireballs were good drives until they got bought out by IBM, who then almost immediately gave us the DeathStar series.
I used to make a habit of buying quality drives. Now there's just no knowing. Backups, backups, backups.
The pneumonics themselves can be a short list, but you have actual opcodes for the variations in addressing mode
LDA #00 LDA $00 LDA ($00) LDA $0000
One pneumonic, with four addressing modes. If you figure on 16 pneumonics, and use the lower 1/2 of the byte for address modes, it would still be efficient to execute on an 8 bit machine. Some of the 6502 pneumonics had more than four addressing modes, particularly the operators, (INC, etc) because they dealt with more than one thing at a time.
I recall looking at the 6502 opcode chart and trying to see if there was a rule, but it was more of a pattern with exceptions.
Travel time outside your ordinary work commute should be paid working time. If they're snookering you into using a day off to travel for them, you need to do something about that.
look-Ma-no-multiply-or-divide instruction set of the 1MHz 8-bit 6502 processor that powered the Apple II
The majority of the 6502's instructions were 8 bit. I wrote quite a lot in 6502, and several times had to code 16 or 24 bit multiply/divide routines. BASIC even had floating point math which I never ventured into. Anytime you wanted to deal with a number > 255 you had to juggle carries.
Overall it's a very good learning experience. The first thing any assembly course teaches you is how to do some of the more complicated instructions using simpler instructions. My first touch with a higher assembly (VMS VAX) was a cakewalk because they were basically teaching me things that were old hat. ("and this week we are going to learn how to do multiplication and division without using the MUL and DIV opcodes..." *yawn*) And when they let us use the more powerful instructions (multiply, SORT, omg this is assembly??) I could sleepwalk through coding. It felt a lot more like BASIC than assembler.
I don't think I can have any respect for assembly that has more than 200 opcodes.
tho that does depend on the amount of quality lost. There have been several cases where I ran into a song I wanted and found it donwloadable somewhere, and later bought the whole album and ripped it in, and was stunned by the difference in quality.
I'm by no definition an audiophile, but some of the transcodes out there just butcher the music, in a way that anyone, on any player, with any speakers/buds, can tell the difference.
"feels faster" is when they wait 2 seconds before changing the cursor into an hourglass. It's still nonresponsive in those two seconds leading to the zombie cursor, but it doesn't "feel" as unresponsive because it still looks normal.
Also makes it harder to tell when it's doing something that it's been toggling in and out of zombie mode every other second for the last two minutes.
It'd be nice if there was a clean, clear way to tell for example, how fast it really boots. I don't mean to the point of the desktop, or even to where you can start actually clicking things, but to the point of where it's stopped hammering the resources to the point of near-unusability and you can actually start to get things done.
Vigilantism is the result of when the government cannot protect the citizen from something that it's reasonable to believe they should be protected from. It's usually due to the problem of balance between making things illegal and restricting reasonable fredom.
But in this case it's more toward the issue of the problem not being within the government's charter, or that the government simply does not have the structure (laws, with teeth) required to protect the citizen.
I'm not a fan of vigilantism in general, but there are times when I approve of it. I'd personally love it if someone would infiltrate the botnets and inject a command to brick (but not erase) every computer that's infected, as a measure to protect millions of innocent people.
Imagine the city you live in, where 15% of the cars parked on the curbs have the keys in the ignition. And there's a growing problem in the city of kids going on joy rides and trashing cars and property and even killing people. But the car owners don't want to bother with the problem and don't care unless their car gets trashed, and don't wany anyone telling them what to do with their car. I'd lead the effort to walk the blocks, looking for cars with keys in the ignition, and hiding them somewhere in their car. Don't like it? Quit leaving your keys in the ignition. yes, it may violate a right of yours, but by your extending your liberty it's violating the rights of others to a larger degree.
Am I the only one that is "reading between the lines" of Mr McBride as to saying that the viable business assets (IP/service) that SCO owns are "dragging down" the litigation efforts (distracting from them anyway, loss of focus) and that he wants to get rid of them, to strengthen the litigation business model?
How backwards is THAT?
"Just WOW" indeed... the ability of some people to surpass seemingly insurmountable levels of prior stupidity do continue to amaze me.
The company forces the customer to go to an electronic statement. (..perhaps not in this specific article, however in the future...)
I don't think they can do that. I've had 1/2 dozen companies offer me a perk of some sort to go paperless, but it's always been an option. My bank for example, (a credit union, excellent way to bank!) will let me do electronic billpays (even those that require manually mailing a check) for FREE if I go paperless, which I did. Only saves me about a buck a month (on stamps) but it's nice. Plus I can just save my statements as PDFs on my computer and review them at any time without keeping a shoebox full of statements on the shelf in the closet.
I fully expect my statements to no longer be available to me electronically if I leave the bank, and I also fully expect to have to pay for a print copy of a statement after we part ways also. I don't see why anyone expects free service after you are no longer a customer...
I believe a correctly set-up email system in any large organization should limit who is able to send email to >x number of recipients. If the janitor emails 5,000 people with one mail, don't blame the system, and don't go hunting for the janitor, haul your IT director into the waterboard room for a discussion.
Blaming the user or blaming the system when someone's set the system up to allow the user to do "that", is neither the user nor the system's fault.
I'm sure it receives a lot of special modifications. Here's what they do to protect a C130 from a heat seeking missile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmZDdvKAUOg I'd imagine the onboard "electronic warfare" package is also substantial.
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That's another interesting point I hadn't considered... the momentum of the object would likely be maintained, and what about the potential energy such as relative positions to gravity wells. I can't even think of a way to compensate for that while maintaining energy/mater/potential-energy. Makes the idea of time travel even one more notch impossible.
Imagine you somehow got unlucky enough to grab something else, say a bit of Jupiter or another planet whose orbit intersected that of earth at another time? (yes they don't intersect, but only if you don't consider the whole solar system is moving relative to space) Imagine grabbing a hunk of a very different moving speed of another planet. That'd make a worse mess than grabbing a hunk of pressurized magma. Possibilities are interesting.
I can honestly say my grandparents have never really helped me get laid.
They conceived your mother or father. I'd say that was pretty useful to your being around to get laid...
anyone that has (in the past) managed to create a time travel device and has tried it, probably thought they made a disintegration machine, because anything they sent back or forward in time was never seen again. (or before, I suppose)
Because a second/minute/year/millenia ago that spot was occupied by empty space. The earth is moving very fast through space.
I've always used that reason to concede that even if we DO make time travel possible, it will be of little practical value.
Then there's the other snag of transposition... if you say, send yourself back in time, what happens to that volume of space where you arrive? Is it destroyed? And what fills in the void where you left? Or one more expected result is it's transposed with your time's space. Thus all time travel is time swapping, something goes forward and something goes back. Now lets say you do make a time travel machine, and test it without considering the earth-travels-through-space issue... that means whatever you send out, you get a big ball of vacuum back. If it's a very brief travel, you may get a chunk of earth, high pressure ocean, or more likely, high pressure magma. Ouch... hope you got insurance. That'll turn your lab into a disaster area real quick.
There are so man "problems" with time travel, that it really doesn't matter if its possible or not. It's not useful.
The researchers say that the mutation wasn't selected out of the population because its effects don't occur until after the childbearing years.
It's not that simple though. One's roll in the gene pool does not (indirectly) end when you lose fertility. The grandparents care for the children, and in doing so, their children's (related) DNA is encouraged. Also, unlike women, men don't have menopause, and are also affected by heart disease etc and a man's DNA is just as genetically useful at 60 as it was at 25.
I'd question that researcher's conclusion..
>> But on a lighter note, from one who works in radios a lot[...]
>Wow, you must be really small!
no, I just have really tiny hands
ya the OLD fireballs, prior to ibm, were great. so were the old seagate prior to the merger with maxtor. Those used to be the only two brands of HD I bought.
mergers seem to destroy HD quality. WD hasn't gone through any that i know of, and it's quality has gone from the suckith to good.
"I would still wind up losing customers. I would also have to pay Nexicon for this ...
They do address this on their web page
THE VALUE: GetAmnesty provides content owners with a new revenue stream by collecting settlement fees on their behalf from those who illegally download their copyrighted content. Further, violators are tagged with a complete history of their downloading activities, which is easily translated to create customer profiles for online marketing purposes.
Looks like they intend for the loss of customers to be more than offset by the extortion payments you receive from some of them.
I'm betting NOT. Suing (or extorting, threatening to sue and selling "protection") your customers has never been an effective business model. You'd think they'd have learned that by now.
Because when you increase your transmit power a bunch, all your neighbors' wifis become useless and they unplug/return them. *ding* Many of your sources of interference go away and you can turn your power back down, yielding a more favorable s/n ratio.
But on a lighter note, from one who works in radios a lot, increasing your transmit power is only generally useful if BOTH ends of your hardware do it. It's totally useless to be able to receive the AP's signal clear as a bell if the AP can't hear you back. In many cases, the AP already has better power and a better antenna anyway, so if you could only bump one end of the conversation, you would probably get more mileage by doing it at the laptop/desktop end. I've seen people astounded that adding an amplifier on their end didn't magically improve their set's range, because while others could now hear them whereas not before, they could not hear their replies.1
But all other factors being equal and in marginal cases where a small improvement would do, the station that is closer to the interference needs the OTHER station to transmit higher power, to make it over the nearby interference that is jamming its receive.
Lastly, trying to move the units to different locations or reorienting their antennas can yield amazing results. Or improve your antenna(s). I was recently at a customer's house and he had a desktop upstairs on one end of the (large) house and a base downstairs in the other corner and was having problems. His card happened to have a removable duck antenna and I swapped it out for the large mag mount I carry in my bag, and he got signal fine then. Those ducks on the back of PCI cards in slots on desktops have terrible range because the metal case is so close to the antenna. (and in his situation, it was physically blocking line of sight to the base)
And don't underestimate the loss of signal in coax at these high frequencies. Running an antenna to the roof to get a good outdoor signal will butcher the signal more than a higher antenna ever could help. If you want to get the antenna a good distance from the computer, get a USB wireless stick and move it and the antenna. Run a long USB cable to the computer, since digital signals do not degrade over distance. (tho USB itself has distance limit cutoffs) You can get a self-contained 20+dbi gain directional antenna with integrated 802.11 wireless transceiver on ebay for under $150, and I've been able to run USB for over 50ft with good cables.
I think it's a matter of when. Seagate USED TO be the gold standard in quality HDs. They cost more too. Then maxtor bought them out and now I can honestly say as a computer repairman, that I have replaced easily 5x as many seagate laptop drives as any other brand, for click/chirp of death. (and now seagate is cheaper, and who wants a 5 yr warranty now when you're going to get four or more opportunities to use it?)
The last seagate I bought sounded like a circular saw was running in the basement when I got home two weeks after buying it. That was enough for me.
Back then WD was trash, and so was toshiba. Now, toshiba seems to have an even rep, and WD is looking good.
Another buy-and-die brand was quantum. Fireballs were good drives until they got bought out by IBM, who then almost immediately gave us the DeathStar series.
I used to make a habit of buying quality drives. Now there's just no knowing. Backups, backups, backups.
but have you ever heard it? It was an easter egg, I forget where. (about this mac or in appleworks or simpletext or something)
It's a "mooooooF" Can't forget it once you've heard it.
The pneumonics themselves can be a short list, but you have actual opcodes for the variations in addressing mode
LDA #00
LDA $00
LDA ($00)
LDA $0000
One pneumonic, with four addressing modes. If you figure on 16 pneumonics, and use the lower 1/2 of the byte for address modes, it would still be efficient to execute on an 8 bit machine. Some of the 6502 pneumonics had more than four addressing modes, particularly the operators, (INC, etc) because they dealt with more than one thing at a time.
I recall looking at the 6502 opcode chart and trying to see if there was a rule, but it was more of a pattern with exceptions.
Travel time outside your ordinary work commute should be paid working time. If they're snookering you into using a day off to travel for them, you need to do something about that.
If the name "Clarus" means nothing to you
Actually Clarus didn't mean much to me until a visit to Wikipedia. Maybe you meant Claris?
(from Back to the Future 2 iirc, "You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong"
the server proceeded to pour about 1/2 cup of olive oil over the whole thing
Be thankful. Could have been on the laptop instead...
look-Ma-no-multiply-or-divide instruction set of the 1MHz 8-bit 6502 processor that powered the Apple II
The majority of the 6502's instructions were 8 bit. I wrote quite a lot in 6502, and several times had to code 16 or 24 bit multiply/divide routines. BASIC even had floating point math which I never ventured into. Anytime you wanted to deal with a number > 255 you had to juggle carries.
Overall it's a very good learning experience. The first thing any assembly course teaches you is how to do some of the more complicated instructions using simpler instructions. My first touch with a higher assembly (VMS VAX) was a cakewalk because they were basically teaching me things that were old hat. ("and this week we are going to learn how to do multiplication and division without using the MUL and DIV opcodes..." *yawn*) And when they let us use the more powerful instructions (multiply, SORT, omg this is assembly??) I could sleepwalk through coding. It felt a lot more like BASIC than assembler.
I don't think I can have any respect for assembly that has more than 200 opcodes.
got a copy you can post somewhere? I'd like to see it
tho that does depend on the amount of quality lost. There have been several cases where I ran into a song I wanted and found it donwloadable somewhere, and later bought the whole album and ripped it in, and was stunned by the difference in quality.
I'm by no definition an audiophile, but some of the transcodes out there just butcher the music, in a way that anyone, on any player, with any speakers/buds, can tell the difference.
"feels faster" is when they wait 2 seconds before changing the cursor into an hourglass. It's still nonresponsive in those two seconds leading to the zombie cursor, but it doesn't "feel" as unresponsive because it still looks normal.
Also makes it harder to tell when it's doing something that it's been toggling in and out of zombie mode every other second for the last two minutes.
It'd be nice if there was a clean, clear way to tell for example, how fast it really boots. I don't mean to the point of the desktop, or even to where you can start actually clicking things, but to the point of where it's stopped hammering the resources to the point of near-unusability and you can actually start to get things done.
what happened to mirrordot? it's currently hosting "0 articles". dur?
Vigilantism is the result of when the government cannot protect the citizen from something that it's reasonable to believe they should be protected from. It's usually due to the problem of balance between making things illegal and restricting reasonable fredom.
But in this case it's more toward the issue of the problem not being within the government's charter, or that the government simply does not have the structure (laws, with teeth) required to protect the citizen.
I'm not a fan of vigilantism in general, but there are times when I approve of it. I'd personally love it if someone would infiltrate the botnets and inject a command to brick (but not erase) every computer that's infected, as a measure to protect millions of innocent people.
Imagine the city you live in, where 15% of the cars parked on the curbs have the keys in the ignition. And there's a growing problem in the city of kids going on joy rides and trashing cars and property and even killing people. But the car owners don't want to bother with the problem and don't care unless their car gets trashed, and don't wany anyone telling them what to do with their car. I'd lead the effort to walk the blocks, looking for cars with keys in the ignition, and hiding them somewhere in their car. Don't like it? Quit leaving your keys in the ignition. yes, it may violate a right of yours, but by your extending your liberty it's violating the rights of others to a larger degree.
Am I the only one that is "reading between the lines" of Mr McBride as to saying that the viable business assets (IP/service) that SCO owns are "dragging down" the litigation efforts (distracting from them anyway, loss of focus) and that he wants to get rid of them, to strengthen the litigation business model?
How backwards is THAT?
"Just WOW" indeed... the ability of some people to surpass seemingly insurmountable levels of prior stupidity do continue to amaze me.
The company forces the customer to go to an electronic statement. (..perhaps not in this specific article, however in the future...)
I don't think they can do that. I've had 1/2 dozen companies offer me a perk of some sort to go paperless, but it's always been an option. My bank for example, (a credit union, excellent way to bank!) will let me do electronic billpays (even those that require manually mailing a check) for FREE if I go paperless, which I did. Only saves me about a buck a month (on stamps) but it's nice. Plus I can just save my statements as PDFs on my computer and review them at any time without keeping a shoebox full of statements on the shelf in the closet.
I fully expect my statements to no longer be available to me electronically if I leave the bank, and I also fully expect to have to pay for a print copy of a statement after we part ways also. I don't see why anyone expects free service after you are no longer a customer...
I believe a correctly set-up email system in any large organization should limit who is able to send email to >x number of recipients. If the janitor emails 5,000 people with one mail, don't blame the system, and don't go hunting for the janitor, haul your IT director into the waterboard room for a discussion.
Blaming the user or blaming the system when someone's set the system up to allow the user to do "that", is neither the user nor the system's fault.
Not sure how you get a "100+%" kill ratio
remember, 83% of all statistics are made up on the spot
I'm sure it receives a lot of special modifications. Here's what they do to protect a C130 from a heat seeking missile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmZDdvKAUOg
I'd imagine the onboard "electronic warfare" package is also substantial.