No sir, it is not. In my experience Travan and QIC tape drives have an average lifespan of roughly three years. I don't know if DATs and DLTs are any better. I would hope so. I don't have much experience with them. Maybe it is a reflection of the brands our various employers purchased, or the environments in which they were used, but in my experience, tape drives are much less reliable than hard drives.
In my years as a hardware tech, I've replaced far more tape drives due to hardware failure than hard drives. Hard drives seem to be built to higher reliability standards than tape drives.
When I was in university, you could go to any terminal, log in, and have access to your data. The data didn't move. All processing was done at the mainframe.
I have heard that in the good ol' days, some CAD/CAM terminals were essentially nothing more than a TV, keyboard and mouse. The mainframe generated the video signal, and piped it through a standard video cable to the CAD/CAM monitor. At the same time, keyboard and mouse signals were piped over an analog modem back to the mainframe.
The point is, there is no need for the data to move. All you need to move is the video from the display, the audio from the sound card, and the keyboard/mouse signals. The terminal can be, in essence, a dumb terminal. Instead of a mainframe, you'd log into a server farm.
The factor that makes 2D work is that you can project it onto a screen. You can't do that with 3D . Light doesn't bend in mid-air, so you're not going to get an R2D2 style hologram projector. In order to see a 3D image, you somehow have to look through the holographic plate. For mass viewing, that means you need a large holographic plate, and that means large processing speeds.
True enough. However, what is the content worth? What I pay $10.50 for now, I can watch on TV, or get a DVD of it in my cereal, for free in two or three years time. It's not like the movie spoils or degrades, so it's obvious that the content is effectively worthless. So, if I download something that has no value, have I actually stolen anything?
TLC stands for The Learning Channel.
Lots of businesses have simplified their names to three letter acronyms: IBM, HMV, KFC, etc. It doesn't mean that they're not who they used to be known as.
When two beams of light merge, they interact with each other and create a pattern of light and dark regions called an interference pattern. A hologram is basically just a photograph of an interference pattern. It is a two dimensional (incredibly complex) pattern of light and dark areas on the film. The magic of holograms lies in the fact that the interference pattern captured on film can act as a lens. When you shine one of the original beams of light (the reference beam) through a hologram you get a replica of the other beam of light (the object beam) coming out. If the object holographed was 2D, you get a 2D hologram, If it was 3D (as most are), you get a 3D hologram.
Where we're at now is that we can compute the interference pattern needed to project a 2D object, rather than having to photograph it, and we can compute it on the fly.
Are you trying to say that the radiation exposure danger is different on the way down than the way up? Please explain, because the problem looks symmetrical to me. You're travelling through the same region of space over the same time period, just in a different direction. If a shielded car can bring an astronaut up safely through the radiation belts, then why can't it bring an astronaut down safely?
That makes no sense. You've got a car that takes people safely up the elevator, and instead of taking that same car safely down the elevator, you want people to get into some sort of landing craft to come down? You realize that that lander will be coming down from orbit. It would need to make a deorbitting burn, have all the heat shielding necessary for re-entry, and suffer from all the risks that a shuttle re-entry suffers from. It's not simply a quick drop in a parachute or glider. As an emergency vector home, it would be fine. But for routine returns, well, the car needs to come down anyways. It might as well come down full rather than empty.
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Either that or the zero config util brings a bug on the card/hardware to the surface. It may not be as clear cut as it seems. It could even be a side effect of spyware on the affected machine.
However, as a warm blooded creature, the poster is using chemical reactions to maintain its temperature , and is thus emitting infrared photons that are not reflections or absorption/re-emission photons.
They most certainly can do number 4. Archaeologists don't just throw a dart at a map when they choose where to dig. They examine the existing evidence, form a hypothesis, and test that hypothesis by doing an excavation. The dig is the experiment. They will either find evidence to support their hypothesis, or they won't. And some things are repeatable. For example, several archaeologist have tried to determine the extent of some of the shafts in the pyramids. In the past they have used metal rods as probes. In current times they use a robot to explore the shaft.
There was an episode of Lil' Rascals wherein they made a fire truck (I think). They had a dog on a treadmill as the engine. When they stepped on the "gas" pedal, it lifted the door between the dog and a cat. The dog saw the cat and gave chase, and powered the vehicle.
Nothing would stop your rocket. Escape velocity refers to the speed that an *unpowered* projectile would need to attain to escape from the Earth. It is easier for us to accelerate a rocket to escape velocity than for us to build one that can sustain a 1m/s upward velocity long enough to reach orbit.
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No sir, it is not. In my experience Travan and QIC tape drives have an average lifespan of roughly three years. I don't know if DATs and DLTs are any better. I would hope so. I don't have much experience with them. Maybe it is a reflection of the brands our various employers purchased, or the environments in which they were used, but in my experience, tape drives are much less reliable than hard drives.
In my years as a hardware tech, I've replaced far more tape drives due to hardware failure than hard drives. Hard drives seem to be built to higher reliability standards than tape drives.
When I was in university, you could go to any terminal, log in, and have access to your data. The data didn't move. All processing was done at the mainframe.
I have heard that in the good ol' days, some CAD/CAM terminals were essentially nothing more than a TV, keyboard and mouse. The mainframe generated the video signal, and piped it through a standard video cable to the CAD/CAM monitor. At the same time, keyboard and mouse signals were piped over an analog modem back to the mainframe.
The point is, there is no need for the data to move. All you need to move is the video from the display, the audio from the sound card, and the keyboard/mouse signals. The terminal can be, in essence, a dumb terminal. Instead of a mainframe, you'd log into a server farm.
The factor that makes 2D work is that you can project it onto a screen. You can't do that with 3D . Light doesn't bend in mid-air, so you're not going to get an R2D2 style hologram projector. In order to see a 3D image, you somehow have to look through the holographic plate. For mass viewing, that means you need a large holographic plate, and that means large processing speeds.
True enough. However, what is the content worth? What I pay $10.50 for now, I can watch on TV, or get a DVD of it in my cereal, for free in two or three years time. It's not like the movie spoils or degrades, so it's obvious that the content is effectively worthless. So, if I download something that has no value, have I actually stolen anything?
I understand that they already do that for static 3D images. Check out this company for some examples.
TLC stands for The Learning Channel.
Lots of businesses have simplified their names to three letter acronyms: IBM, HMV, KFC, etc. It doesn't mean that they're not who they used to be known as.
When two beams of light merge, they interact with each other and create a pattern of light and dark regions called an interference pattern. A hologram is basically just a photograph of an interference pattern. It is a two dimensional (incredibly complex) pattern of light and dark areas on the film. The magic of holograms lies in the fact that the interference pattern captured on film can act as a lens. When you shine one of the original beams of light (the reference beam) through a hologram you get a replica of the other beam of light (the object beam) coming out. If the object holographed was 2D, you get a 2D hologram, If it was 3D (as most are), you get a 3D hologram.
Where we're at now is that we can compute the interference pattern needed to project a 2D object, rather than having to photograph it, and we can compute it on the fly.
The Learning Channel (TLC) is on channel 34 where I live (Rogers Cable).
Are you trying to say that the radiation exposure danger is different on the way down than the way up? Please explain, because the problem looks symmetrical to me. You're travelling through the same region of space over the same time period, just in a different direction. If a shielded car can bring an astronaut up safely through the radiation belts, then why can't it bring an astronaut down safely?
That makes no sense. You've got a car that takes people safely up the elevator, and instead of taking that same car safely down the elevator, you want people to get into some sort of landing craft to come down? You realize that that lander will be coming down from orbit. It would need to make a deorbitting burn, have all the heat shielding necessary for re-entry, and suffer from all the risks that a shuttle re-entry suffers from. It's not simply a quick drop in a parachute or glider. As an emergency vector home, it would be fine. But for routine returns, well, the car needs to come down anyways. It might as well come down full rather than empty.
You wouldn't leave it at the top. Astronauts returning to home would need as much protection on the way down as they needed on the way up.
Spelt is a type of grain.
Either that or the zero config util brings a bug on the card/hardware to the surface. It may not be as clear cut as it seems. It could even be a side effect of spyware on the affected machine.
However, as a warm blooded creature, the poster is using chemical reactions to maintain its temperature , and is thus emitting infrared photons that are not reflections or absorption/re-emission photons.
They most certainly can do number 4. Archaeologists don't just throw a dart at a map when they choose where to dig. They examine the existing evidence, form a hypothesis, and test that hypothesis by doing an excavation. The dig is the experiment. They will either find evidence to support their hypothesis, or they won't. And some things are repeatable. For example, several archaeologist have tried to determine the extent of some of the shafts in the pyramids. In the past they have used metal rods as probes. In current times they use a robot to explore the shaft.
Drycleaners and Laundromats have had these things for years.
I'd like to see that ironing "robot" do this, or this. Mankind will have the edge in ironing for quite a while.
Most of them are probably too young to remember the seventies, let alone the fifties.
There was an episode of Lil' Rascals wherein they made a fire truck (I think). They had a dog on a treadmill as the engine. When they stepped on the "gas" pedal, it lifted the door between the dog and a cat. The dog saw the cat and gave chase, and powered the vehicle.
I was about to post that as well. I like the way he goes off, singing "I've got a date on Saturday..."
Real BASIC uses line numbers. You're using some sort of pseudo BASIC that was developped by people who couldn't handle C.
Nothing would stop your rocket. Escape velocity refers to the speed that an *unpowered* projectile would need to attain to escape from the Earth. It is easier for us to accelerate a rocket to escape velocity than for us to build one that can sustain a 1m/s upward velocity long enough to reach orbit.