Actually, the radiation immunity of core memory is more a function of its size than it being magnetic. The smaller a device is, the easier it its for a single cosmic ray to flip a bit, whether it's storing the bit as a static charge or a magnetic field.
It would be extremely expensive to create an "MRAM hard drive".
This year, yes. However, there's no particular obstacle to MRAM following the same historical trends as other semiconductor devices. One of these years, we'll have computers that don't need moving parts in their bulk storage systems.
In the united states at least, the drive behind mandatory public schooling was a reaction to the civil war. Greeley was very up-front about the "benefit" of indoctrination.
It is precisely because of misanthropes like yourself that it is not wise to disarm the population. Do you often wish great harm on the people around you?
It does not follow that because India has these problems today, that you always will. There are many historical examples of countries raising their standard of living from near-starvation levels. For a nearby example, look at China: tens of millions killed by famine in the 1950s and 1960s, and having an economic explosion today.
I meant if I had it tucked into my belt (yes stupid way to carry a gun), or in a holster, you know I'd get the 3rd degree.
It's sad for you that you live in a country which has stupidly decided to endanger its citizens by denying your right to self-defense, but your attempt to rationalize one violation of rights with an example of another violation of rights (that you seem to think is just fine and dandy) doesn't support your position.
Temporarily confiscating the phone and tampering with its contents are two very different actions. If you can't tell the difference, then you urgently need a refresher course in ethics.
By your logic I should be able to carry a gun around downtown, after all I want to, and it doesn't disrupt anybody, and it's "nobody else's goddamned business"
Until and unless you brandish your weapon and threaten people around you then yes, carrying a gun is your own business. Next question?
You realise that technically, that's a felony, right? That's tampering with a computer system, and I'd like to see you cool your heels in jail for a bit to teach you to respect other people's property, you snotty git.
What does need have to do with it? If a kid wants to carry anything with him to school that's legal to posess, and doesn't disrupt the class, it's nobody else's goddamned business. The school's entire legitimate prerogative here is to require the kid to turn it off during class.
Yes, it certainly is. Kids, if any person demands to examine the contents of your cell phone, tell him to get a warrant. Call your parents, call the local press, and call a lawyer.
Moving a running instance of an OS from one host to another is a great thing for servers, of course, but consider what it can mean for client workstations as well.
Work on your laptop during your commute. When you get to the office, just close it, and have your desktop system mount the laptop as an external drive. Wake up your virtual machine on the desktop system. All your apps, your work in progress, etc, are all just as they were when you closed that lid, and the apps just get an event to tell them that the display configuration has changed. Away from home? Borrow a machine, and copy your VM image from a server at your office. Work on it, and then sync it back to the server when you're done.
Just like virtual memory, just like multi-user, multi-tasking, and multi-threading, all of these things that we think of as server technologies can have a major impact on personal computers as well.
Remember that OS/2 was part and parcel of a strategy to supersede the IBM PC's ISA/DOS standard with MicroChannel and a new operating system. IBM didn't like the fact that Compaq, HP, et all were making more money than they were with PC clones, so they took their best shot at killing off the system they'd started. Basically, they were trying to correct the monumental screw-up they'd made in letting MS sell DOS separately.
Apple will talk about their next OS at the forthcoming WWDC. It's what they've always done.
Actually, I've been to one WWDC where they only talked about Panther, which had just been released. It was way too early to have anything at all to say about Tiger.
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Actually, the radiation immunity of core memory is more a function of its size than it being magnetic. The smaller a device is, the easier it its for a single cosmic ray to flip a bit, whether it's storing the bit as a static charge or a magnetic field.
-jcr
even faster than DRAM.
Ok, I'm sold. I'd love to have non-volatile main memory in my computers.
-jcr
It would be extremely expensive to create an "MRAM hard drive".
This year, yes. However, there's no particular obstacle to MRAM following the same historical trends as other semiconductor devices. One of these years, we'll have computers that don't need moving parts in their bulk storage systems.
-jcr
No, nitromethane is mixed with methanol and lubricants to make model airplane (glow) fuel.
-jcr
Glow fuel is Nitromethane mixed with a lubricant such as Castor or Synthetic oil.
Actually, it's a nitro/alcohol mix, with the nitro being anywhere from 5% to 50% or more.
-jcr
In the united states at least, the drive behind mandatory public schooling was a reaction to the civil war. Greeley was very up-front about the "benefit" of indoctrination.
-jcr
where the student can be indoctrinated and turned into a consumer.
Becoming a consumer is incidental. The purpose of public schooling is to train children to be docile and to look to authority to take care of them.
-jcr
It is precisely because of misanthropes like yourself that it is not wise to disarm the population. Do you often wish great harm on the people around you?
-jcr
I'll consider your actions as unauthorized access of my computer systems, which is a federal felony and call the police immediately myself.
Another charge that probably applies is "conspiracy to deprive of a constitutional right under color of authority".
-jcr
There was a time when you got CANED for even breathing out of turn.
There was also a time when the majority of the people on earth were slaves. What's your point?
-jcr
Keep telling yourself that if you get mugged of have to confront a burglar in your own home.
-jcr
It does not follow that because India has these problems today, that you always will. There are many historical examples of countries raising their standard of living from near-starvation levels. For a nearby example, look at China: tens of millions killed by famine in the 1950s and 1960s, and having an economic explosion today.
-jcr
I meant if I had it tucked into my belt (yes stupid way to carry a gun), or in a holster, you know I'd get the 3rd degree.
It's sad for you that you live in a country which has stupidly decided to endanger its citizens by denying your right to self-defense, but your attempt to rationalize one violation of rights with an example of another violation of rights (that you seem to think is just fine and dandy) doesn't support your position.
-jcr
Temporarily confiscating the phone and tampering with its contents are two very different actions. If you can't tell the difference, then you urgently need a refresher course in ethics.
-jcr
By your logic I should be able to carry a gun around downtown, after all I want to, and it doesn't disrupt anybody, and it's "nobody else's goddamned business"
Until and unless you brandish your weapon and threaten people around you then yes, carrying a gun is your own business. Next question?
-jcr
You realise that technically, that's a felony, right? That's tampering with a computer system, and I'd like to see you cool your heels in jail for a bit to teach you to respect other people's property, you snotty git.
-jcr
Who exactly needs a cellphone at school?
What does need have to do with it? If a kid wants to carry anything with him to school that's legal to posess, and doesn't disrupt the class, it's nobody else's goddamned business. The school's entire legitimate prerogative here is to require the kid to turn it off during class.
-jcr
Guess again, counselor. You don't "lose" your rights because they're violated.
-jcr
Yes, it certainly is. Kids, if any person demands to examine the contents of your cell phone, tell him to get a warrant. Call your parents, call the local press, and call a lawyer.
-jcr
Moving a running instance of an OS from one host to another is a great thing for servers, of course, but consider what it can mean for client workstations as well.
Work on your laptop during your commute. When you get to the office, just close it, and have your desktop system mount the laptop as an external drive. Wake up your virtual machine on the desktop system. All your apps, your work in progress, etc, are all just as they were when you closed that lid, and the apps just get an event to tell them that the display configuration has changed. Away from home? Borrow a machine, and copy your VM image from a server at your office. Work on it, and then sync it back to the server when you're done.
Just like virtual memory, just like multi-user, multi-tasking, and multi-threading, all of these things that we think of as server technologies can have a major impact on personal computers as well.
-jcr
Remember that OS/2 was part and parcel of a strategy to supersede the IBM PC's ISA/DOS standard with MicroChannel and a new operating system. IBM didn't like the fact that Compaq, HP, et all were making more money than they were with PC clones, so they took their best shot at killing off the system they'd started. Basically, they were trying to correct the monumental screw-up they'd made in letting MS sell DOS separately.
-jcr
Yes, when MS got complaints from both users, they would rush to reconsider.
Not MS, but the third-party developers. Especially the people writing vertical-market apps and in-house custom apps.
-jcr
Apple will talk about their next OS at the forthcoming WWDC. It's what they've always done.
Actually, I've been to one WWDC where they only talked about Panther, which had just been released. It was way too early to have anything at all to say about Tiger.
-jcr
Maybe it will move some of the political edit wars off of Wikipedia.
-jcr
Eh... How many lumps do you want?
-jcr