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Let me tell you it isn't a myth if you are doing upper level math on a graphing calculator. Doing 3D plots will often take a Ti-89 a minute or two to generate and rotation is on the order of 2fps. Also doing symbolic solving for complex series can often take a couple minutes. That's why I eventually turned to either Maple or a Ti-89 simulator running on my laptop (same great interface and programs but at 800MHz instead of 8 =) With a numeric keypad it was about as fast as entry on the calculator (improved text entry for variable names with slower entry for special symbols because you had to point and click em). The good thing about the slow CPU was that I had to change batteries twice a semester (before midterms and finals, don't want dead batteries during an exam!) vs recharging daily for my laptop.
Exactly. In fact if the credit card companies were serious about security all cards would have had a photo on them a decade ago or longer when CitiCorp and a couple others started using the tech. That way even the proverbial high school drop out would have little trouble spotting a stolen card (more high tech theft like imprinting the number on a card with the thiefs pic would still work but it would significantly raise the bar) that combined with one time use online numbers ala Amex Blue would get rid of probably 90+% of ID theft.
The main reason that Ethylene Glycol is toxic is that a metabolic byproduct is glycoaldehyde, a close relative of Formaldehyde, the acidosis is bad but would rarely be fatal on its own. The treatment for Ethylene Glycol poisoning is Ethanol ingestion because "Ethanol will competitively inhibit alcohol dehydrogenase", so if someone ingests EG give them a glass of Vodka and take em to the ER for observation.
Apple has learned quite a bit about marketing since the days when they let IBM eat their lunch by not persuing the business market. Ever since Jobs returned to the helm Apple seems to be all about a better product for a slightly higher price that is packaged and marketed well. And judging by their financial performance this has been a fairly sucessful track for a company with such a small piece of their primary market.
The system IS heavy but the main reason for the bulk is the fuel necessary for repeated firings. As you can see in this diagram (or more precisly the full size copy on Boings site which requires free registration) the actual laser mechanism only takes up about as much space as 4 rows of seating in a commercial airliner, however the fuel takes up over 1/3rd of the plane with 1/3rd being the forward section containing flight and battle crews and the remainder being misc systems and some empty space. Btw the initial plan a couple years ago was to have enough fuel for 150 shots onboard each plane and to have 3 planes per field to allow for around the clock overlapping coverage.
3: I can legally rip them at a high-bitrate in whatever the common format is.
That format has been and will continue to be MP3 until such time that storage makes compression irrelevant (another couple years) for everything but the cheapest portables. I've been using LAME VBR mp3's since 1997 and since they pass a double blind sound test with my good equipment on 90+% of my collection I see no reason to switch to anything else. I've tested MP3Pro, AAC, ATRAC high quality, and Vorbis and none of them have any overall advantage over MP3 (they all have some weakness, and to my ears they are all roughly the same but for different pieces of the content), then again I think the studio setup makes more difference in quality for most recordings.
Ah, but the grandparents point is that given the same number of CPU's and the same amount of agregate bandwidth the same task can be performed no matter if the servers are at the edge or the core. He asserts that core bandwidth is super cheap and so agregate bandwidth is achievable at the core. This ignores a large part of Akami's business model which is that they don't pay ISP's for edge bandwidth! I know that my ISP was happy to get an Akami cluster on their LAN because it saved them peering cost for Akami hosted high bandwidth content that their customers were viewing. Heck I don't think they even charged them for power and AC =)
Nah, because when I switch to broadband I'm dumping my landline (like many people do) so a fax modem won't do me much good. Instead use the broadband and an email to fax gateway =) Sure it costs a couple cents a page but it's cheaper then a landlines per month charges.
First off, I have the ability to fix my own car. A friend and I did a frame up restoration on a 1964 Corvette Stingray convertible, absolutly beutiful car. However my current car is a 99 Ford Taurus with Duretec engine, this car is already at ~160K miles and it hasn't had a single thing done to it other than routine maintenance (breaks, tires, fluids, filters). For a daily driver I'll take the Taurus any day over the Vette because I don't HAVE to work on it. I expect the Taurus will need a tuneup at around 200K miles and will probably go till around 300K if I choose to drive it that long. Second, I didn't call anyone a ricer, I said that people who whine about technology making cars impossible to work on need to either study up or give their car to someone who can because there are kids still in high school who are doing all kinds of work on computer filled cars. And finally while I might tweak my home computer I don't expect most laymen to be able to do it, especially not safely without some reasearch.
While many American's would make fun of most things British I doubt any smart ones would knock Rover. The Range Rover was THE offroad vehicle around the world until the Toyota Land Cruiser became more reliable and slightly more luxurious at the low end.
Because 51% of vehicles sold the last few year were light trucks or SUV's which are not regulated as to their fleet average fuel economy?!? Yep I bet that's it. If you look at the fleet average for all regulated vehicle classes you would see that we are doing better all the time.
We all do. Because cars with more advanced engine controll computers will get better gas milage and pollute less, likewise with lighter body panels. Also better airbags (dual stage and even more advanced) are less likely to kill small women and children when they discharge in a low speed crash. Whining because mechanics have to be smarter isn't the answer, training people who used to work in a manual but skilled labor to do a manual, skilled, and knowledge based job is. So your average backyard tinkerer has less chance to fix his own vehicle, so what (and besides this is BS, look at the import racing scene where kids are able to modify the heck out of these computer filled cars). The only thing I don't get is the $3K headlights, if they were really that expensive they would be a seperate option on the car, it's just a huge markup for the manufacturer because they probably have patents on the design.
That's funny because as I mentioned the other day. I've had zero problems with ATTWS's TDMA and AMPS coverage but I hear TONS of negative comments from users of their GSM service. Now this may be an implementation problem for ATT rather than an inherent problem with GSM but it proves at least that the tech isn't foolproof.
Hell, even without tombstoning or data recovery facilities it's likely that the data still lingers around, usually on backup tape, and with a system as distributed as Googles I wouldn't be at all suprised if it takes low priority messages like deletes a while to travel to all systems holding data.
I trust Google as it stands today, but after the IPO I will trust them as far as I can throw a server farm. Any public company has a fudicial responsibility to their investors, and if times get tough or the shareholders scream enough then it is often difficult for even a well meaning management team to keep the customers interest in focus. That's why I'm not so hot on a Google IPO, they do well as a private company and I trust them a lot more that way. Why would they need an IPO anyways, they have all the money they need to implement any new ideas and none of the founders has said they are itching to cash out (and even if they are the remaining partners could leverage the corporate profits to buy out their share)
The problem with that is Voltage dropoff over distance from the battery block and different amperage needs for each module forcing you to calculate these things. Self powered blocks eliminate those problems in exchange for some slightly more difficult troubleshooting (read as: better test your blocks before starting on a new project)
Why is allowing someone who is not a high priest in the holy order of programmers to get a little electronics learning so stupid? Especially since these are made to teach the art to those who don't even qualify as acolytes in training to begin their studies. Every learning tool has its place. Just like I learned the basics of a transmission from building one of the bigger Technics sets I expect my son will learn the basics of electronics from something like this.
Hmm, I wonder if there are any backdoors left by the programmers. Like say if certain attractive females activate the program they might get directed to the dorm of the programmer/malicious operator instead of their own place. Now THAT would be using technology to your advantage!
(*no I don't really advocate taking advantage of annebriated members of the opposite sex, it's a joke, laugh*)
Actually there IS a motive to allowing things to fall into the public domain, knowledge is NOT a zero sum game, and in fact it is very synergistic. Disney is one of the biggest lobbiests for extended copyright yet they of all companies have profited tremendously from public domain works. Almost all of the "classic" Disney animations are based off of creative works in the public domain. Disney would likely have tons of material to work with if stories from the first half of this century were in the public domain, yet their protectionist attitude towards the mouse has blinded them to this fact. Hording of information stifles creativity, this is exactly what the framers were trying to stop, yet Congress has managed to turn their simple decree into a system that accomplishes the exact opposite of their intentions.
Re:Gave Nulloft/Justin no credit
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They didn't remove the copyright info, they copied it verbatim as the GPL licensing files. This is all they are required to do. The GPL does not have an advertising clause and in fact is incompatible with the "old" BSD license with the advertising clause.
Acutally Congress has siphoned off large amounts of revenue from the USPTO for ages, regulations be damned. There was some recent talk about eliminating this practice so that USPTO could actually afford to hire competent and numerous patent examiners but AFAIK this hasn't happened yet. Here is a quote from the international trademark association from 2002:
"Last year, approximately $44 million of USPTO revenue was diverted. The year before that, the final number was $116 million." link
Um, this isn't about FAT12 or FAT16, it's about specific extensions added for DOS style file name for FAT32. Basically the patent covers the means of embedding the DOS style handle into the FS block data in such a way as to allow backwards compatability while still allowing apps that use the correct API to get the real long file name. For more info see this wikipedia article. The most damning thing to MS is that they released beta code for Win95 more than 2 years before filing the first of the patents. Patent law clearly states that you have no more than 364 days after first publicly demonstrating a device or idea to patent it.
Well I know that Case Western has been busted at least once in the past for goosing the numbers on a similar "study" about most wired campuses. To be fair they HAVE put a lot of money into networking since then. For instance they have Gbit to every drop on campus. Another high ranker is University of Akron, and unless your major is Polymer Chemistry or one of a few related disciplines it probably isn't on your list of top schools. The only reason UofA is on the list is that they are near Cisco-Aironet and so they got a bunch of equipment and support setting up their wireless network.
Yep, TDMA/AMPS. Like I said I have had great coverage nationwide because any area without TDMA coverage is going to be backfilled by AMPS. Sure AMPS kills you battery because it uses over a Watt vs a couple hundred mW for digital but at least I get reliable service. With Verizon I will have 3 out of 5 bar service and suddenly get "Signal faded call lost" on a bright sunny day! My experience with Cingular was even worse, not so sure i'm happy that they bought ATTWS. That and the local ATTWS store has always been fairly prompt in providing service vs the 90 minute wait to pick up a repaired phone at Verizon.
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Let me tell you it isn't a myth if you are doing upper level math on a graphing calculator. Doing 3D plots will often take a Ti-89 a minute or two to generate and rotation is on the order of 2fps. Also doing symbolic solving for complex series can often take a couple minutes. That's why I eventually turned to either Maple or a Ti-89 simulator running on my laptop (same great interface and programs but at 800MHz instead of 8 =) With a numeric keypad it was about as fast as entry on the calculator (improved text entry for variable names with slower entry for special symbols because you had to point and click em). The good thing about the slow CPU was that I had to change batteries twice a semester (before midterms and finals, don't want dead batteries during an exam!) vs recharging daily for my laptop.
Exactly. In fact if the credit card companies were serious about security all cards would have had a photo on them a decade ago or longer when CitiCorp and a couple others started using the tech. That way even the proverbial high school drop out would have little trouble spotting a stolen card (more high tech theft like imprinting the number on a card with the thiefs pic would still work but it would significantly raise the bar) that combined with one time use online numbers ala Amex Blue would get rid of probably 90+% of ID theft.
The main reason that Ethylene Glycol is toxic is that a metabolic byproduct is glycoaldehyde, a close relative of Formaldehyde, the acidosis is bad but would rarely be fatal on its own. The treatment for Ethylene Glycol poisoning is Ethanol ingestion because "Ethanol will competitively inhibit alcohol dehydrogenase", so if someone ingests EG give them a glass of Vodka and take em to the ER for observation.
Apple has learned quite a bit about marketing since the days when they let IBM eat their lunch by not persuing the business market. Ever since Jobs returned to the helm Apple seems to be all about a better product for a slightly higher price that is packaged and marketed well. And judging by their financial performance this has been a fairly sucessful track for a company with such a small piece of their primary market.
The system IS heavy but the main reason for the bulk is the fuel necessary for repeated firings. As you can see in this diagram (or more precisly the full size copy on Boings site which requires free registration) the actual laser mechanism only takes up about as much space as 4 rows of seating in a commercial airliner, however the fuel takes up over 1/3rd of the plane with 1/3rd being the forward section containing flight and battle crews and the remainder being misc systems and some empty space. Btw the initial plan a couple years ago was to have enough fuel for 150 shots onboard each plane and to have 3 planes per field to allow for around the clock overlapping coverage.
3: I can legally rip them at a high-bitrate in whatever the common format is.
That format has been and will continue to be MP3 until such time that storage makes compression irrelevant (another couple years) for everything but the cheapest portables. I've been using LAME VBR mp3's since 1997 and since they pass a double blind sound test with my good equipment on 90+% of my collection I see no reason to switch to anything else. I've tested MP3Pro, AAC, ATRAC high quality, and Vorbis and none of them have any overall advantage over MP3 (they all have some weakness, and to my ears they are all roughly the same but for different pieces of the content), then again I think the studio setup makes more difference in quality for most recordings.
Ah, but the grandparents point is that given the same number of CPU's and the same amount of agregate bandwidth the same task can be performed no matter if the servers are at the edge or the core. He asserts that core bandwidth is super cheap and so agregate bandwidth is achievable at the core. This ignores a large part of Akami's business model which is that they don't pay ISP's for edge bandwidth! I know that my ISP was happy to get an Akami cluster on their LAN because it saved them peering cost for Akami hosted high bandwidth content that their customers were viewing. Heck I don't think they even charged them for power and AC =)
Wrong, if you are required to file with the SEC ALL info in the report is public knowledge.
Nah, because when I switch to broadband I'm dumping my landline (like many people do) so a fax modem won't do me much good. Instead use the broadband and an email to fax gateway =) Sure it costs a couple cents a page but it's cheaper then a landlines per month charges.
First off, I have the ability to fix my own car. A friend and I did a frame up restoration on a 1964 Corvette Stingray convertible, absolutly beutiful car. However my current car is a 99 Ford Taurus with Duretec engine, this car is already at ~160K miles and it hasn't had a single thing done to it other than routine maintenance (breaks, tires, fluids, filters). For a daily driver I'll take the Taurus any day over the Vette because I don't HAVE to work on it. I expect the Taurus will need a tuneup at around 200K miles and will probably go till around 300K if I choose to drive it that long. Second, I didn't call anyone a ricer, I said that people who whine about technology making cars impossible to work on need to either study up or give their car to someone who can because there are kids still in high school who are doing all kinds of work on computer filled cars. And finally while I might tweak my home computer I don't expect most laymen to be able to do it, especially not safely without some reasearch.
While many American's would make fun of most things British I doubt any smart ones would knock Rover. The Range Rover was THE offroad vehicle around the world until the Toyota Land Cruiser became more reliable and slightly more luxurious at the low end.
Because 51% of vehicles sold the last few year were light trucks or SUV's which are not regulated as to their fleet average fuel economy?!? Yep I bet that's it. If you look at the fleet average for all regulated vehicle classes you would see that we are doing better all the time.
We all do. Because cars with more advanced engine controll computers will get better gas milage and pollute less, likewise with lighter body panels. Also better airbags (dual stage and even more advanced) are less likely to kill small women and children when they discharge in a low speed crash. Whining because mechanics have to be smarter isn't the answer, training people who used to work in a manual but skilled labor to do a manual, skilled, and knowledge based job is. So your average backyard tinkerer has less chance to fix his own vehicle, so what (and besides this is BS, look at the import racing scene where kids are able to modify the heck out of these computer filled cars). The only thing I don't get is the $3K headlights, if they were really that expensive they would be a seperate option on the car, it's just a huge markup for the manufacturer because they probably have patents on the design.
That's funny because as I mentioned the other day. I've had zero problems with ATTWS's TDMA and AMPS coverage but I hear TONS of negative comments from users of their GSM service. Now this may be an implementation problem for ATT rather than an inherent problem with GSM but it proves at least that the tech isn't foolproof.
Hell, even without tombstoning or data recovery facilities it's likely that the data still lingers around, usually on backup tape, and with a system as distributed as Googles I wouldn't be at all suprised if it takes low priority messages like deletes a while to travel to all systems holding data.
I trust Google as it stands today, but after the IPO I will trust them as far as I can throw a server farm. Any public company has a fudicial responsibility to their investors, and if times get tough or the shareholders scream enough then it is often difficult for even a well meaning management team to keep the customers interest in focus. That's why I'm not so hot on a Google IPO, they do well as a private company and I trust them a lot more that way. Why would they need an IPO anyways, they have all the money they need to implement any new ideas and none of the founders has said they are itching to cash out (and even if they are the remaining partners could leverage the corporate profits to buy out their share)
The problem with that is Voltage dropoff over distance from the battery block and different amperage needs for each module forcing you to calculate these things. Self powered blocks eliminate those problems in exchange for some slightly more difficult troubleshooting (read as: better test your blocks before starting on a new project)
Why is allowing someone who is not a high priest in the holy order of programmers to get a little electronics learning so stupid? Especially since these are made to teach the art to those who don't even qualify as acolytes in training to begin their studies. Every learning tool has its place. Just like I learned the basics of a transmission from building one of the bigger Technics sets I expect my son will learn the basics of electronics from something like this.
Hmm, I wonder if there are any backdoors left by the programmers. Like say if certain attractive females activate the program they might get directed to the dorm of the programmer/malicious operator instead of their own place. Now THAT would be using technology to your advantage!
(*no I don't really advocate taking advantage of annebriated members of the opposite sex, it's a joke, laugh*)
Actually there IS a motive to allowing things to fall into the public domain, knowledge is NOT a zero sum game, and in fact it is very synergistic. Disney is one of the biggest lobbiests for extended copyright yet they of all companies have profited tremendously from public domain works. Almost all of the "classic" Disney animations are based off of creative works in the public domain. Disney would likely have tons of material to work with if stories from the first half of this century were in the public domain, yet their protectionist attitude towards the mouse has blinded them to this fact. Hording of information stifles creativity, this is exactly what the framers were trying to stop, yet Congress has managed to turn their simple decree into a system that accomplishes the exact opposite of their intentions.
They didn't remove the copyright info, they copied it verbatim as the GPL licensing files. This is all they are required to do. The GPL does not have an advertising clause and in fact is incompatible with the "old" BSD license with the advertising clause.
Acutally Congress has siphoned off large amounts of revenue from the USPTO for ages, regulations be damned. There was some recent talk about eliminating this practice so that USPTO could actually afford to hire competent and numerous patent examiners but AFAIK this hasn't happened yet. Here is a quote from the international trademark association from 2002:
"Last year, approximately $44 million of USPTO revenue was diverted. The year before that, the final number was $116 million." link
Um, this isn't about FAT12 or FAT16, it's about specific extensions added for DOS style file name for FAT32. Basically the patent covers the means of embedding the DOS style handle into the FS block data in such a way as to allow backwards compatability while still allowing apps that use the correct API to get the real long file name. For more info see this wikipedia article. The most damning thing to MS is that they released beta code for Win95 more than 2 years before filing the first of the patents. Patent law clearly states that you have no more than 364 days after first publicly demonstrating a device or idea to patent it.
Well I know that Case Western has been busted at least once in the past for goosing the numbers on a similar "study" about most wired campuses. To be fair they HAVE put a lot of money into networking since then. For instance they have Gbit to every drop on campus. Another high ranker is University of Akron, and unless your major is Polymer Chemistry or one of a few related disciplines it probably isn't on your list of top schools. The only reason UofA is on the list is that they are near Cisco-Aironet and so they got a bunch of equipment and support setting up their wireless network.
Yep, TDMA/AMPS. Like I said I have had great coverage nationwide because any area without TDMA coverage is going to be backfilled by AMPS. Sure AMPS kills you battery because it uses over a Watt vs a couple hundred mW for digital but at least I get reliable service. With Verizon I will have 3 out of 5 bar service and suddenly get "Signal faded call lost" on a bright sunny day! My experience with Cingular was even worse, not so sure i'm happy that they bought ATTWS. That and the local ATTWS store has always been fairly prompt in providing service vs the 90 minute wait to pick up a repaired phone at Verizon.