WHAT??? The Novell guys origionally tried to squash the SCO lawsuit because they believed that they still owned the copyright to the source code. The origional and first amended copies of the contract spelled it out that way, it was only a second amended copy from several years later that some mid level exec signed that the copyright was signed over (somebody at SCO pulled a smart one there, it probably never even went by a lawyer for Novell). Novell doesn't even think they have a copy of the second amended copy, but they did verify that SCO's copy was legit and signed by an authorized representitive of the corporation.
Not only that but Novell does AD correctly =)
Novell's SSO product is by FAR the best in existance, for large corp's that need SSO they have two options, buy from Novell, or roll their own with all the cost and complexity that entails.
Oh yeah and the number one thing Ximian did for me was not OSS, Ximian connector with Evolution was THE way to use the Exchange boxes from Linux at my last job. Just hope that product doesn't disapear into the product killer that is Novell.
If the providers cared they could actually map an area for pretty accurate maps of coverage zones. There is a company called wireless valley that maps a VERY good although terribly expensive package for doing just that. Then again it would probably cost way more to get a competent person to operate the software then it could possibly be worth to them.
Here in NE Ohio between my father and I we have used all of the major cellular companies. Verizon has shit for voice quality (I might blame it on the phone but we've had 4 different sets from 3 manufacturers), AT&T I couldn't be happier with (and their coverage KILLS anyone else, I have used my phone from coast to coast and in some pretty damn remote areas like on Mt. Whitney Calif, The Grand Canyon, etc, finally Nextel is fine so long as you are in a major metro area or never get off the highway but because they have no analog backfill don't expect to get a signal in the boonies (or even the outskirts of the Cleveland/Akron metroplex in my case). Oh yeah the only reason I put up with Virizon? Price, $80/month for unlimited anytime minutes =) My dad and I both use up more minutes then even the jumbo plans that many carriers offer for well over $100 and none of them have reasonable per minute charges if you go over.
lack of numberic keypad makes it WAY too slow for real heavy duty use, add in the fact that there is no symbolic logic package for a PDA that I am aware of and you can't compete with calculators like this. (btw the Ti-89 is basically Maple in firmware, Ti hired the guys behind Maple to write all the software for it). IF there were a symbolic logic app for Palm or another PDA then it might compete, but you would still have to deal with the slow input, and I can guarentee the app would not be free.
Yep, any calculator that can do symbolic inegration is good enough for me, if I really need more speed then it's time to break out the laptop and Maple/Mathcad/Mathimatica =) I'm partial to the Ti-89 but that's because I started with a Ti-80 and progressed up with their line, to a 82, then to the much nicer 85, and finally to the 89 when I hit calc.
MIR was always planned to be decomissioned by ploping it into the ocean, therefore not permenant, ISS is too large to be deorbited, so even if it eventually becomes space debris it is in fact the first permenant extraterran habitat (btw skylab predates MIR although of course it was not up nearly as long as MIR (ok not by a longshot, but it WAS occupied by multiple crews independandtly arriving from earth over a period of time))
That is basically correct for the immediate future, then again my graphics card has many times more ram then my first PC and I use it to the max all the time. Current PC's generally ship with half a gig of ram, doubling every 18 months that means the average retail pc will exceed 4GB in less than 5 years, not tomorrow but not so far off either. Besides it doesn't cost Joe User all that much for the extra silicon and keeps those of us who do use the stuff from having to pay "workstation" markups like those Sun used to command (hmmm, ~$60K for a 2cpu workstation with 12GB of ram, soon I will be able to get more performance and the same amount of ram for well under $10K)
Not only that but x86-64 gets rid of most of the really annoying parts of x86 anyways. There are more registers, they are more sanely layed out, and there are multiple sets of them available. All the people moaning about the cruft build up of x86 living on haven't looked at what AMD did with x86-64. If they are capable of understanding then they should go and look at the AMD whitepapers, if they aren't then they should stop whining because it doesn't effect them anyways =)
What you want the money back so it can be wasted on a couple more high tech "stealth" bombers that aren't?? Look at it in historic terms, as a percentage of GPD the only time the US has spent as much on exploration as previous empires (going back to early Egypt) was during the Apollo program. The men and women who gave their lives to space exploration would hate to hear you say their lives were wasted and that the things they spent their lives on were worthless. Also the ISS has kept quite a number of Russian rocket scientists busy, if for nothing else than that it is a good use of money, I would much rather they be spending their time on "pointless" things like the ISS then building better rockets for Iran, N. Korea, and all of the other misfit nations that want em.
Anything that needs to access files larger than 4GB or which can use more than 4GB of ram will benifit. Desktop programs that fall in this category include anything dealing with video, people dealing with multitracking audio, CAD/CAM, rendering, and others. It also makes software design somewhat simpler because you don't have to worry about paging nearly as much with a 64bit systems.
Intel actually is TRYING to break from x86 with the Itanium line, they invested Billions and billions of dollars to do so. They had a hardware x86 emultator tacked on that is so anemic that it is outperformed by a chip two generations older at the same clock speed (the P3 running at Itanium speeds trounces it for legacy 32bit code), throw in the fact that it is WAY behind the current 32bit chips in clock speed and you get a not-so-impressive product if the majority of your code is legacy. Then they decided their software tech was good enough that they could get better performance out of a software translator, they did, but only about 30% faster average then the hadware unit, still too slow. Compare this to AMD with the Athlon64/Opteron which runs 32bit code at least as fast clock for clock as the previous generation (ususally faster due to larger cache), and is running at about the same clock speeds. On the software emulation as part of a platform switch, it has been done twice, once with Apple and the 68k->PPC transition (quite sucessfull), and once by DEC and the Alpha team with FX!32 which was a software translation layer that would dynamically recompile x86 NT4 programs to native Alpha code, it didn't work all that well despite the Apha being vastly superior to anything Intel made at the time.
Nothing other than building the ISS, hmm the first permenant habitat off this little rock, seems like a really BIG nothing to me. Also Hubble would have been a complete loss without the shuttle or something like it. There are lots of things that can be done with dumb boom sticks, and there are other things that require humans, I like to use the right tool for the right job.
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking, remote monitoring. My dad works in industrial chemcials (mostly prepaint) and I remember spending $5K+ for an enclosure to house a $500 monitoring PC, the reason being that it had to allow probe leads in while keeping pickling house gasses out (pH of 5 or lower). If the probes could have been connected wirelessly with the PC outside the pickling room the total system cost would have been considerably lower.
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Usually it means a watchdog timer ticked off without being cleared. At this point the secondary or tertiary systems are given controll and the failed system loads its software fresh from firmware and comes back up to speed on the current input data, depending on the design of the system controll may be handed back to the freshly rebooted system or it may become the new secondary/tertiary. Reboots for all software systems are averaging 36 seconds per flight (probably meaning one reboot per two flights). So one redundant system is encountering a non-recoverable error per two flights, not too bad but not stellar. This is however a great improvement over some previous system where the HARDWARE had problem rates almost this high (F-16 is what my memory is throwing at me, I believe a targeting related chip had an error that would cause problems pretty regularly so rather than create a new chip they just made it 4X redundant rather than the standard 3X)
The MILITARY doesn't decide who or when to kill, that is in the hands of the civilian at the top of the command chain and his staff of advisors. The military just executes the orders to the best of their ability given the resources provided.
It's been true for some time that the thermal junction between the top of the chip and the heatsink isn't nearly as important as the internal heat disipation (sp?) of the chip. While a modern chip with a decent heatsink can feel merely warm to the touch the internal gate temperature can be aproaching bounderies where the thermal stress is actually damaging gates. This is one of several barriers keeping 3D memory chips from becoming reality (the other major one is cost of manufacturing a working chip of multiple layers, but even pie in the sky lab samples have problems because of heat disipation from the core of the stack.)
They HAVE to let you get a dish so long as you have an exclusive use area (read balcony or the like). See FCC rules and Section 207 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Does it have an equivilant to Tivo's season pass? This is my favorite Tivo feature, tell it what shows you want to watch and it will record the entire season, including multiple shows where it will pick up conflicting shows at a later time if possible, otherwise it will warn you and let you chose which one to select. It also deals with schedule changes quite well (other than those occouring from realtime events like emergencies, late ending sporting events, or the like)
Not true, 3DS MAX has an easy to learn yet powerfull interface. A friend of mine was using it to make commercials back when I was in college. He had reverse kinematics, extrusion effects, particle effects, etc. All of that was simple enough to do that after watching him for 5 minutes I could have picked it up (though I wouldn't have been anywhere near as good as he was). The coolest thing from my perspective was the way he got compensated for the commercial, a new workstation, 5.1 surround system, 2 Pro VCR's, and a commercial MAX liscense =)
It's almost impossible to fit a bootable linux kernal into a single floppy, that's why distro's with decent hardware support have bootsets that span 3+ floppies. Also floppies are SLOW, flash drives can copy a floppies worth of information in a fraction of a second, a floppy will take upwards of a minute+ to copy that data. Also since I and many others already have flash cards for other devices it's often MUCH cheaper than $32 to get an adapter to work with our laptops to read the flash media of choice.
CF is unlimited! CF storage is only limited by the filesystem used on it since it is basically ATAPI with different kinds of pins. In fact you can make a CF card work with an IDE adaptor just by knowing how the pinouts matchup. CF is also the first to get new denser storage technology and generally the cheapest per MB. Unless you have something that really demands the smaller form factor (a watch?) I can't see the advantage of any of the other flash technologies for storage (for other I/O devices SDIO is superior obviously).
WHAT??? your clock better be more accurate than ms's or your PC isn't going to be doing JACK. Linux IP stack is accurate to hundredths of a millisecond, although at that point you are measuring delays in packet processing in the NIC and kernal =) Trust me on our Gig-E network all the windows servers show 1ms to anywhere in the LAN, but Linux can tell me the real times and I can often tell how many switches I am going through =)
Who cares, this isn't a $200 Calc text, it's ~$15 at most of the major online retailers. It's kind of like cliff's notes or dummies books, enough to get you started but not something you learn everything you need from.
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WHAT??? The Novell guys origionally tried to squash the SCO lawsuit because they believed that they still owned the copyright to the source code. The origional and first amended copies of the contract spelled it out that way, it was only a second amended copy from several years later that some mid level exec signed that the copyright was signed over (somebody at SCO pulled a smart one there, it probably never even went by a lawyer for Novell). Novell doesn't even think they have a copy of the second amended copy, but they did verify that SCO's copy was legit and signed by an authorized representitive of the corporation.
Not only that but Novell does AD correctly =) Novell's SSO product is by FAR the best in existance, for large corp's that need SSO they have two options, buy from Novell, or roll their own with all the cost and complexity that entails. Oh yeah and the number one thing Ximian did for me was not OSS, Ximian connector with Evolution was THE way to use the Exchange boxes from Linux at my last job. Just hope that product doesn't disapear into the product killer that is Novell.
If the providers cared they could actually map an area for pretty accurate maps of coverage zones. There is a company called wireless valley that maps a VERY good although terribly expensive package for doing just that. Then again it would probably cost way more to get a competent person to operate the software then it could possibly be worth to them.
Here in NE Ohio between my father and I we have used all of the major cellular companies. Verizon has shit for voice quality (I might blame it on the phone but we've had 4 different sets from 3 manufacturers), AT&T I couldn't be happier with (and their coverage KILLS anyone else, I have used my phone from coast to coast and in some pretty damn remote areas like on Mt. Whitney Calif, The Grand Canyon, etc, finally Nextel is fine so long as you are in a major metro area or never get off the highway but because they have no analog backfill don't expect to get a signal in the boonies (or even the outskirts of the Cleveland/Akron metroplex in my case). Oh yeah the only reason I put up with Virizon? Price, $80/month for unlimited anytime minutes =) My dad and I both use up more minutes then even the jumbo plans that many carriers offer for well over $100 and none of them have reasonable per minute charges if you go over.
lack of numberic keypad makes it WAY too slow for real heavy duty use, add in the fact that there is no symbolic logic package for a PDA that I am aware of and you can't compete with calculators like this. (btw the Ti-89 is basically Maple in firmware, Ti hired the guys behind Maple to write all the software for it). IF there were a symbolic logic app for Palm or another PDA then it might compete, but you would still have to deal with the slow input, and I can guarentee the app would not be free.
Yep, any calculator that can do symbolic inegration is good enough for me, if I really need more speed then it's time to break out the laptop and Maple/Mathcad/Mathimatica =) I'm partial to the Ti-89 but that's because I started with a Ti-80 and progressed up with their line, to a 82, then to the much nicer 85, and finally to the 89 when I hit calc.
MIR was always planned to be decomissioned by ploping it into the ocean, therefore not permenant, ISS is too large to be deorbited, so even if it eventually becomes space debris it is in fact the first permenant extraterran habitat (btw skylab predates MIR although of course it was not up nearly as long as MIR (ok not by a longshot, but it WAS occupied by multiple crews independandtly arriving from earth over a period of time))
That is basically correct for the immediate future, then again my graphics card has many times more ram then my first PC and I use it to the max all the time. Current PC's generally ship with half a gig of ram, doubling every 18 months that means the average retail pc will exceed 4GB in less than 5 years, not tomorrow but not so far off either. Besides it doesn't cost Joe User all that much for the extra silicon and keeps those of us who do use the stuff from having to pay "workstation" markups like those Sun used to command (hmmm, ~$60K for a 2cpu workstation with 12GB of ram, soon I will be able to get more performance and the same amount of ram for well under $10K)
Not only that but x86-64 gets rid of most of the really annoying parts of x86 anyways. There are more registers, they are more sanely layed out, and there are multiple sets of them available. All the people moaning about the cruft build up of x86 living on haven't looked at what AMD did with x86-64. If they are capable of understanding then they should go and look at the AMD whitepapers, if they aren't then they should stop whining because it doesn't effect them anyways =)
What you want the money back so it can be wasted on a couple more high tech "stealth" bombers that aren't?? Look at it in historic terms, as a percentage of GPD the only time the US has spent as much on exploration as previous empires (going back to early Egypt) was during the Apollo program. The men and women who gave their lives to space exploration would hate to hear you say their lives were wasted and that the things they spent their lives on were worthless. Also the ISS has kept quite a number of Russian rocket scientists busy, if for nothing else than that it is a good use of money, I would much rather they be spending their time on "pointless" things like the ISS then building better rockets for Iran, N. Korea, and all of the other misfit nations that want em.
Anything that needs to access files larger than 4GB or which can use more than 4GB of ram will benifit. Desktop programs that fall in this category include anything dealing with video, people dealing with multitracking audio, CAD/CAM, rendering, and others. It also makes software design somewhat simpler because you don't have to worry about paging nearly as much with a 64bit systems.
Intel actually is TRYING to break from x86 with the Itanium line, they invested Billions and billions of dollars to do so. They had a hardware x86 emultator tacked on that is so anemic that it is outperformed by a chip two generations older at the same clock speed (the P3 running at Itanium speeds trounces it for legacy 32bit code), throw in the fact that it is WAY behind the current 32bit chips in clock speed and you get a not-so-impressive product if the majority of your code is legacy. Then they decided their software tech was good enough that they could get better performance out of a software translator, they did, but only about 30% faster average then the hadware unit, still too slow. Compare this to AMD with the Athlon64/Opteron which runs 32bit code at least as fast clock for clock as the previous generation (ususally faster due to larger cache), and is running at about the same clock speeds. On the software emulation as part of a platform switch, it has been done twice, once with Apple and the 68k->PPC transition (quite sucessfull), and once by DEC and the Alpha team with FX!32 which was a software translation layer that would dynamically recompile x86 NT4 programs to native Alpha code, it didn't work all that well despite the Apha being vastly superior to anything Intel made at the time.
Nothing other than building the ISS, hmm the first permenant habitat off this little rock, seems like a really BIG nothing to me. Also Hubble would have been a complete loss without the shuttle or something like it. There are lots of things that can be done with dumb boom sticks, and there are other things that require humans, I like to use the right tool for the right job.
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking, remote monitoring. My dad works in industrial chemcials (mostly prepaint) and I remember spending $5K+ for an enclosure to house a $500 monitoring PC, the reason being that it had to allow probe leads in while keeping pickling house gasses out (pH of 5 or lower). If the probes could have been connected wirelessly with the PC outside the pickling room the total system cost would have been considerably lower.
Usually it means a watchdog timer ticked off without being cleared. At this point the secondary or tertiary systems are given controll and the failed system loads its software fresh from firmware and comes back up to speed on the current input data, depending on the design of the system controll may be handed back to the freshly rebooted system or it may become the new secondary/tertiary. Reboots for all software systems are averaging 36 seconds per flight (probably meaning one reboot per two flights). So one redundant system is encountering a non-recoverable error per two flights, not too bad but not stellar. This is however a great improvement over some previous system where the HARDWARE had problem rates almost this high (F-16 is what my memory is throwing at me, I believe a targeting related chip had an error that would cause problems pretty regularly so rather than create a new chip they just made it 4X redundant rather than the standard 3X)
The MILITARY doesn't decide who or when to kill, that is in the hands of the civilian at the top of the command chain and his staff of advisors. The military just executes the orders to the best of their ability given the resources provided.
It's been true for some time that the thermal junction between the top of the chip and the heatsink isn't nearly as important as the internal heat disipation (sp?) of the chip. While a modern chip with a decent heatsink can feel merely warm to the touch the internal gate temperature can be aproaching bounderies where the thermal stress is actually damaging gates. This is one of several barriers keeping 3D memory chips from becoming reality (the other major one is cost of manufacturing a working chip of multiple layers, but even pie in the sky lab samples have problems because of heat disipation from the core of the stack.)
They HAVE to let you get a dish so long as you have an exclusive use area (read balcony or the like). See FCC rules and Section 207 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Does it have an equivilant to Tivo's season pass? This is my favorite Tivo feature, tell it what shows you want to watch and it will record the entire season, including multiple shows where it will pick up conflicting shows at a later time if possible, otherwise it will warn you and let you chose which one to select. It also deals with schedule changes quite well (other than those occouring from realtime events like emergencies, late ending sporting events, or the like)
Nope, because they are trade secrets source code to voting systems have been ruled to be off limits to FOIA requests =(
Not true, 3DS MAX has an easy to learn yet powerfull interface. A friend of mine was using it to make commercials back when I was in college. He had reverse kinematics, extrusion effects, particle effects, etc. All of that was simple enough to do that after watching him for 5 minutes I could have picked it up (though I wouldn't have been anywhere near as good as he was). The coolest thing from my perspective was the way he got compensated for the commercial, a new workstation, 5.1 surround system, 2 Pro VCR's, and a commercial MAX liscense =)
It's almost impossible to fit a bootable linux kernal into a single floppy, that's why distro's with decent hardware support have bootsets that span 3+ floppies. Also floppies are SLOW, flash drives can copy a floppies worth of information in a fraction of a second, a floppy will take upwards of a minute+ to copy that data. Also since I and many others already have flash cards for other devices it's often MUCH cheaper than $32 to get an adapter to work with our laptops to read the flash media of choice.
CF is unlimited!
CF storage is only limited by the filesystem used on it since it is basically ATAPI with different kinds of pins. In fact you can make a CF card work with an IDE adaptor just by knowing how the pinouts matchup. CF is also the first to get new denser storage technology and generally the cheapest per MB. Unless you have something that really demands the smaller form factor (a watch?) I can't see the advantage of any of the other flash technologies for storage (for other I/O devices SDIO is superior obviously).
WHAT??? your clock better be more accurate than ms's or your PC isn't going to be doing JACK. Linux IP stack is accurate to hundredths of a millisecond, although at that point you are measuring delays in packet processing in the NIC and kernal =) Trust me on our Gig-E network all the windows servers show 1ms to anywhere in the LAN, but Linux can tell me the real times and I can often tell how many switches I am going through =)
Who cares, this isn't a $200 Calc text, it's ~$15 at most of the major online retailers. It's kind of like cliff's notes or dummies books, enough to get you started but not something you learn everything you need from.