If you are going to look directly into Wikipedia, the Academy of Science recommends you hold a piece of cardboard over your eyes to avoid brain damage.
Eclipse on a Pentium 3 with only 1GB of memory may be slow, but you can spend the extra time racing tortoises, or doing the things students normally do.
Use a Cray for the serious lifting. Use the laptop as a dumb terminal.
Or get an iWatch, and be the dumb terminal yourself.
The real question is "Is using different frequencies for forward and reverse path such a problem?" to which the answer is, "No. In many ways it is an advantage".
This may be a solution, but it is not clear there is actually a problem it solves.
Does this enable more total data to be transmitted where there are multiple users in a band? When they are using spread spectrum and reception conditions are poor, and one or both ends are moving through buildings or spaces occupied by reflective surfaces?
I am sure someone will buy the patent, but much less sure it will turn out to be value for money.
I do not want this deal - my embroidery software requires XP, and the sewing machine will not work with newer software. There is no way I would replace my old "Made in Switzerland" machine, with a modern "made in Korea" one.
Maybe companies will start hiding the profit by selling paperclips to themselves...
The car industry has been doing this for almost 100 years (with engines). If they can't be stopped, It is a safe bet that shuffling bits around will be harder to tax.
This is what is known in the trade as "throwing a sop to the voters".
The tax code is for funding the government, not for social engineering.
Maybe in America, but here in Europe, tax is seen as the wheel to steer the ship of state, and social engineering is seen as important to maintaining a state in which the police do not shoot (many) people, and they don't (often) shoot back.
Someone on $2 a day is outside the monetary economy. They do not pay for food and shelter with money. p.
Do they need surface tablets? Hell, no - they need large format Android phones.
In the days of Fidonet, I had a BBS, and quite a few of the people I communicated with were Russian. Several complained that even one spelling mistake was a problem for them, because they had to look up every single word in the dicitonary. Mistakes like lose/loose are totally mystifying if you don't understand what you are translating.
It made me try much harder with spelling, and rely less on automatic spelling corrections, and also gave me a new insight into the Bible!
The 9-11 attacks killed a piddling amount of people compared to road traffic accidents, or even people shot by the various US police forces. Probably construction and farm accidents both killed more people. I don't have the data.
The reality is that terrorists are a tiny proportion of the threats to the average American.
There are only two possibilities:
a) The European view: Americans are a bunch of spineless, knicker-wetting, yellow bellied softies, or
b) The American View: those Corporate American Commie bastards have infitrated our gummint!
The IBM709x series were in use around about 1970. By 1974 the system 360 was all the rage, and bytes were in common use, so probably over 40 years ago.
If there are 9 or 18 (or even 36, if it's a particularly large DIMM) identically-marked chips, that's ECC. If there are 4, 8, 16, or 32 chips, then it's probably not
In the days of the AMD586, it was common for mother boards to be sold with fake ECC. There was actually a "fake ECC" chip soldered where the ECC should be. Often, these boards had defective RAM in too, but would pass the BIOS fake memory test! Memtest86 was written because of these boards.
I bought one myself and was astonished that it was cost effective to deliberately engineer defective machines. Memtest86 may not be very good, but it would flush these boards out, which was the problem when it was written.
Realistic testing for the kind of problem in this article requires knowledge of the layout of memory cells to know which is ajacent to what, as well as prolongued testing. However, it should be possible to produce a background task that does the test continuously and put it in the idle loop. This is often done in embedded systems. Perhaps the memory chips could hold a guide to the cell layout.
And perhaps people who sell defective memory chips could face a class action.
As it is the same telcos providing the service in all countries, why are there any additional costs?
There is no reason on earth why calling from France Telecom in London to France Telecom in Paris costs more than France telecom in London to France Telecom in Manchester (Or Deutche Telecom for that matter).
In the case of Hutchinson 3G (a Hongkong company) IT ALREADY DOESNT!
What you see here is "we have the technology to fleece you" being optimised.
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Surely the real news is that Android tablets are now susceptable to human viruses.
Signed:
iBollocks.
The Spanish inquisition call it heresy. We could argue all night.
If you are going to look directly into Wikipedia, the Academy of Science recommends you hold a piece of cardboard over your eyes to avoid brain damage.
A Thinkpad T21 from 2002?
Eclipse on a Pentium 3 with only 1GB of memory may be slow, but you can spend the extra time racing tortoises, or doing the things students normally do.
Use a Cray for the serious lifting. Use the laptop as a dumb terminal.
Or get an iWatch, and be the dumb terminal yourself.
This may be a solution, but it is not clear there is actually a problem it solves.
Does this enable more total data to be transmitted where there are multiple users in a band? When they are using spread spectrum and reception conditions are poor, and one or both ends are moving through buildings or spaces occupied by reflective surfaces?
I am sure someone will buy the patent, but much less sure it will turn out to be value for money.
I do not want this deal - my embroidery software requires XP, and the sewing machine will not work with newer software. There is no way I would replace my old "Made in Switzerland" machine, with a modern "made in Korea" one.
The car industry has been doing this for almost 100 years (with engines). If they can't be stopped, It is a safe bet that shuffling bits around will be harder to tax.
This is what is known in the trade as "throwing a sop to the voters".
No change there, then.
Maybe in America, but here in Europe, tax is seen as the wheel to steer the ship of state, and social engineering is seen as important to maintaining a state in which the police do not shoot (many) people, and they don't (often) shoot back.
Someone on $2 a day is outside the monetary economy. They do not pay for food and shelter with money. p. Do they need surface tablets? Hell, no - they need large format Android phones.
It made me try much harder with spelling, and rely less on automatic spelling corrections, and also gave me a new insight into the Bible!
Why feed back when, you can fix it yourself.
Obviously your sarcasm filter needs upgrading to use systemd.
Of course not. Think of the RIAA!
Of course, Moses may have been a precident - but there is the NIH syndrome.
World's first Dr Who tranplant? Jeremy Clarkson may be needing one soon.
Ye. The threat of yet another karaoke version of "My Way" would definitely drive most normal people to suicide-bombing!
The reality is that terrorists are a tiny proportion of the threats to the average American.
There are only two possibilities:
a) The European view: Americans are a bunch of spineless, knicker-wetting, yellow bellied softies, or
b) The American View: those Corporate American Commie bastards have infitrated our gummint!
I wish to propose a third way: both of the above!
If BT isn't blocking you as a result of government policy, then it is probably because their DNS settings are corrupt - again.
How was that patent even slightly valid? Parity was known about before WW1 - and by implication probably before An Wang was born!
The IBM709x series were in use around about 1970. By 1974 the system 360 was all the rage, and bytes were in common use, so probably over 40 years ago.
In the days of the AMD586, it was common for mother boards to be sold with fake ECC. There was actually a "fake ECC" chip soldered where the ECC should be. Often, these boards had defective RAM in too, but would pass the BIOS fake memory test! Memtest86 was written because of these boards.
I bought one myself and was astonished that it was cost effective to deliberately engineer defective machines. Memtest86 may not be very good, but it would flush these boards out, which was the problem when it was written.
Realistic testing for the kind of problem in this article requires knowledge of the layout of memory cells to know which is ajacent to what, as well as prolongued testing. However, it should be possible to produce a background task that does the test continuously and put it in the idle loop. This is often done in embedded systems. Perhaps the memory chips could hold a guide to the cell layout.
And perhaps people who sell defective memory chips could face a class action.
You obviously have not tried it.
No. Install it yourself, and let them use the backdoor. Saves the state a lot of money. He is not as stupid as he looks.
There is no reason on earth why calling from France Telecom in London to France Telecom in Paris costs more than France telecom in London to France Telecom in Manchester (Or Deutche Telecom for that matter).
In the case of Hutchinson 3G (a Hongkong company) IT ALREADY DOESNT!
What you see here is "we have the technology to fleece you" being optimised.