The majority of BIOS's are actually flashed (EEPROM) rather than stored in ROM. The only place that you will find a BIOS on ROm is in something very ancient.
A GmbH is a limited liability company with a limited number of privately traded shares. An AG is closer to a corporation where the shres may either be privately or publicly traded.
No, Siemens didn't make the Lorenz machine. There was a company caled Lorenz which later became merges with another company becoming Standard Elektrik Lorenz (SEL) after the war. SEL was part of ITT for a while but later got merged with the French Group, Alcatel.
Siemens did make teleprinters though, esp. during wartime and the Lorenz device wasn't standalone but rather acted as a 'postprocessor'.
Between stupidity shown by Hitler's personal direction of the German military command and the diversion of Germany's war effort to the obsession with racial purification, they substantially ruined themselves. They were also slower to mobilise their women into factories. Slaves are much less productive than patriotic employees, especially if your goal is to work them to death.
If a police officer sees something that might be interesting (i.e., evidence of an offshore bank account), you may have problems. However, coming in for a chat does not permit them to open drawers.
The policement tend to divide the world into citizens and criminals/potential criminals. The one they will respect, but if they feel that you fall into the other category, perhaps only through being a student, they may lean on you and push the law a little.
Seriously Robert McNamara was one of the main instigators of the Permissive Action Link (PAL) which was supposed to prevent arming or missile launches happening by accident. Unfortunately SAC thought this was for wusses slowing down the launch time too much. Hence the all zeroes code. McNaramara found out much later and went about as ballistic as his missiles.
Is this a full inertial platform or just really the accellerometer thing that I mentioned (which should be good enough for a bomb that just glides down). A full INS kit would be probably overkill.
Why are they useless? All you need is the grid system and you can relate the coordinates back into any coming out of your GPS system. Already many GPS units know a good deal about many alternate coordinate systems.
Um that was definitely true during GW1, but during GW2? Do you have any current info on that? People I know who were out there had military equipment this time round.
If you are flying in a plane where the pilots are pretty much taking GPS for granted and it suddenly goes. You would probably be rather upset as the pilots dig out their howtos for dead-reckoning and VOR.
I would guess they were taken out by HARM missiles which normally hunt down radar emitters or possibly conventional radar guided bombs after the transmitter was found by firection finding.
Inertial guidance on a bomb? They may have some simple accellerometers, but I doubt whether they have full inertial navigation (with the laser gyroscopes), it is still rather expensive for a regular HE bomb. Cruise missiles are something else though and can use any combination of GPS, INS, TCF radar or whatever.
I think they just used HARM missiles which are normally used for destroying radar transmitters.
President Putin is KGB trained. This means he is very intelligent but is much more comfortable with a command economy. He tries to be enthusiastic about a market economy but prefers to use 'stabilizer wheels' (i.e., a strong FSB and military).
Putin has a problem. He has surrounded himself with former colleagues from the St. Petersburg KGB/FSB, the siloviki. His wresting of control though is down to the problem of how to cmpensate the new inhabitants of the Kremlin when all the choice bits are already privatised. Easy, you privatise again! Double-plus ungood for the market economy as you are wrecking the normal way of ownership.
A better approach is to accept those who have been behaving themselves and to expect taxes. Nobody really owns raw materials under the ground, effectively there is just a license to extract. There are many ways to extract money with a "windfall-profits tax" which is happening (++good). Unfortunately there have been very few reforms to corporate governance and to protect the shareholder's interests (++ungood). Markets need a light hand, but Putin is not the man.
Most military has problems because of the untransparent way they are run and the way they procure resources. This applies doubly so in Russia under Ivanov. However bad Russia is for corruption, it is ten times worse in the military (I heard this indirectly from a staff officer). Russia desperately needs military reform.
China doesn't want land. It needs resources and Central Asia's gas and oil reserves are interesting and much less well protected than Russia's far eastern border. Unfortunately, the US soldiers in Uzbekistan are a bit of an inconvenience for them.
Manchester United paid 30 million for Rio Ferdinand from Leeds United (this is English Premier League Football,
Bad example, Leeds is no longer premier league (at least after this season) and they desperately need the cash due to some very dodgy management.
But back to the Beagle, I agree. At the same time, Football is a game frequently associated with dodgy accounting and poor management, however they make a fortune. Heavy science always costs a fortune, even 'lite' projects like Beagle. I thought the whole idea to be good, it is just a pity that they didn't have just a little bit more cash and time for testing.
As for education, well science is interesting (kids do like to find out things) and a good teacher can make a spectacular difference. However it takes a lot more understanding to appreciate science than it does the average ball game and nothing is going to change that.
The M400 can carry 4 people, you linked to the M200 (which has actually been flight tested). The concept of the Sky-Car requires some serious infrastructure (being researched by NASA) allowing much of the control to be asserted by specialist traffic systems, resulting in the so-called "Highways in the Sky".
A friend has a Samsung GSM phone, a 720 I think - it has a white LED for illumination of the subject. Not good for a distance but enough for a portrait.
Windows is about as solid as jello as a release platform. Many applications introduce their own DLL upgrades which makes it difficult to say that this is a pure XP SP1 or that was Win2K SP4. By the time you have Office there plus a few security patches, it is no longer a standard platform.
Linux has its own issues, but there are really just two large-scale commercial platforms, RH and Suse and the only variable is Wine itself.
As for automatic test tools, like WinRunner and so on, no that doesn't work on Linux yet. It may welldo in the future though.
It would of course just be nice to be easily able to use the DLLs directly from/mnt/C/WINNT or something. Many of us are cursed to having WIN on a system and can never completely get rid of it. However, it would be nice if it was easy to leave them in place on a mounted NTFS file system.
If you read the article you find that a financial exchange uses this. It is essentially running a double continuous auction in about 30,000 products (you must runs separate books for calls and put options and then for each exercise price and series). Futures require one per delivery. It doesn't take a lot of basic products to generate thousands of actual things that can be bought and sold.
For each of these items there is a price/time linked list of bids and offers which are used to determine a market. This could be done in memory but if you pull the plug on the system, then the order-book dissappears. This is why they put it onto disk. However with a requirement of subsecond response to any of the several thousand participants - high performace disks are a must.
Drives may rotate but generally speaking the high-end is better than memory because you can't pull the plug on memory. What we have here is a solid-state ram backed by an HD combo. The unit can still fail so generally they are doubled up. As someone else has commented here, the Fibre Channel may be new but the tech is about 15 years old.
The main problem with drives at the moment is insufficient cooling. Sprin them fast and drive the heads hard and they will get hot. Commercial units don't tend to be that different, but at least they ensure that they run cooler.
The DDRAM is battery backed, but there is a small HD there which backs up the solidstate memory so when power fails, it will use the battery for a set period and then copy the contents to HD to preserve it.
stuck in the elevators informing all notebook users to call PC support for clearance before connecting.
It didn't work though, my XP desktop was infected by the time I came in on Monday. Thank heavens it was only for testing the bank's new foreign exchange system, not in production.
Of course, an Accenture person studiously ignored the sign and verbal instructions not to connect her notebook. Luckily she hadn't been infected over the weekend.
You have the MACs of 'safe' machines which are on the enterprise virus scan. You then setup the switch so that only the recognised MACs get put directly onto the corporate LAN, the rest get isolated into quarantine segments until they can be checked, cleaned and patched.
Wouldn't it be interesting if Microsoft has decent competition as well (it looks like it is getting that way, but with OS rather than a commercial competitor).
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The majority of BIOS's are actually flashed (EEPROM) rather than stored in ROM. The only place that you will find a BIOS on ROm is in something very ancient.
A GmbH is a limited liability company with a limited number of privately traded shares. An AG is closer to a corporation where the shres may either be privately or publicly traded.
Siemens did make teleprinters though, esp. during wartime and the Lorenz device wasn't standalone but rather acted as a 'postprocessor'.
Between stupidity shown by Hitler's personal direction of the German military command and the diversion of Germany's war effort to the obsession with racial purification, they substantially ruined themselves. They were also slower to mobilise their women into factories. Slaves are much less productive than patriotic employees, especially if your goal is to work them to death.
The policement tend to divide the world into citizens and criminals/potential criminals. The one they will respect, but if they feel that you fall into the other category, perhaps only through being a student, they may lean on you and push the law a little.
Seriously Robert McNamara was one of the main instigators of the Permissive Action Link (PAL) which was supposed to prevent arming or missile launches happening by accident. Unfortunately SAC thought this was for wusses slowing down the launch time too much. Hence the all zeroes code. McNaramara found out much later and went about as ballistic as his missiles.
Is this a full inertial platform or just really the accellerometer thing that I mentioned (which should be good enough for a bomb that just glides down). A full INS kit would be probably overkill.
OTOH, a friend in Russia uses a Garmin!
Um that was definitely true during GW1, but during GW2? Do you have any current info on that? People I know who were out there had military equipment this time round.
If you are flying in a plane where the pilots are pretty much taking GPS for granted and it suddenly goes. You would probably be rather upset as the pilots dig out their howtos for dead-reckoning and VOR.
I would guess they were taken out by HARM missiles which normally hunt down radar emitters or possibly conventional radar guided bombs after the transmitter was found by firection finding.
I think they just used HARM missiles which are normally used for destroying radar transmitters.
Putin has a problem. He has surrounded himself with former colleagues from the St. Petersburg KGB/FSB, the siloviki. His wresting of control though is down to the problem of how to cmpensate the new inhabitants of the Kremlin when all the choice bits are already privatised. Easy, you privatise again! Double-plus ungood for the market economy as you are wrecking the normal way of ownership.
A better approach is to accept those who have been behaving themselves and to expect taxes. Nobody really owns raw materials under the ground, effectively there is just a license to extract. There are many ways to extract money with a "windfall-profits tax" which is happening (++good). Unfortunately there have been very few reforms to corporate governance and to protect the shareholder's interests (++ungood). Markets need a light hand, but Putin is not the man.
Most military has problems because of the untransparent way they are run and the way they procure resources. This applies doubly so in Russia under Ivanov. However bad Russia is for corruption, it is ten times worse in the military (I heard this indirectly from a staff officer). Russia desperately needs military reform.
China doesn't want land. It needs resources and Central Asia's gas and oil reserves are interesting and much less well protected than Russia's far eastern border. Unfortunately, the US soldiers in Uzbekistan are a bit of an inconvenience for them.
But back to the Beagle, I agree. At the same time, Football is a game frequently associated with dodgy accounting and poor management, however they make a fortune. Heavy science always costs a fortune, even 'lite' projects like Beagle. I thought the whole idea to be good, it is just a pity that they didn't have just a little bit more cash and time for testing.
As for education, well science is interesting (kids do like to find out things) and a good teacher can make a spectacular difference. However it takes a lot more understanding to appreciate science than it does the average ball game and nothing is going to change that.
The M400 can carry 4 people, you linked to the M200 (which has actually been flight tested). The concept of the Sky-Car requires some serious infrastructure (being researched by NASA) allowing much of the control to be asserted by specialist traffic systems, resulting in the so-called "Highways in the Sky".
A friend has a Samsung GSM phone, a 720 I think - it has a white LED for illumination of the subject. Not good for a distance but enough for a portrait.
Linux has its own issues, but there are really just two large-scale commercial platforms, RH and Suse and the only variable is Wine itself.
As for automatic test tools, like WinRunner and so on, no that doesn't work on Linux yet. It may welldo in the future though.
It would of course just be nice to be easily able to use the DLLs directly from /mnt/C/WINNT or something. Many of us are cursed to having WIN on a system and can never completely get rid of it. However, it would be nice if it was easy to leave them in place on a mounted NTFS file system.
For each of these items there is a price/time linked list of bids and offers which are used to determine a market. This could be done in memory but if you pull the plug on the system, then the order-book dissappears. This is why they put it onto disk. However with a requirement of subsecond response to any of the several thousand participants - high performace disks are a must.
There is a CPU in there to manage the thing. This manages things like parttioning into logical drives and does the save/restore to HD.
The main problem with drives at the moment is insufficient cooling. Sprin them fast and drive the heads hard and they will get hot. Commercial units don't tend to be that different, but at least they ensure that they run cooler.
The DDRAM is battery backed, but there is a small HD there which backs up the solidstate memory so when power fails, it will use the battery for a set period and then copy the contents to HD to preserve it.
Of course, an Accenture person studiously ignored the sign and verbal instructions not to connect her notebook. Luckily she hadn't been infected over the weekend.
You have the MACs of 'safe' machines which are on the enterprise virus scan. You then setup the switch so that only the recognised MACs get put directly onto the corporate LAN, the rest get isolated into quarantine segments until they can be checked, cleaned and patched.
Wouldn't it be interesting if Microsoft has decent competition as well (it looks like it is getting that way, but with OS rather than a commercial competitor).