The kids playing video games were geeks, afraid for their lives.
And to play them, we had to walk 2 miles, uphill, in the snow, both ways, and past the captain of the football teams house.
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Why would he mention it? His worm was bugged, and that was what caused the slowdown/meltdown.
The intent of his program was very different than the resulting chaos, unlike todays worms which appear to be designed to disrupt the internet. How many of your disasterously buggy programs do you talk about?:)
Blame Enron and other such fiasco's. Financial institution's have to record and hold all elctronic communications for years now. The specific number of years eludes me atm.
If you think some E-mails people send are incriminating, imagine what IM's traded around an office would expose.
It's much easier to stop the people from using IM services than to try to capture/record/log/preserve it all. At least for financial institutions which theoretically could face billion dollar lawsuits.
We navigate by knowing our exact starting position. From that position, any acceleration in any direction is detected.
The accelerations in all dimensions are integrated over time, which, after lots of math, gives you a velocity vector. Add this vector to the last point, and now you know where you are.
Obviously there are many outside influences that can cause errors, heat and vibration being 2 obvious choices. (Friction, not enough decimal points, etc...)
We can control heat and vibration to an extent, and correct these and the rest of the errors with physical or mathematical corrections.
We cannot control gravity, but we can measure it accurately enough to correct the effects of it.
Periodically, we would do as other posters have mentioned, and we re-align the gyro's using GPS fixes, or in the old days, LORAN.
Don't be fooled though, we could make a whole patrol underwater, with no corrections from a GPS fix, and still be close enough to our computed position that the missles would land on the right city in Russia.;)
Well, inertially navigated submarines DO have a gravity map of the area they are operating in. At least the one's I was on.
The gravity map values are applied as correction factors to the inertial navigators.
The gyro's are attracted towards denser areas, which causes precession, which is picked up as an incorrect acceleration, and this throws the position of the inertial navigator off.
So we basically aplied a correction signal to keep the gyro's orientated to the correct reference planes in the math model so the 'real' accelerations could be correctly calculated.
My brother works for a large seed/research company.
Their tractors have for years been equipped with GPS.
They plot entire fields, and keep a record of things like: average soil moisture content, average amount of nutrients in the soil, elevation changes, and subjective human inputs on conditions, etc...
When they go to plant seed, the computers are connected to the data, and the GPS receiver, and the planter.
When seeds start going into the ground, the seed density AND fertilizer amounts/mixture's are changed on the fly to accomodate the growing conditions of that area of the field, with no operator input.
"In an effort to get my young sons interested in some sort of science subject"
Just so you know, my father also tried to 'interest' me in subjects.
Unfortunately, just because I'm his son does NOT mean we share an aptitude for the same things.
He went out of his way to ensure I got math/science/electronics schooling/training.
He used to justify it by saying "I work in air-conditioned building every day. Mechanical laborers are hot,sweaty and miserable, you don't want to do that."
The only problem is/was is that I'm more mechanically inclined, but I haven't really discovered this until my late 20's/early 30's.
Unfortunately I've been staring at schematics for the last 10 years, and I'm not too happy with my career.
Don't assume you children will like or enjoy the same things you do. Even if they are as smart as you, even if they look like you, even if they smell like you.
If they are interested in science, they will find a way to convey that, YOU do not need to interest them in science.
If they like Art, then they like Art. If they like music, then so be it You cannot change that. You can try, but it's not worth it to their future.
You can't seriously tell me that I must pay for all the filler you make up to fill an album?
Here's an idea. Put 15 GOOD songs on an album, intead of 3 or 4, and the whole album will be bought in 99 cent downloads.
Which,by the way gets you $15, which is what the CD cost in the store, but with no packaging or distribution costs on your end.
Your greedy record label should have pointed this out to you, but they didn't 'cause they get even less of a cut with this distribution method.
Basically it's all the tools and accessories that are used at our site.
Tools(Everything we need), clips, zip-ties, batteries(About 15 different types), IC chips, blank eeproms, blank CD's, labels, surface mount components (Resistors, Caps,etc), and on and on and on....
Works great, we have a person whose job it is to re-order stuff thats used, if you take the last item, you put the tag on his desk, he re-stocks the bin.
The only problem is people pilfering for personal use (The AA batteries fly out of there like nobodies business).
Adding a security camera and posting a notice that it was there drastically reduced the pilfering.
While the security people are still owned and run by the airlines, I would guess that the standard disclaimer on the back of your ticket states what happens with damaged goods, and how much the airline is liable for.
When they are fully converted over to Federal employees who knows what will happen.
Slashdot Mirror
They were talking to SCO the other day....
The kids playing video games were geeks, afraid for their lives. And to play them, we had to walk 2 miles, uphill, in the snow, both ways, and past the captain of the football teams house.
and you guys STILL find a way to bitch.
That a homeless guy is a better hacker than you.
Why would he mention it?
:)
His worm was bugged, and that was what caused the slowdown/meltdown.
The intent of his program was very different than the resulting chaos, unlike todays worms which appear to be designed to disrupt the internet.
How many of your disasterously buggy programs do you talk about?
How can I use my mod points to rate this entire article 'WRONG'? :)
I wouldn't be suprised if this guy showed up tomorrow for work, and it's all a big smoking mess.
Blame Enron and other such fiasco's.
Financial institution's have to record and hold all elctronic communications for years now. The specific number of years eludes me atm.
If you think some E-mails people send are incriminating, imagine what IM's traded around an office would expose.
It's much easier to stop the people from using IM services than to try to capture/record/log/preserve it all. At least for financial institutions which theoretically could face billion dollar lawsuits.
We navigate by knowing our exact starting position.
;)
From that position, any acceleration in any direction is detected.
The accelerations in all dimensions are integrated over time, which, after lots of math, gives you a velocity vector.
Add this vector to the last point, and now you know where you are.
Obviously there are many outside influences that can cause errors, heat and vibration being 2 obvious choices. (Friction, not enough decimal points, etc...)
We can control heat and vibration to an extent, and correct these and the rest of the errors with physical or mathematical corrections.
We cannot control gravity, but we can measure it accurately enough to correct the effects of it.
Periodically, we would do as other posters have mentioned, and we re-align the gyro's using GPS fixes, or in the old days, LORAN.
Don't be fooled though, we could make a whole patrol underwater, with no corrections from a GPS fix, and still be close enough to our computed position that the missles would land on the right city in Russia.
psst, they released Combat Mission:Barbarossa to Berlin too.
Even better than the original.
Combat Mission
Puzzle games are the best example they could find? What about SOLDAT?
Who remembers the days when you could hardly find any NON-scientific things on the net?
Then someone made a search engine called yahoo to do that.
Now it comes full circle.
Well, inertially navigated submarines DO have a gravity map of the area they are operating in. At least the one's I was on.
The gravity map values are applied as correction factors to the inertial navigators.
The gyro's are attracted towards denser areas, which causes precession, which is picked up as an incorrect acceleration, and this throws the position of the inertial navigator off.
So we basically aplied a correction signal to keep the gyro's orientated to the correct reference planes in the math model so the 'real' accelerations could be correctly calculated.
My brother works for a large seed/research company.
Their tractors have for years been equipped with GPS.
They plot entire fields, and keep a record of things like: average soil moisture content, average amount of nutrients in the soil, elevation changes, and subjective human inputs on conditions, etc...
When they go to plant seed, the computers are connected to the data, and the GPS receiver, and the planter.
When seeds start going into the ground, the seed density AND fertilizer amounts/mixture's are changed on the fly to accomodate the growing conditions of that area of the field, with no operator input.
"In an effort to get my young sons interested in some sort of science subject"
Just so you know, my father also tried to 'interest' me in subjects.
Unfortunately, just because I'm his son does NOT mean we share an aptitude for the same things.
He went out of his way to ensure I got math/science/electronics schooling/training.
He used to justify it by saying "I work in air-conditioned building every day. Mechanical laborers are hot,sweaty and miserable, you don't want to do that."
The only problem is/was is that I'm more mechanically inclined, but I haven't really discovered this until my late 20's/early 30's.
Unfortunately I've been staring at schematics for the last 10 years, and I'm not too happy with my career.
Don't assume you children will like or enjoy the same things you do. Even if they are as smart as you, even if they look like you, even if they smell like you.
If they are interested in science, they will find a way to convey that, YOU do not need to interest them in science.
If they like Art, then they like Art. If they like music, then so be it You cannot change that. You can try, but it's not worth it to their future.
Face it, albums ARE a thing of the past.
You can't seriously tell me that I must pay for all the filler you make up to fill an album? Here's an idea. Put 15 GOOD songs on an album, intead of 3 or 4, and the whole album will be bought in 99 cent downloads.
Which,by the way gets you $15, which is what the CD cost in the store, but with no packaging or distribution costs on your end.
Your greedy record label should have pointed this out to you, but they didn't 'cause they get even less of a cut with this distribution method.
Quit 'yer bitching.
Quote:"ShadowBane and Star Wars: Galaxies and PlanetSide. How successful they will be is anyone's guess now."
Well, I for one can pretty safely say that Star Wars: Galaxies will be really, really, really successful.
Anyone want to disagree?
"MS has the Xbox Incubator Program, which takes what MS feels are very good ideas and basically becomes your publisher"
;)
This is a change from previous years where they stole your ideas, bought out your company, and made their own product....Without asking you first.
n/t
My company looked into the Bitmicro drives about a year ago.
If I remember correctly, the cost was on the order of $1,000 a Gigabyte.
Quite a prohibitive price for most applications.
Running SETI without the screensaver app enabled, or even better, running it from the command line give you faster work units anyway.
:)
Since you worried less about your total units completed than about having a 'cool' screensaver, this is the price you pay.
Did you even read the article? He looked into slackware and decided it didn't work.
At my worksite, we have an area called Labstock.
Basically it's all the tools and accessories that are used at our site.
Tools(Everything we need), clips, zip-ties, batteries(About 15 different types), IC chips, blank eeproms, blank CD's, labels, surface mount components (Resistors, Caps,etc), and on and on and on....
Works great, we have a person whose job it is to re-order stuff thats used, if you take the last item, you put the tag on his desk, he re-stocks the bin.
The only problem is people pilfering for personal use (The AA batteries fly out of there like nobodies business).
Adding a security camera and posting a notice that it was there drastically reduced the pilfering.
When you get laid off, if we sign a form saying we won't sue.
While the security people are still owned and run by the airlines, I would guess that the standard disclaimer on the back of your ticket states what happens with damaged goods, and how much the airline is liable for. When they are fully converted over to Federal employees who knows what will happen.