Some people are wondering why someone would waste so much time on this.
I've always had an interest in the history of perpetual motion and i would have liked to have been on the jury. It is interesting to see some of the crazy ideas that people have come up with I would love to see a detailed explanation as to how the Orbo was supposed to work.
My company's product is a suite of GIS applications. It's not uncommon to find bug mission-critical bug after a code push. Things often get patched, QA'd and released within 12h. It really depends on how important the bug is, in relation to value of upcoming project deadlines.
"Compared to Porquet's use of punctuation elsewhere in this poem, this looks like a purposeful visual pun, putting a smile on the end of the one line in his whole poem poking fun at his beloved student"
I believe there is prior art, found in an 18th century poem. I'd bet that typesetters had been mucking about with this stuff since the invention of movable type.
This is not draconian. There are plenty of reasonable limits that are, and should be placed on "free" speech. "Uttering a death threat" is illegal in Canada. I'm sure there are similar laws in effect in the USA. Hate speech laws are in the same vein, and serve the same purpose.
If someone were to post a specific death threat toward an individual on their website, or post material intended to incite violence toward that individual, that would be a crime and I doubt that many people would make such a fuss.
How is it then that we are so opposed to laws that bar similar material which is aimed at an entire ethnic group, religion, sexual orientation, etc?
That only applies to english speaking prodestants. The RC Church has it's own english translation that varies a great degree from the King James edition.
-The complexity of the routing tables. Although people complain that we are running out of IP address space, this isn't exactly true. The problem is in badly fragmented IP address space. That is to say that the route tables of our core routers that join the backbone providers have grown to be huge. There are a whole pile of class C networks (254 hosts each) that the IANA is trying to claw back so they can be consolidated into larger/16 and/8 CIDR networks.
-BGP AS space. Due to what i can only assume was poor foresight, the AS# used to identify BGP "Autonomous Systems" (Corporations, and entities that use BGP to exchange routing information with the backbone providers) is a 16 bit value. So there are only ~65K numbers that can actually be given out.
-Complexity of configuring these routing protocols. It's rocket science, plain and simple. A misconfigured BGP router will not work, and may even disrupt traffic over the rest of the internet. If anyone was allowed to broadcast any BGP route without the consent of all their peers and a pile of red tape, i could advertise a route to 24.0.0.0 and half the internet would disappear for a good number of cable-broadband users.
-Required bandwidth, and latency problems. The current top-level backbone providers have many millions of dollars worth of equipment and high-speed point to point connections to keep the number of hops for each packet to a minimum. They have the capacity to push more traffic than you'll use in a week down their wan links every second. This is a vast improvement over a pile of 56, 1024 and 3068 kilobit connections that would be meshed together in a distributed model.
Sounds good at first, but then if the power fails the maglev would fall upwards and crash into the top of the shaft. I think it requires some mechanical breaking system. Possibly a device that can tell when the elevator car accelerates downwards at a dangerous velocity.
You mean like hiring a sysadmin to remotely administer your machine, and paying him in CPU cycles?
That actually sounds like a relatively sound method for the wholeale of distributed CPU time.
People give CPU time away to organizations like SETI. The only problem, is the maket value of CPU cycles vs the cost of administering a whole pile of insecure windows boxes.
yes and no.. with the proper equipment to manufacture coins in large volume, it costs almost the value of the coin to make them( in the case of smaller denominations, it can cost more than the value of the coin).
Given that counterfeit money has a street value of roughly 50% the face value before it has been laundered, it's not profitable to manufacture.
Well, he owns a number of media companies, including Core, which provided the CG for Blade II, and LeXX. And from the small amount of leaked footage out there, a REALLY nice animated piece for The Mouse.
So, i would say he has a life. Now, Lenard Nemoy, that's another story.
This sounds good for for Linux. As Apple gains market share, Microsoft will actually have to compete with someone.
Also, as the OS market becomes a little more heterogenus opportunities for a 3rd or maybe even a 4th contender can emerge. If Apple and Microsoft were to both hold 45% of the market share on the desktop, many more developers would find themselves needing to write portable applications, that would run on Wintel and Mac machines.
Applications designed for portability between the two greatly different architectures would be easier to port to Linux as well.
1) It's called the Internet dumbass. As in inter-networking, which is the use of a router to connect two or more LANs together. I wish you fucking morons would quit trying to pretend that you know what you're talking about.
2) Please tell me which country you expect me to move to. I am having a hard time thinking of a country that will continue to protect it's people from corporate interests over the lifetimes of my children and grandchildren. The only ones that come to mind are communist states, which really are not all that pleasant to live in.
We should be concerned that our fundamental right to fully own our property is being threatened. This has come to pass because we are willing to trade that right for the ability to watch The Cool New Movie on our computers.
Ram isn't the issue. The bottle-neck in Software RAID is not the RAM, the CPU, the extra math that needs to be done, it's the the PCI bus. In hardware RAID, you send the data to the card, and it distributes it among the attached disks. In a software RAID 1, you need to send the data across the bus once for each disk. In a hardware RAID you need to send the data only once. So far, in a soft RAID 1 with 2 SATA disks, i've not noticed any significant bottleneck.
Can you sacrafice a little bit of speed for some cheap reliablity?
the reason tubes sound so nice, is that they *don't* handle signals between 20 - 20kHz correctly. and nobody has managed to program a DSP to malfunction in the same way a tube does. Aparently it's quite a complex task.
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Some people are wondering why someone would waste so much time on this.
I've always had an interest in the history of perpetual motion and i would have liked to have been on the jury. It is interesting to see some of the crazy ideas that people have come up with I would love to see a detailed explanation as to how the Orbo was supposed to work.
mont-blanc, hindenburg, valdez, challenger, titanic, columbia, fanny-fern, sultana, r-101, saluda ...
Actually, since the voltages are so tiny, the ADC is usually mounted on the arm right next to the heads. You can see it if you open the drive.
My company's product is a suite of GIS applications. It's not uncommon to find bug mission-critical bug after a code push. Things often get patched, QA'd and released within 12h. It really depends on how important the bug is, in relation to value of upcoming project deadlines.
"Compared to Porquet's use of punctuation elsewhere in this poem, this looks like a purposeful visual pun, putting a smile on the end of the one line in his whole poem poking fun at his beloved student"
I believe there is prior art, found in an 18th century poem. I'd bet that typesetters had been mucking about with this stuff since the invention of movable type.
http://maul.deepsky.com/~merovech/smiley.html
It's not a matter of "Better" it's a matter of "Best Available".
This is not draconian. There are plenty of reasonable limits that are, and should be placed on "free" speech. "Uttering a death threat" is illegal in Canada. I'm sure there are similar laws in effect in the USA. Hate speech laws are in the same vein, and serve the same purpose.
If someone were to post a specific death threat toward an individual on their website, or post material intended to incite violence toward that individual, that would be a crime and I doubt that many people would make such a fuss.
How is it then that we are so opposed to laws that bar similar material which is aimed at an entire ethnic group, religion, sexual orientation, etc?
That only applies to english speaking prodestants. The RC Church has it's own english translation that varies a great degree from the King James edition.
-The complexity of the routing tables. Although people complain that we are running out of IP address space, this isn't exactly true. The problem is in badly fragmented IP address space. That is to say that the route tables of our core routers that join the backbone providers have grown to be huge. There are a whole pile of class C networks (254 hosts each) that the IANA is trying to claw back so they can be consolidated into larger /16 and /8 CIDR networks.
-BGP AS space. Due to what i can only assume was poor foresight, the AS# used to identify BGP "Autonomous Systems" (Corporations, and entities that use BGP to exchange routing information with the backbone providers) is a 16 bit value. So there are only ~65K numbers that can actually be given out.
-Complexity of configuring these routing protocols. It's rocket science, plain and simple. A misconfigured BGP router will not work, and may even disrupt traffic over the rest of the internet. If anyone was allowed to broadcast any BGP route without the consent of all their peers and a pile of red tape, i could advertise a route to 24.0.0.0 and half the internet would disappear for a good number of cable-broadband users.
-Required bandwidth, and latency problems. The current top-level backbone providers have many millions of dollars worth of equipment and high-speed point to point connections to keep the number of hops for each packet to a minimum. They have the capacity to push more traffic than you'll use in a week down their wan links every second. This is a vast improvement over a pile of 56, 1024 and 3068 kilobit connections that would be meshed together in a distributed model.
Sounds good at first, but then if the power fails the maglev would fall upwards and crash into the top of the shaft. I think it requires some mechanical breaking system. Possibly a device that can tell when the elevator car accelerates downwards at a dangerous velocity.
Our company tried lotus. It's awful. Active directory is more reliable.
After our experiences with lotus, upper management told us to roll our own.
Still in the process of doing that. The only thing missing is a decent calendar.
You mean like hiring a sysadmin to remotely administer your machine, and paying him in CPU cycles?
That actually sounds like a relatively sound method for the wholeale of distributed CPU time.
People give CPU time away to organizations like SETI. The only problem, is the maket value of CPU cycles vs the cost of administering a whole pile of insecure windows boxes.
Police? In russia? Heh. You funny.
If the police weren't hired to take the hit on this guy, then at least they've been paid to make this go away.
You know, the coroner will decide that he "Slipped" and "bumped his head".
yes and no..
with the proper equipment to manufacture coins in large volume, it costs almost the value of the coin to make them( in the case of smaller denominations, it can cost more than the value of the coin).
Given that counterfeit money has a street value of roughly 50% the face value before it has been laundered, it's not profitable to manufacture.
Well, he owns a number of media companies, including Core, which provided the CG for Blade II, and LeXX. And from the small amount of leaked footage out there, a REALLY nice animated piece for The Mouse.
So, i would say he has a life. Now, Lenard Nemoy, that's another story.
This sounds good for for Linux. As Apple gains market share, Microsoft will actually have to compete with someone.
Also, as the OS market becomes a little more heterogenus opportunities for a 3rd or maybe even a 4th contender can emerge. If Apple and Microsoft were to both hold 45% of the market share on the desktop, many more developers would find themselves needing to write portable applications, that would run on Wintel and Mac machines.
Applications designed for portability between the two greatly different architectures would be easier to port to Linux as well.
A law that allows the government to take your property. And they get to decide the value of the property.
This does not represent interests of the people.
There appears to exist no "proper" use of this law.
"It is evil" sounds like an appropriate opinion.
Changing the scale of measurement by a couple of orders of magnitude does not affect the number of constants in an equasion.
This is to say that an object that is 1kg will not magically behave differently if we call it a 1000g object.
1) It's called the Internet dumbass. As in inter-networking, which is the use of a router to connect two or more LANs together. I wish you fucking morons would quit trying to pretend that you know what you're talking about.
2) Please tell me which country you expect me to move to. I am having a hard time thinking of a country that will continue to protect it's people from corporate interests over the lifetimes of my children and grandchildren. The only ones that come to mind are communist states, which really are not all that pleasant to live in.
We should be concerned that our fundamental right to fully own our property is being threatened. This has come to pass because we are willing to trade that right for the ability to watch The Cool New Movie on our computers.
Ram isn't the issue.
The bottle-neck in Software RAID is not the RAM, the CPU, the extra math that needs to be done, it's the the PCI bus. In hardware RAID, you send the data to the card, and it distributes it among the attached disks. In a software RAID 1, you need to send the data across the bus once for each disk. In a hardware RAID you need to send the data only once. So far, in a soft RAID 1 with 2 SATA disks, i've not noticed any significant bottleneck.
Can you sacrafice a little bit of speed for some cheap reliablity?
the reason tubes sound so nice, is that they *don't* handle signals between 20 - 20kHz correctly. and nobody has managed to program a DSP to malfunction in the same way a tube does. Aparently it's quite a complex task.
it *is* possible to sniff passwords on switched networks.
just a little more difficult
zeeky boogie doog. >:)
yeah, it's called WineX. but it's not free