While it is true that "dura" by itself means "hard", "dura" as a sufix is just a way to create a noun from a verb (eg, salpicadura), from another noun (eg, arboladura), or, as in this case, from an adjective. On the other hand, the real meaning of the adjective "extrema" in this context is "farthest" (from Rome).
An embedded computer is not necessarily a computer that cannot be removed, but one that, when [removed|switched off|etc], there is a major degradation in the intended functionality of the machinery which it is helping to control.
Make sure you backup Calculator 1.0 before applying this update (or reinstall it from CD).
This update breaks all three included plugins:
Hexadecimal Calculator:
2004-11-07 09:49:20.013 Calculator[650] *** -[HexadecimalController supportsDisplayModeChanges]: selector not recognized
Graphic Calculator:
2004-11-07 09:51:16.017 Calculator[716] *** -[GraphController addView:toWindow:atPoint:]: selector not recognized
Expression Sheet Calculator:
2004-11-07 09:51:59.560 Calculator[721] *** -[ExpressionSheetController addView:toWindow:atPoint:]: selector not recognized
We were talking about responsability, either civil or criminal. Civil responsability is more than enough to get you fired. In my home country there is a gipsy saying (actually a curse or malediction) that goes "tengas pleitos y los ganes" -- "have lawsuits and you win them".
That is only because you are not a street "administrator". If you were a street cop, may be thwart crime would be your duties?
User policies, both in networks and in the street, _are_ policed for, even if we, as network administrators, naturally don't like to talk about the policing we do.
This is another English example, but with a twist. I once read in an English dictionary the following definition (well, I don't remember the exact words) vino: bad wine
An XServe has like 9 Blower fans in it and sounds like an old dust buster but louder.
The speed of the XServe fans is controlled by software.
Out of the box, an XServe will even stop rotating some fans when the temperature is low enough. It is not unthinkable to hack the XServe for a full stop of the fans when the mission requires so. Additionally, in the unfortunate case of some part failing due to excessive temperature (not that probable, since for deployment in a submarine ruggedized parts are used) everything in an XServe is very easily replaceable.
The ScrollPoint accelerates the scrolling when you keep pressing in the same direction.
This is something you just can't do with a wheel, which tops at the speed you are able to move your finger.
In addition, with a wheel I usually have to set the scrolling ratio to something around eight lines per tick (otherwise it takes me centuries to scroll over a couple of pages).
With the ScrollPoint, on the other hand, I set this ratio to one or two lines per tick. The ScrollPoint scrolling is also extraordinarily smooth, and stopping at any given line is extremely accurate (with little practice).
Even more, what you are controlling with different amounts of pressure from your finger is not the displacement, nor the speed, but the amount of acceleration itself.
The control you can get this mouse is impossible to understand without actually trying it. The pity is it has only drivers for Windows.
Have you ever read about a person that won the lottery? Did that make you think that you are going to win the lotery too?
When you buy extended warranties, or insurance in general, you are dealing with probabilities, so in this case the math is that you have to multiply those $800 by the probability of breaking your CPU (which is almost nil in the terms covered, no Acts of God, etc)
I do agree that some of these large software projects are the greatest engineering feats in human history.
...some of these large software projects are the greatest
management feats in human history. So much planning, so much testing (both necessary) is what makes those projects so complex.
Instead, I understand that the most complex thing created by man are computer systems in general. it is shown by the fact that there are so many conceptual layers between what we think we are doing right now in front of a computer screen and the millions of electrical currents that are making it possible.
This doesn't imply that all the layers are perfect (just think of the layer called slashcode:) but the complexity of the whole system is just mindbending.
Agreed then. It was just a little weird that you mixed voting with watchdogs in your first comment. I actually responded because it was otherwise a really good comment (heck, the things I'm reading in this discussion!)
Cheers.
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There are several redundant systems. Let's say for example that your FLCC has 3 identical systems. If one fails, the other two take over until the watchdog timer kicks in and restarts the third (in the case of a software fault).
Not exactly. The watchdog timer is the one that decides some unit has failed and, only then, gives control to a redundant unit (in addition order a reboot of the failed one).
For practical purposes, the reboot will be in the background, so the time it actually takes it not that important (as long as the Mean Time Between Failures is reasonable).
Much more important is setting of the watchdog timer. If it is set too long, other connected units may be wasting cycles waiting for the failed unit. If it set too short, many unnecessary reboots will be happening...
A bad combination of long and short settings will produce exactly the problem that is being reported in the article. This is not really a problem except to the eyes of the uninformed press; it merely shows that the whole system is not fine tuned yet.
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Your question reminds me of an old joke from stand-up comedian Miguel Gila: "When I was born, my mother couldn't be present at the delivery because she was out of town."
Can you see the absurd in "species B descending directly from species A without coexisting for at least some time"?
Also, if it were true that evolution forces are always slow, wouldn't that coexistence time be more often long than short?
I don't know if you would agree that the sentence in question could be paraphrased to "Since these particular homo sapiens were concurrent in time with some neanderthals, the posibility of the homo sapiens descending from the neanderthal is ruled out"?
Actually this is the way in which the discovery has been explained on tv in my country. I suspected a faulty translation at first but, after reading the article, I am not so sure.
To me, the posibility of the homo sapiens descending from the early neanderthal is still there.
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While it is true that "dura" by itself means "hard", "dura" as a sufix is just a way to create a noun from a verb (eg, salpicadura), from another noun (eg, arboladura), or, as in this case, from an adjective. On the other hand, the real meaning of the adjective "extrema" in this context is "farthest" (from Rome).
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An embedded computer is not necessarily a computer that cannot be removed, but one that, when [removed|switched off|etc], there is a major degradation in the intended functionality of the machinery which it is helping to control.
> What's a normal computer?
A normal computer is never embedded.
open -a "Spin Control.app" --
Can it do 3d modelling?
Computers can.
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It could also help you to stop beating your wife http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,2763,119 2217,00.html
...called it Social Intermental Activity. I too believe he predates everyone else.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Tarde
All this stuff is not new. It was 'discovered' by Gabriel Tarde more than 100 years ago.
We were talking about responsability, either civil or criminal. Civil responsability is more than enough to get you fired. In my home country there is a gipsy saying (actually a curse or malediction) that goes "tengas pleitos y los ganes" -- "have lawsuits and you win them".
That is only because you are not a street "administrator". If you were a street cop, may be thwart crime would be your duties? User policies, both in networks and in the street, _are_ policed for, even if we, as network administrators, naturally don't like to talk about the policing we do.
If that were the case, such administrator could have some responsability too, if he knew about the virus and didn't stop the guy.
This is another English example, but with a twist. I once read in an English dictionary the following definition (well, I don't remember the exact words) vino: bad wine
More probably, the navy will be getting the first G5XServes.
The speed of the XServe fans is controlled by software.
Out of the box, an XServe will even stop rotating some fans when the temperature is low enough. It is not unthinkable to hack the XServe for a full stop of the fans when the mission requires so. Additionally, in the unfortunate case of some part failing due to excessive temperature (not that probable, since for deployment in a submarine ruggedized parts are used) everything in an XServe is very easily replaceable.
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The ScrollPoint accelerates the scrolling when you keep pressing in the same direction.
This is something you just can't do with a wheel, which tops at the speed you are able to move your finger.
In addition, with a wheel I usually have to set the scrolling ratio to something around eight lines per tick (otherwise it takes me centuries to scroll over a couple of pages).
With the ScrollPoint, on the other hand, I set this ratio to one or two lines per tick. The ScrollPoint scrolling is also extraordinarily smooth, and stopping at any given line is extremely accurate (with little practice).
Even more, what you are controlling with different amounts of pressure from your finger is not the displacement, nor the speed, but the amount of acceleration itself.
The control you can get this mouse is impossible to understand without actually trying it. The pity is it has only drivers for Windows.
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When you buy extended warranties, or insurance in general, you are dealing with probabilities, so in this case the math is that you have to multiply those $800 by the probability of breaking your CPU (which is almost nil in the terms covered, no Acts of God, etc)
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I'm sure you're not trolling, but you are probably not well informed about macs.
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May be I am now looking incoherent?
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Agreed then. It was just a little weird that you mixed voting with watchdogs in your first comment. I actually responded because it was otherwise a really good comment (heck, the things I'm reading in this discussion!) Cheers.
Your question reminds me of an old joke from stand-up comedian Miguel Gila: "When I was born, my mother couldn't be present at the delivery because she was out of town."
Can you see the absurd in "species B descending directly from species A without coexisting for at least some time"?
Also, if it were true that evolution forces are always slow, wouldn't that coexistence time be more often long than short?
I don't know if you would agree that the sentence in question could be paraphrased to "Since these particular homo sapiens were concurrent in time with some neanderthals, the posibility of the homo sapiens descending from the neanderthal is ruled out"?
Actually this is the way in which the discovery has been explained on tv in my country. I suspected a faulty translation at first but, after reading the article, I am not so sure.
To me, the posibility of the homo sapiens descending from the early neanderthal is still there.