Remember that Al was in Vietnam as a journalist, not as a soldier, so it shouldn't be too surprising that he didn't know how to handle a gun.
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There's at least one company that uses them to make business cards, silkscreened with the logo or text of your choice.
They're about the same diameter (3") as most business cards, but, of course, you can put a lot more info on them, such as your resume, demos of your company's software, etc. Pretty cool, IMHO.
And of course Disney's crowning failure came at the very end of his life. The attendant physicians misunderstood his last request, and (alas) instead of preserving his magnificant brain, we now have "Disney on Ice!"
Some things to look at: 1) Make sure your BIOS is configured for MPS 1.1 as opposed to MPS 1.4; the latter has been reported to nuke USB support. 2) There have also been reports of the HPT UDMA66 controllers causing problems -- there's a version of the BP6 BIOS that has no HPT support (download from BP6.com).
Funny; when I was in grade school back in the early 70s, I often read books about such topics -- one even had cutaway drawings of what the author thought a nuke would look like.
No one hauled me off to jail, but I did spend quite a bit of time with school counselors & shrinks, due to general weirdness.
Just a side comment, that the flag appears to be blowing in the wind in the various moon photos. Of course, with no atmosphere, this means that the astronauts just unfurled the flag and with only 1/6 gravity, it sort of 'sticks' temporarily.
Actually, the moon flags are kept unfurled by wires hemmed into their edges.
Any flag durable enough to survive any length of time on the moon is going to be too heavy to float as you describe. Anyway, the kind of floating you're talking about relies on air resistance, which is in rather short supply up there.
Comparatively speaking, programming is really goddamn easy. That's why I (a guy, by the way, not that it matters to anybody with a brain) went into programming instead of hardware engineering.
I've found the exact opposite to be true. I started out designing embedded systems (both hardware & software), but found the hardware design so unchallenging & unrewarding that I gave it up to concentrate exclusively on software development, and I haven't looked back since.
The reason why there's no Nobel award for CS is more obviouse... when the Nobel fund opened there was no CS.
So what? Nobel didn't establish the Economics prize either; it was started in 1968 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Swedish central bank. If there were enough call for a CS prize, they'd find a way to create one.
The BP6 uses the "Old" BX chipset with lots of wierd stuff built onto it by ABIT. It doesn't use the Rambus memory (unless I'm SORELY mistaken), so we don't have a problem.
You're right; the BP6 takes normal or ECC SDRAM. I've got one of these, with 256 MB of ECC and 2 366 MHz Celerons, which I've successfully overclocked to around 420 MHz -- total cost on the order of $700, about half of that for the ECC.
If it was that far ahead might it have not been hit by the dreaded Y10K bug? Since noone has bothered to put a 5th year digit in their dat fields it would have overflowed and thought it heading to where mars was in 9999BCE or so.
Well, according to Iowa State's alumni publications, the replica is eventually going to (or may already be at) the Smithsonian. It also toured Iowa for a time. Check out http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/ for pictures and more info.
Glad to hear that they've put the remnant (a capacitor storage drum, IIRC) in a place where it can be seen. Back when I was a student there (81-87), the drum was in the office of the director of the Computation Center in the old CS building.
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Remember that Al was in Vietnam as a journalist, not as a soldier, so it shouldn't be too surprising that he didn't know how to handle a gun.
There's at least one company that uses them to make business cards, silkscreened with the logo or text of your choice.
They're about the same diameter (3") as most business cards, but, of course, you can put a lot more info on them, such as your resume, demos of your company's software, etc. Pretty cool, IMHO.
And of course Disney's crowning failure came at the very end of his life. The attendant physicians misunderstood his last request, and (alas) instead of preserving his magnificant brain, we now have "Disney on Ice!"
Disney was fried, not frozen -- this is one of many urban legends surrounding Disney and his creations.
There's an Enigma machine along with lots of related items at the National Cryptographic Museum in Columbia, MD.
Speaking of which, there's some kind of sculpture there with an encrypted message in it. Does anyone know if this message has been decrypted?
Some things to look at: 1) Make sure your BIOS is configured for MPS 1.1 as opposed to MPS 1.4; the latter has been reported to nuke USB support. 2) There have also been reports of the HPT UDMA66 controllers causing problems -- there's a version of the BP6 BIOS that has no HPT support (download from BP6.com).
This gives me an idea. If jamming works, why not convince some monitor companies to build their monitors with jamming devices?
It'd probably be cheaper for them to build monitors with proper shielding so there's no emissions for the Van Eck devices to pick up.
They are more or less using Postscript. PDF is basically a tokenized, compiled version of PS.
Funny; when I was in grade school back in the early 70s, I often read books about such topics -- one even had cutaway drawings of what the author thought a nuke would look like.
No one hauled me off to jail, but I did spend quite a bit of time with school counselors & shrinks, due to general weirdness.
Just a side comment, that the flag appears to be blowing in the wind in the various moon photos. Of course, with no atmosphere, this means that the astronauts just unfurled the flag and with only 1/6 gravity, it sort of 'sticks' temporarily.
Actually, the moon flags are kept unfurled by wires hemmed into their edges.
Any flag durable enough to survive any length of time on the moon is going to be too heavy to float as you describe. Anyway, the kind of floating you're talking about relies on air resistance, which is in rather short supply up there.
Comparatively speaking, programming is really goddamn easy. That's why I (a guy, by the way, not that it matters to anybody with a brain) went into programming instead of hardware engineering.
I've found the exact opposite to be true. I started out designing embedded systems (both hardware & software), but found the hardware design so unchallenging & unrewarding that I gave it up to concentrate exclusively on software development, and I haven't looked back since.
The reason why there's no Nobel award for CS is more obviouse... when the Nobel fund opened there was no CS.
So what? Nobel didn't establish the Economics prize either; it was started in 1968 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Swedish central bank. If there were enough call for a CS prize, they'd find a way to create one.
Or just buy a lot of big, cheap hard drives & make your own RAID array, which minimizes your need for backup.
I haven't seen a calculator program that shows you a log of your recent entries like you'd see on the ribbon either.
The built-in calculator applet on Windows CE handheld devices (the larger ones with keyboards, not the palm-sized ones) has this feature.
The BP6 uses the "Old" BX chipset with lots of wierd stuff built onto it by ABIT. It doesn't use the Rambus memory (unless I'm SORELY mistaken), so we don't have a problem.
You're right; the BP6 takes normal or ECC SDRAM. I've got one of these, with 256 MB of ECC and 2 366 MHz Celerons, which I've successfully overclocked to around 420 MHz -- total cost on the order of $700, about half of that for the ECC.
If it was that far ahead might it have not been hit by the dreaded Y10K bug? Since noone has bothered to put a 5th year digit in their dat fields it would have overflowed and thought it heading to where mars was in 9999BCE or so.
What Y10K bug? See RFC 2550 for a fix.
Well, according to Iowa State's alumni publications, the replica is eventually going to (or may already be at) the Smithsonian. It also toured Iowa for a time. Check out http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/ for pictures and more info.
Glad to hear that they've put the remnant (a capacitor storage drum, IIRC) in a place where it can be seen. Back when I was a student there (81-87), the drum was in the office of the director of the Computation Center in the old CS building.