I thought the worm was set to start the DDOS on February 1. So why is SCO showing a DDOS right now?
Due to the speed of the modern information infrastructure, and the method by which this virus distributes itself, a considerable number of copies will have crossed the international dateline several times during transmission. For these, it is indeed February 1st, and therefore these viruses are functioing correctly. Of course a similar number will have crossed in the other direction, so we can expect to see new DDOS attacks on SCO at least until February 5th
In the end, the PC's open architecture that led it to be the computer platform of choice
I think you'll find that it was IBM's name that made it the platform of choice - IBM had a reputation for business computing, therefore the IBM PC was a serious computer. It took a long time for the PC architecture to become open, and this happened long after the PC was the platform of choice.
Last time this was mentioned, I pointed out that it was related to the distance between the pole and Paris, and someone "corrected" me saying it was the Paris meridian. I think I can therefore be confident of the following:
The metre has nothing to do with the equator, and something to do with Paris.
Slashdot is not the place to look for enlightened discussion
You won't, however, catch any British Engineers or scientists using Imperial units.
Integrated circuit pins and PCB track metrics are still measured in thousandths of an inch. Whether this is an americanism, or because of the difficulty in switching enough components simultaneously to drive demand, I don't know. But don't underestimate the power of Legacy - I'm sure this isn't the only example.
The point, which I admit, I didn't make very well is that the carrier frequency is not relevant to bandwidth, except maybe in practical terms at the physical layer. The original poster supposed that in order to up the bandwidth, you have to transmit at a higher carrier frequency. This, to the best of my knowledge, is untrue, and I don't see anything in your quote which contradicts this.
No, higher bandwidth means higher bandwidth - i.e. the range of frequencies used for transmission of information is wider. The frequency used is irrelevant from the point of view of capacity. A 0-100MHz channel has the same capacity as a 1GHz-1.1GHz channel. Of course physical transmission varies widely at different frequencies, as you point out, but there's no fundamental relationship between capacity and frequency.
They're really colorizing the pictures from Mars to hide the proof of aliens!!
That's just paranoid. The real reason they are colorising the images is because the Viking landings were faked, and now all the images from successful landings have to be altered to look like the Viking images, just to hide the sinister truth.
I think the big mistake is that people keep talking about "the embedded market" as if it's sensible to lump a DVD player, a heart monitor and a fly-by-wire system into the same one-size-fits-all category.
why is it so difficult to accomplish this seeming simple task?
Because when you write a GUI which must be easy to use, you have to trade off flexibility for useability. The GUI is designed so that the average user finds it easy to use. The problem is a lot of people aren't the average user, so you find that in order to carry out the task you have to navigate through a plethora of menu options, or worse, do something which should be automated manually over and over again. IMHO, this is something fundamentally broken in the whole ease-of-use idea - it's only easy to use if you're doing exactly what the designers want you to do.
Yes... because as we all know Microsoft or Apple are completly "accountable" for any errors or damage there OS causes...
What matters is that most people who make business decisions to use commercial software believe that the vendor is liable, and continue to believe it despite any evidence to the contrary, such as "we do not guarantee that this software will do what it is designed to do".
They should have sold him the gas, but for a high price
They probably need the fuel - that's why they have it in the first place. There are no petrol stations on antarctica - all fuel and supplies have to be shipped from civilisation at high cost, and this must be planned for in advance. He should have been carrying a contingency supply of fuel, or should have arranged to have more shipped to the base just in case.
Slashdot Mirror
Due to the speed of the modern information infrastructure, and the method by which this virus distributes itself, a considerable number of copies will have crossed the international dateline several times during transmission. For these, it is indeed February 1st, and therefore these viruses are functioing correctly. Of course a similar number will have crossed in the other direction, so we can expect to see new DDOS attacks on SCO at least until February 5th
+4 Interesting?!? Did any of you moderators actually read more than 2 lines. +4 Funny maybe...
I think you'll find that it was IBM's name that made it the platform of choice - IBM had a reputation for business computing, therefore the IBM PC was a serious computer. It took a long time for the PC architecture to become open, and this happened long after the PC was the platform of choice.
I think you mean masochist. A sadist is someone who forces other people to use windows for fun.
It's his own fault. He should have held out for a monster truck
Sounds like slashdot could be in the line of fire.
Actually, it was a decimal fraction of the distance between the north pole and the Paris meridian.
Integrated circuit pins and PCB track metrics are still measured in thousandths of an inch. Whether this is an americanism, or because of the difficulty in switching enough components simultaneously to drive demand, I don't know. But don't underestimate the power of Legacy - I'm sure this isn't the only example.
The point, which I admit, I didn't make very well is that the carrier frequency is not relevant to bandwidth, except maybe in practical terms at the physical layer. The original poster supposed that in order to up the bandwidth, you have to transmit at a higher carrier frequency. This, to the best of my knowledge, is untrue, and I don't see anything in your quote which contradicts this.
No, higher bandwidth means higher bandwidth - i.e. the range of frequencies used for transmission of information is wider. The frequency used is irrelevant from the point of view of capacity. A 0-100MHz channel has the same capacity as a 1GHz-1.1GHz channel. Of course physical transmission varies widely at different frequencies, as you point out, but there's no fundamental relationship between capacity and frequency.
What about the white powdery stuff? That wouldn't be so bad. Well, apart from the henchmen with guns, maybe.
Why bother with the power lines at all, just run the fiber cables, then set up a MPLampS network (RFC3251)
Imagine being fried by a stray IP packet
That's just paranoid. The real reason they are colorising the images is because the Viking landings were faked, and now all the images from successful landings have to be altered to look like the Viking images, just to hide the sinister truth.
You'd be mourning too if you were being drunk by Dubya
I think the big mistake is that people keep talking about "the embedded market" as if it's sensible to lump a DVD player, a heart monitor and a fly-by-wire system into the same one-size-fits-all category.
It's the "MHz myth" all over again. The moral is: big numbers shift units.
Imagine how big you could make a Minesweeper board on this baby!
Personally, I'm going to wait for the tPC (Tremendously Personal Computer)
Because when you write a GUI which must be easy to use, you have to trade off flexibility for useability. The GUI is designed so that the average user finds it easy to use. The problem is a lot of people aren't the average user, so you find that in order to carry out the task you have to navigate through a plethora of menu options, or worse, do something which should be automated manually over and over again. IMHO, this is something fundamentally broken in the whole ease-of-use idea - it's only easy to use if you're doing exactly what the designers want you to do.
When that happens, I just imagine the action is taking place in another universe in which the characters are several light years tall.
What matters is that most people who make business decisions to use commercial software believe that the vendor is liable, and continue to believe it despite any evidence to the contrary, such as "we do not guarantee that this software will do what it is designed to do".
Assuming, of course, that the differences between the two genome sequences are greater than the difference between two animals in the same species.
They probably need the fuel - that's why they have it in the first place. There are no petrol stations on antarctica - all fuel and supplies have to be shipped from civilisation at high cost, and this must be planned for in advance. He should have been carrying a contingency supply of fuel, or should have arranged to have more shipped to the base just in case.