Before very long -- we're talking seconds here -- the remaining charge falls below the noise level. No recovery possible.
Before very long -- we're talking seconds here -- the remaining charge (statistically speaking) falls below 1 electron. No recovery possible.
Sense circuits aren't perfectly balanced down to the last electron. This also makes recovery from memory and CPU registers more difficult.
Flash memory keeps its data. Battery backed RAM keeps its data. Physically large (1970 technology) CMOS flipflops usually keep data down to 1/10 volt or so. Other than that, nobody on earth will recover significant chunks of data from the semiconductors in a computer that's been off for as long as it takes to open the case.
Leaks tend to happen when things are being covered up that should not be covered up.
Irrelevant. Leaks come from spying, errors by people who know better or should know better, and people who believe that they are uncovering things that shouldn't be covered up.
The propriety of leaking the information bears no relation to the leak, only the belief in the propriety does.
bin Laden was naked evil. The 9/11 attackers were vile, but this general practice of calling them or various other killers cowardly is contrary to fact. Someone who risks his own life or severe punishment to accomplish some goal, no matter how nasty, is not likely to be a coward.
Whether an assassination had any practical effect is determined by the particular conditions, especially whether the person in question was in tune with his times or not. If he was merely the leader of a dominant and popular movement, and killing him meant replacing him with someone with the same goals but different capabilities, there wasn't be a lot of change. If the new leader was different in some important manner, changes became greater. If he was a leader against the popular will and his replacement opposes him, things change.
Guevara. A meaningless destroyer, his death meant nothing.
JFK. His successor was more corrupt and more dictatorial, and things became much worse. His assassination definitely changed the world.
Rasputin. A rotten fool influencing a bad regime, he hastened the decline of the Romanovs. His death removed that accelerant, nothing more.
Lincoln. The leader of a popular movement (in the North), his death transferred power to Andrew Johnson, unpopular, not politically powerful, and with views on reconstruction that differed from Lincoln. Lincoln's murder brought forth demands for a harsh reprisal against the South. As a result, the reconstruction was much more punitive than it would have been had Lincoln survived. Also, it caused Lincolnism to become the unofficial religion of Illinois.
Ghandi. A man of his times who got in front of a historical trend. His death made little difference.
Franz Ferdinand. His death precipitated WWI. Europe was something of a chaotic tinderbox, so it's impossible to say how this changed things, other than making the war start sooner. As far as I can tell, he did not represent any particular political or philosophical trend, so saying that his assassination was supposed to change the world is curious at best.
Consider Julius Caesar. His assassination was supposed to destroy his personal power (obviously successful) and restore the Roman republic, preventing the advance of a dictatorial regime. The assassination delayed the transfer to dictatorship, but did not end the inevitable trend.
Individuals matter, but it's not always the obvious person who marks a turning point in history. The American Civil War would have lasted a lot longer had Stonewall Jackson not been killed. Ideas matter. How different would history be if someone had the good judgement to murder a teenaged Karl Marx?
In any case, we're playing a very difficult game of "What If". It's complicated
Thinking the death of Bin Laden will change anything is like thinking the death of Roosevelt in 1945 meant the end of WW2.
When FDR died in April 1945, the Germans were for all practical purposes defeated. The "official" end of the Western war was in May 1945. The US was not the only Allied power. Japan didn't give up until August, but they were in rapid retreat in April, and only a fool would have stopped fighting then.
The Israeli experience is driven by the dramatic irrationality of its enemies. However, looking closer shows that when the Israelis convincingly defeat their enemies, a more peaceful period follows. Egypt became less of a problem when it was soundly defeated. When Israel, due to foolish or perfidious pressure from its ersatz allies, retreats or reduces the fierceness of its fighting, its enemies are emboldened and become more violent.
bin Laden was a substantial source of the money funding Islamic militarism. Removing him might reduce the capability of Islamists to fight. Just as making mind-degrading drugs legal will lower the cost of providing them, causing drug production to become unattractive to people willing to accept high risk and violence for easy money.
Why not pick a random fast talking black kid from the Cambridge streets and give him that company CEO's job and house?
The first week I lived in Cambridge my bicycle, locked to a rack at MIT, was stolen. In all likelihood a kid like the one you described committed that crime. Put him in the CEO position, and he'll be immensely corrupt and probably destroy the company. That's why not.
It depends upon the model. Speaking of speaker systems only, some used resonance to produce boomy base to impress the rubes, leaving inadequate response at deep base and low-mids.
Other speakers, particularly the long-time top-of-the-line 901s, used active compensation to extend the somewhat flat range as far to the high and low as practical. Bose used 9 cheap 5" drivers in each 901, with the result that decent response up to 20 kHz was impossible, as was low distortion and good response at 20 Hz. Due to the complication of having all those drivers and the active compensation box, A.G.Bose claimed (in the class he taught) that the profit margin on the 901s was actually quite small, and the claim seems almost reasonable to me.
Professional speaker designers at more reputable firms joke that Bose's slogan "better sound through research" should read "better sales through advertising".
The fact is that speakers that sound good in isolation appeal to large numbers of uncritical listeners, and that's where Bose does well. A competent critical listener, or someone in a position to A-B against similarly priced reputable brands, will find Bose lacking.
Very interesting. It sounds like increased velocity would be a substantial help for extreme long distance accuracy and repeatability, more so than fancy compensation for barrel changes.
Yes, that's funny, but consider: Infrared can pass through many black plastics. I even have an image intensifier that does just that. One problem is that high quality IR systems aren't cheap.
Modern websites require too much processing power. Until this January I was running Firefox 1.5.0.2 on a P3-500 (Red Hat 8) and frequently came across pages that took 2 minutes or longer to render, 100% CPU utilization, about 90% of which was Firefox.
500 Mbyte was mainstream 10 years ago, not 2. The possibility that work was being done on that machine 2 years ago does not mean that it was being done reasonably efficiently. I can do a lot of work with pencil and paper and a book of math tables, but that does not make it a good choice.
In a good company, the extra that you're willing to do pays off very well in the long run. Working an extra 20 hours a week, unpaid for, unasked for, and filling up half a bookcase with texts I bought myself (no company payback) helped take me from about $45000 a year to $105000 a year in 8 years.
Doing the same in a poor company earned me praise and promises and little else. Know your company. Know yourself.
I'm running an nVidia Quadro NVS 290. The open-source nouveau driver has a dramatic advantage over the nVidia driver: the system doesn't crash before the GUI is fully active.
I've tried a couple of the free applications that Google has made available, and they've been really inferior products. It's no surprise that they've put out yet another amateurish effort.
The tone of TFA is abhorrent. "Ooh, he must be so unhappy because he has something worthwhile to do instead of talking to me. I know I'd shrivel up and die if I couldn't get an ego boost from my comrades."
How would you expect them to deal with a public that wants to kill them?
If things are so bad that most people want to kill policemen, then I would expect them all to quit. Who would keep any job under that condition, short of a vicious dictator and his hired thugs?
A country in which most people want to kill the police has to be a truly horrid tyranny, with a desperate populace.
I suspect that DirecTV is already using all the bandwidth they have, and if they don't launch new satellites they're going to have to drop a whole lot of stuff. On demand streaming for millions of users, all asking for different content, requires an astounding amount of bandwidth.
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The US, with Obama's complicity, is doing a far better job of destroying itself that Osama bin Laden ever could.
Before very long -- we're talking seconds here -- the remaining charge falls below the noise level. No recovery possible.
Before very long -- we're talking seconds here -- the remaining charge (statistically speaking) falls below 1 electron. No recovery possible.
Sense circuits aren't perfectly balanced down to the last electron. This also makes recovery from memory and CPU registers more difficult.
Flash memory keeps its data. Battery backed RAM keeps its data. Physically large (1970 technology) CMOS flipflops usually keep data down to 1/10 volt or so. Other than that, nobody on earth will recover significant chunks of data from the semiconductors in a computer that's been off for as long as it takes to open the case.
Irrelevant. Leaks come from spying, errors by people who know better or should know better, and people who believe that they are uncovering things that shouldn't be covered up.
The propriety of leaking the information bears no relation to the leak, only the belief in the propriety does.
Sounds like those welding classes came in handy.
bin Laden was naked evil. The 9/11 attackers were vile, but this general practice of calling them or various other killers cowardly is contrary to fact. Someone who risks his own life or severe punishment to accomplish some goal, no matter how nasty, is not likely to be a coward.
Whether an assassination had any practical effect is determined by the particular conditions, especially whether the person in question was in tune with his times or not. If he was merely the leader of a dominant and popular movement, and killing him meant replacing him with someone with the same goals but different capabilities, there wasn't be a lot of change. If the new leader was different in some important manner, changes became greater. If he was a leader against the popular will and his replacement opposes him, things change.
Guevara. A meaningless destroyer, his death meant nothing.
JFK. His successor was more corrupt and more dictatorial, and things became much worse. His assassination definitely changed the world.
Rasputin. A rotten fool influencing a bad regime, he hastened the decline of the Romanovs. His death removed that accelerant, nothing more.
Lincoln. The leader of a popular movement (in the North), his death transferred power to Andrew Johnson, unpopular, not politically powerful, and with views on reconstruction that differed from Lincoln. Lincoln's murder brought forth demands for a harsh reprisal against the South. As a result, the reconstruction was much more punitive than it would have been had Lincoln survived. Also, it caused Lincolnism to become the unofficial religion of Illinois.
Ghandi. A man of his times who got in front of a historical trend. His death made little difference.
Franz Ferdinand. His death precipitated WWI. Europe was something of a chaotic tinderbox, so it's impossible to say how this changed things, other than making the war start sooner. As far as I can tell, he did not represent any particular political or philosophical trend, so saying that his assassination was supposed to change the world is curious at best.
Consider Julius Caesar. His assassination was supposed to destroy his personal power (obviously successful) and restore the Roman republic, preventing the advance of a dictatorial regime. The assassination delayed the transfer to dictatorship, but did not end the inevitable trend.
Individuals matter, but it's not always the obvious person who marks a turning point in history. The American Civil War would have lasted a lot longer had Stonewall Jackson not been killed. Ideas matter. How different would history be if someone had the good judgement to murder a teenaged Karl Marx?
In any case, we're playing a very difficult game of "What If". It's complicated
When FDR died in April 1945, the Germans were for all practical purposes defeated. The "official" end of the Western war was in May 1945. The US was not the only Allied power. Japan didn't give up until August, but they were in rapid retreat in April, and only a fool would have stopped fighting then.
The Israeli experience is driven by the dramatic irrationality of its enemies. However, looking closer shows that when the Israelis convincingly defeat their enemies, a more peaceful period follows. Egypt became less of a problem when it was soundly defeated. When Israel, due to foolish or perfidious pressure from its ersatz allies, retreats or reduces the fierceness of its fighting, its enemies are emboldened and become more violent.
bin Laden was a substantial source of the money funding Islamic militarism. Removing him might reduce the capability of Islamists to fight. Just as making mind-degrading drugs legal will lower the cost of providing them, causing drug production to become unattractive to people willing to accept high risk and violence for easy money.
The first week I lived in Cambridge my bicycle, locked to a rack at MIT, was stolen. In all likelihood a kid like the one you described committed that crime. Put him in the CEO position, and he'll be immensely corrupt and probably destroy the company. That's why not.
So you're confirming my experience when I visited Cal Tech, that their students are rude.
Bose has a long relationship with MIT. For many years he competently taught a class on acoustics, using Leo Beranek's text.
It depends upon the model. Speaking of speaker systems only, some used resonance to produce boomy base to impress the rubes, leaving inadequate response at deep base and low-mids.
Other speakers, particularly the long-time top-of-the-line 901s, used active compensation to extend the somewhat flat range as far to the high and low as practical. Bose used 9 cheap 5" drivers in each 901, with the result that decent response up to 20 kHz was impossible, as was low distortion and good response at 20 Hz. Due to the complication of having all those drivers and the active compensation box, A.G.Bose claimed (in the class he taught) that the profit margin on the 901s was actually quite small, and the claim seems almost reasonable to me.
Professional speaker designers at more reputable firms joke that Bose's slogan "better sound through research" should read "better sales through advertising".
The fact is that speakers that sound good in isolation appeal to large numbers of uncritical listeners, and that's where Bose does well. A competent critical listener, or someone in a position to A-B against similarly priced reputable brands, will find Bose lacking.
Very interesting. It sounds like increased velocity would be a substantial help for extreme long distance accuracy and repeatability, more so than fancy compensation for barrel changes.
Yes, that's funny, but consider: Infrared can pass through many black plastics. I even have an image intensifier that does just that. One problem is that high quality IR systems aren't cheap.
Modern websites require too much processing power. Until this January I was running Firefox 1.5.0.2 on a P3-500 (Red Hat 8) and frequently came across pages that took 2 minutes or longer to render, 100% CPU utilization, about 90% of which was Firefox.
500 Mbyte was mainstream 10 years ago, not 2. The possibility that work was being done on that machine 2 years ago does not mean that it was being done reasonably efficiently. I can do a lot of work with pencil and paper and a book of math tables, but that does not make it a good choice.
In a good company, the extra that you're willing to do pays off very well in the long run. Working an extra 20 hours a week, unpaid for, unasked for, and filling up half a bookcase with texts I bought myself (no company payback) helped take me from about $45000 a year to $105000 a year in 8 years.
Doing the same in a poor company earned me praise and promises and little else. Know your company. Know yourself.
I'm running an nVidia Quadro NVS 290. The open-source nouveau driver has a dramatic advantage over the nVidia driver: the system doesn't crash before the GUI is fully active.
Would you mind rephrasing that?
I've tried a couple of the free applications that Google has made available, and they've been really inferior products. It's no surprise that they've put out yet another amateurish effort.
The tone of TFA is abhorrent. "Ooh, he must be so unhappy because he has something worthwhile to do instead of talking to me. I know I'd shrivel up and die if I couldn't get an ego boost from my comrades."
If things are so bad that most people want to kill policemen, then I would expect them all to quit. Who would keep any job under that condition, short of a vicious dictator and his hired thugs?
A country in which most people want to kill the police has to be a truly horrid tyranny, with a desperate populace.
I suspect that DirecTV is already using all the bandwidth they have, and if they don't launch new satellites they're going to have to drop a whole lot of stuff. On demand streaming for millions of users, all asking for different content, requires an astounding amount of bandwidth.
One word: censorship.