This happened all the time back in '83 and '84 on a VAX 11/780 at UCSC. Come the end of the quarter, the VAXen would all be overloaded (we're talking load averages over 30, with spikes up to 70).
You'd type a command, go away and get a cup of coffee, and maybe when you got back, you'd get an acknowledgement that you actually did something.
However, in tribute to the 4.2BSD guys (original Berkeley, not Open/Net/FreeBSD), even with this insane overload, the VAX... Did... Not... Crash.
I just think this is part of crappywoods attempt to combat movie piracy. They'll just make movies so bad that nobody wants to watch much less copy.
You're half right. \
1. Make movies so bad that nobody wants to go to them. 2. Complain to Congress that their profits are down because of the Evil Content Pirates(tm) 3. Get new Uber-DMCA laws passed 4. PROFIT!
And to the next poster, yeah, I remember the '60s versions of stuff... I even have an MP3 of the groovy 60's Spiderman theme song lying around somewhere on my hard drive.
He's basically hoisted on a perjury petard, but not for this one.
He testified in court that the MS and Sun Licenses were NOT SCOSource, but just straight up UnixWare licenses. However, the 10-Q they filed with the SEC in 2003 listed them as SCOSource. Novell's lawyer called him on it.
So either he's perjuring himself now, or he purjured himself when he signed the 10-Q. If the latter, he's in big trouble. The SEC does not like people who do that, plus that's a SOX violation.
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This happened all the time back in '83 and '84 on a VAX 11/780 at UCSC. Come the end of the quarter, the VAXen would all be overloaded (we're talking load averages over 30, with spikes up to 70).
You'd type a command, go away and get a cup of coffee, and maybe when you got back, you'd get an acknowledgement that you actually did something.
However, in tribute to the 4.2BSD guys (original Berkeley, not Open/Net/FreeBSD), even with this insane overload, the VAX... Did... Not... Crash.
Shouldn't that be GNU/three dimensions?
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I know it predated the Columbia tragedy. But the events of the story were, in fact, inspired by a fictional crash of Columbia.
And now that you remind me, yeah, they used a Shuttle for living space, and the Saturns to get everything into orbit.
I still think that that was among the most depressing books I've ever read, though the Manifold... series comes awfully close.
How do you save a drowning lawyer?
Throw him a rock.
They didn't use a Shuttle in Titan. Columbia's destruction was the trigger. They took all the remaining extant Saturn V's and used them.
Because VxWorks is so crappy, it's flight-certifiable.
Why is the FM tuner such a big deal to people?
Personally, I'd prefer an AM tuner, so I could listen to Angels (AM830) or Lakers (AM570) games.
Does anyone else get those autodialed "Hi. If you talk to a representative about $SALES_TOPIC, press 9"?
Aren't they illegal?
Is that a fact? Then where the heck does Cerenkov Radiation come from?
It is possible to travel faster than the speed of light in a given medium. It is not possible to exceed the speed of light in vacuum.
Given that Gwynne died in 1993, I'd guess he wasn't immortal.
Not until you suggested it.
I'm not sure what it would do, other than nothing productive or useful.
If you define that 1 KB is 1 billion bytes, then they are are really fleecing you
I'd say that i fyou define that 1KB is 1 billion bytes, then you've got bigger problems than the marketing departments of drive manufacturers.
I'd use JFS, but then I'd have to pay SCO money....
You'll note that you never see Trixie in the out-loud gasping shots... But she *is* in the car...
:)
The remainder I leave up to your filthy mind.
Exactly.
I saw the previews and I had the same issue with it that I had with the horrible Hulk film. The CGI was too obviously CGI.
I makes the willing suspension of disbelief very difficult.
I just think this is part of crappywoods attempt to combat movie piracy. They'll just make movies so bad that nobody wants to watch much less copy.
You're half right. \
1. Make movies so bad that nobody wants to go to them.
2. Complain to Congress that their profits are down because of the Evil Content Pirates(tm)
3. Get new Uber-DMCA laws passed
4. PROFIT!
Call Kevin Bacon... it's TREMORS!!!!!
Damon would probably be good, except for one question...
How will he look in a mullet?
Ha! How about going off to college?
And to the next poster, yeah, I remember the '60s versions of stuff... I even have an MP3 of the groovy 60's Spiderman theme song lying around somewhere on my hard drive.
According to Wikipedia, Slack is actually a derivative of SLS.
He's basically hoisted on a perjury petard, but not for this one.
He testified in court that the MS and Sun Licenses were NOT SCOSource, but just straight up UnixWare licenses. However, the 10-Q they filed with the SEC in 2003 listed them as SCOSource.
Novell's lawyer called him on it.
So either he's perjuring himself now, or he purjured himself when he signed the 10-Q. If the latter, he's in big trouble. The SEC does not like people who do that, plus that's a SOX violation.
And prior to Prop 13, people were being forced to sell their homes because they couldn't afford to pay the property tax on it.
Take a look at the CA state budget sometime.
There was no private ambulance. It was a red LAFD paramedic vehicle.
In L.A., too. Called 911 (my wife was having a seizure of some sort), and received a lovely bill in the mail.