Or maybe only Austrians should be allowed to use E=MC^2 ?
No, that would be the Swiss. All the other countries in the world will be receiving a bill soon.
Disclaimer: It was a Swiss patent clerk who came up with the formula, but it was the US that provided the first implementation of it (see Chicago, 1942).
My personnal opinion is that Internet should be managed by a, say, Bureau of the Internet in the UN, with representatives of several countries, elected or nominated for a few years. Their decisions would have to be approved by the UN assembly
And their first act would be to blame Israel for everything wrong with the 'Net and officially ban them from the 'Net.
This is a very important consideration in any engineering exercise, however, when have the SSME's ever been a cause of failure? To the contrary, don't they have an excellent performance track record?
That was Feynman's point. The assumption that because we haven't had problems with the SSMEs yet, we won't have any in the future.
also, leave the person submitting the dupe listed to face the wrath of the karma gods.
No, the duplicate submitter has no clue that some other/.er has submitted the same story. It's the editor who needs to face the wrath.
Let's say you and I both read the same story in the WSJ. We both think this is a cool story. We both submit it. Zonk reads my submission and thinks it's cool enough to accept. Similarly, CowboyNeal reads yours and accepts it after Zonk has already accepted mine. Do you deserve The Wrath of Karma (<SHATNER>"KARRRRRMAAAA! KARRRRRRMAAAAA!</SHATNER>) because CowboyNeal didn't check the front page?
I'm surprised that they based it in NC. HP already has a world-class storage division based in Colorado Springs (it was the old Compaq storage division).
When I worked at a FibreChannel startup, we did a lot of work with those guys.
Good point, I hadn't thought of that. My inspiration was from Stephen Baxter's "Voyage", where he has a Saturn V-B, which is a Saturn V with 4 strapon SRBs, for extra lift.
The HLV is five (!) SSMEs fueled by a large ET directly above. The cargo area is inlined above this, with a protective shell and nav rocket. Two SRBs are attached to the side of the rocket.
I wonder if it would be possible to come up with an EHLV rev ("Extra Heavy"...) with four SRBs strapped on instead of 2. That would give an extra 6.6Million pounds of thrust.
No, it's not an excuse to do nothing. It's a valid, logical, *reason* not to have Consumers Union (the people behind Consumer Reports) do it.
Voting machines/equipment should still be validated, preferably by anyone who wants to. It should only use FLOSS, hardware specs should be publicly available, and hardware/software should be validated by the Secretary of State (or whoever is the supreme election official -- n.b. SecState is CA's) of that particular State. Voting machines should not use a hard disk image to boot from, but should boot from a validated read only image (CD-ROM).
But no, it's not an excuse to do nothing.
Seriously, ConsumerReports buys off-the-shelf so vendors won't have a chance to cheat by giving "nicer" equipment to the CU Labs -- they get what the consumer gets. It also avoids conflict-of-interest in getting kit from vendors. CoE is also why they accept no advertising (have you *ever* seen a bad review in PCMag/PCWorld?).
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Or maybe only Austrians should be allowed to use E=MC^2 ?
No, that would be the Swiss. All the other countries in the world will be receiving a bill soon.
Disclaimer: It was a Swiss patent clerk who came up with the formula, but it was the US that provided the first implementation of it (see Chicago, 1942).
My personnal opinion is that Internet should be managed by a, say, Bureau of the Internet in the UN, with representatives of several countries, elected or nominated for a few years. Their decisions would have to be approved by the UN assembly
And their first act would be to blame Israel for everything wrong with the 'Net and officially ban them from the 'Net.
That's what I was trying to get at with this article.
This is a very important consideration in any engineering exercise, however, when have the SSME's ever been a cause of failure? To the contrary, don't they have an excellent performance track record?
That was Feynman's point. The assumption that because we haven't had problems with the SSMEs yet, we won't have any in the future.
also, leave the person submitting the dupe listed to face the wrath of the karma gods.
/.er has submitted the same story. It's the editor who needs to face the wrath.
No, the duplicate submitter has no clue that some other
Let's say you and I both read the same story in the WSJ. We both think this is a cool story. We both submit it. Zonk reads my submission and thinks it's cool enough to accept. Similarly, CowboyNeal reads yours and accepts it after Zonk has already accepted mine. Do you deserve The Wrath of Karma (<SHATNER>"KARRRRRMAAAA! KARRRRRRMAAAAA!</SHATNER>) because CowboyNeal didn't check the front page?
It's an old problem - get too many people working on something or on too big of something and eventually communication breaks down.
It's known as Brooks' Law. He makes a big point of this in the Mythical Man-Month.
"The Jetsons" makes the list, but DS9 doesn't? What kind of crack did these guys buy from CowboyNeal?
I'm surprised that they based it in NC. HP already has a world-class storage division based in Colorado Springs (it was the old Compaq storage division).
When I worked at a FibreChannel startup, we did a lot of work with those guys.
So what's he going to use to staple the proper cover on his TPS reports?
Good point, I hadn't thought of that. My inspiration was from Stephen Baxter's "Voyage", where he has a Saturn V-B, which is a Saturn V with 4 strapon SRBs, for extra lift.
The HLV is five (!) SSMEs fueled by a large ET directly above. The cargo area is inlined above this, with a protective shell and nav rocket. Two SRBs are attached to the side of the rocket.
I wonder if it would be possible to come up with an EHLV rev ("Extra Heavy"...) with four SRBs strapped on instead of 2. That would give an extra 6.6Million pounds of thrust.
No, it's not an excuse to do nothing. It's a valid, logical, *reason* not to have Consumers Union (the people behind Consumer Reports) do it.
Voting machines/equipment should still be validated, preferably by anyone who wants to. It should only use FLOSS, hardware specs should be publicly available, and hardware/software should be validated by the Secretary of State (or whoever is the supreme election official -- n.b. SecState is CA's) of that particular State. Voting machines should not use a hard disk image to boot from, but should boot from a validated read only image (CD-ROM).
But no, it's not an excuse to do nothing.
Seriously, ConsumerReports buys off-the-shelf so vendors won't have a chance to cheat by giving "nicer" equipment to the CU Labs -- they get what the consumer gets. It also avoids conflict-of-interest in getting kit from vendors. CoE is also why they accept no advertising (have you *ever* seen a bad review in PCMag/PCWorld?).
Quote is from Heinlein, specifically the notebooks of Lazarus Long.
The problem with this is that they purchase "off-the-shelf", without telling the vendor that they are CR.
I doubt they could buy a voting machine off-the-shelf.
So that they won't make the RIAA mad, and they can use DRM inline.
Your pun, while integral to the joke, seems rather derivative. Obviously a sine of the apocalypse.
Your pun, while integral to the joke, seems rather derivative...
Nah, Amazon has the patent on that.
"Rights that are not enumerated/defined/interpreted don't exist, pure and simple."
Bullshit.
The Ninth Amendment:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
And prior to that there was "write", which worked on Sys III and V7 machines.
The 3.6 CD in "Knoppix Hacks" works fairly well.
Unit conflict
USB 2.0 = 480Mbps = 60MBps
PATA EIDE = 133MBps
I have no idea what SATA data rates are, but they're bits per second rather than bytes.
Do *NOT* get UMAX. They don't provide free updates and support, and you absolutely cannot get most of their scanners to work under SANE/XSANE.
There are places that will do it, for a (hefty) fee.
Example.
Bloody slashdot...
Should read:
What the hell is <strings.h>
Shouldn't he #include cstdlib and cstring instead of stdlib.h and string.h (assuming that's what the typo was), not to mention including <string>
What the hell is ?
Shouldn't his template use instead of and instead of , not to mention probably #include'ing ?