when the author was complaining about the FPU being sub-par, he was comparing it to other workstation processors of the day. He mentioned RISC machines a few times...
98SE was more stable than any version of 95, particularly 95a(the upgrade version). Although, I can't imagine taking a machine that was originally a wfw3.11 install (read as old hardware) and installing win98 on it. It would choke, starve for resources, fall over and die.
My apartment manager says it's no problem if we want a satellite dish. (well, the law would compel her if she said otherwise)
However, they demand that we purchase a renters insurance policy that would cover, in effect, the entire building, should something go wrong (a lightning strike, for example). The requirement stated some rediculous multi $100k dollar amount.
My younger sister is a park ranger for the Forestry Service on the west coast. She carries both a.40SW and the largest container of pepper spray they make. If you ask her about the pepper spray, she'll say "Oh, that's for bears..."
Hunting (you need a big handgun).
Protection... from animals. I WILL NOT hike in certain parts of the country without a gun, or at least a big can of police/military grade pepper spray.
Target practice. Granted, this can be argued to be a form of practice for killing humans... But, many people find it, in and of itself, to be fun, challenging, and a good stress relief.
Read the article... The lift vehicles are powered by a 'friggin lazer : )
No, seriously. It would be U.S. property located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Can we say Navy?
They'd be trying to hit a tether 15cm wide by a few um thick. It's made of the strongest material known to man. Not to mention it would be under tension. That'd be a hard thing to hit and destroy.
Another thing to consider: One of the early tasks assigned to the tether would be construction of a second tether. So, one is destroyed. Any payloads currently being lifted would be lost. Anything attached to the anchor point in space would be lost. Launch capability would still exist due to the redundancy. Eventually there will be tethers located all around the equator.
This was covered in some of the earlier papers. While carbon is not affected much by radiation, the ribbon would be affected (there's no argument there).
To quote the original Bradley Edwards paper "The Space Elevator",
"The segments of the cable in Earth's radiation belts will experience less than 3Mrad per year (energetic electrons and protons) [Daly, 1996]. Studies of epoxy/carbon fiber composites (epoxy/nanotube composites would be expected to be comparable or better) have found them to be radiation hard to greater than 10^4 Mrad [Egusa, 1990: Bouquet, 1979]. This would allow them to survive more than 1000 years in the expected environment"
To survive the atomic oxygen, it was proposed the ribbon be coated with a thin layer of metal (aluminum, nickel or gold) between.02 and 20 microns thick. This would only be applied where atomic oxygen is a likely hazard
Finally, it is understood that the ribbon will degrade over time despite best efforts, due to radiation, electric discharges, micrometeorite damage, fiber/epoxy failures, etc. They talked about a plan to periodically inspect, and, if necessary, reinforce the ribbon with additional strands of material.
That's the problem with rent-a-cops. If it had been me, I would have confiscated the camera (to be returned as you exited the gates.) and destroyed the disk(s) in front of you... Oh, and you would have been "escorted" off the ship.
are banned in many government labs where security is an issue. That would include your USB device as well as an iPod.
Lets put the iPod into perspective: one of the researches (the name escapes me), who was working on the human genome project, used an iPod to carry around the genome. He found the iPod data transfer was faster than using the network to download the data. If it can carry the human genome, it certainly could carry out a huge amount of corporate (or government) data.
based on what I saw of your website and the fact that you ARE dealing with 1TB a month, I'm going to assume you're doing serious professional work. Given that that is true, you need a professional solution to guard your data. Don't take any shortcuts, your data is your business, isn't it? Why would you risk your business on half-assed hack solutions.
You NEED a serious raid array. Raid 5 or possibly even Raid 50. You NEED to implement snapshots on your dev space. You NEED a serious tape drive, probably a robotic system.
1.) the restored site to a one year old... Definitely a good thing.
2.) The Pakistani couple had the work done in an Indian hospital by Indian doctors using Indian donors. Ok, it happens all the time; but, given the political climate in that part of the world, this is worth mentioning too.
Picture one computer, one toddler (who's noticed the eject button on the cd drive of the computer), and one new pad of post-it notes. After a little determined effort, the entire pad of post-it notes was stuffed nicely into the drive; and, with a little more effort, the drive door is closed...
It's not BS. Although it's not Zinc, growth of copper or iron wiskers inside high-tension transformers (as in the ones used by the electric utilities) is one of the reason they fail.
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I write test stand software and firmware for instrumentation. I just don't understand why this is so damn difficult. It seems like a no-brainer to me.
Please don't repeat this to anyone else; so, you don't look like a fool. Oops, too late (as millions of /.'ers read your post)
when the author was complaining about the FPU being sub-par, he was comparing it to other workstation processors of the day. He mentioned RISC machines a few times...
Therefore, be happy with what you've got now... this message brought to you on /. by a 1.0GHz PIII.
the very reason will always refer to them as Packard Hell.
I hated fixing those...
98SE was more stable than any version of 95, particularly 95a(the upgrade version). Although, I can't imagine taking a machine that was originally a wfw3.11 install (read as old hardware) and installing win98 on it. It would choke, starve for resources, fall over and die.
intel did have a 486-DX4. Two versions actually; as, one was a clock tripler (33MHz x 3) and one was a clock quadrupler (25MHz x 4).
What makes me laugh, though, is I can't help but think they're trying to build a *nix emulation layer for win32/winFX vis-a-vis Wine.
Edison was a strictly for profit dude. Ever heard of Edison Electric a.k.a. G.E.?
However, they demand that we purchase a renters insurance policy that would cover, in effect, the entire building, should something go wrong (a lightning strike, for example). The requirement stated some rediculous multi $100k dollar amount.
Compilers. Because coding in hex blows.
My younger sister is a park ranger for the Forestry Service on the west coast. She carries both a .40SW and the largest container of pepper spray they make. If you ask her about the pepper spray, she'll say "Oh, that's for bears..."
I was the geek of the family.
Hunting (you need a big handgun).
Protection... from animals. I WILL NOT hike in certain parts of the country without a gun, or at least a big can of police/military grade pepper spray.
Target practice. Granted, this can be argued to be a form of practice for killing humans... But, many people find it, in and of itself, to be fun, challenging, and a good stress relief.
No, seriously. It would be U.S. property located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Can we say Navy?
They'd be trying to hit a tether 15cm wide by a few um thick. It's made of the strongest material known to man. Not to mention it would be under tension. That'd be a hard thing to hit and destroy.
Another thing to consider: One of the early tasks assigned to the tether would be construction of a second tether. So, one is destroyed. Any payloads currently being lifted would be lost. Anything attached to the anchor point in space would be lost. Launch capability would still exist due to the redundancy. Eventually there will be tethers located all around the equator.
To quote the original Bradley Edwards paper "The Space Elevator",
"The segments of the cable in Earth's radiation belts will experience less than 3Mrad per year (energetic electrons and protons) [Daly, 1996]. Studies of epoxy/carbon fiber composites (epoxy/nanotube composites would be expected to be comparable or better) have found them to be radiation hard to greater than 10^4 Mrad [Egusa, 1990: Bouquet, 1979]. This would allow them to survive more than 1000 years in the expected environment"
To survive the atomic oxygen, it was proposed the ribbon be coated with a thin layer of metal (aluminum, nickel or gold) between .02 and 20 microns thick. This would only be applied where atomic oxygen is a likely hazard
Finally, it is understood that the ribbon will degrade over time despite best efforts, due to radiation, electric discharges, micrometeorite damage, fiber/epoxy failures, etc. They talked about a plan to periodically inspect, and, if necessary, reinforce the ribbon with additional strands of material.
You must have missed the part where he was on a military ship in a secure area. This isn't a problem :/
That's the problem with rent-a-cops. If it had been me, I would have confiscated the camera (to be returned as you exited the gates.) and destroyed the disk(s) in front of you... Oh, and you would have been "escorted" off the ship.
Lets put the iPod into perspective: one of the researches (the name escapes me), who was working on the human genome project, used an iPod to carry around the genome. He found the iPod data transfer was faster than using the network to download the data. If it can carry the human genome, it certainly could carry out a huge amount of corporate (or government) data.
You NEED a serious raid array. Raid 5 or possibly even Raid 50. You NEED to implement snapshots on your dev space. You NEED a serious tape drive, probably a robotic system.
1.) the restored site to a one year old... Definitely a good thing.
2.) The Pakistani couple had the work done in an Indian hospital by Indian doctors using Indian donors. Ok, it happens all the time; but, given the political climate in that part of the world, this is worth mentioning too.
He reached for the ball on the table in front of him. He'd have never known the ball was there if he couldn't see it.
Picture one computer, one toddler (who's noticed the eject button on the cd drive of the computer), and one new pad of post-it notes. After a little determined effort, the entire pad of post-it notes was stuffed nicely into the drive; and, with a little more effort, the drive door is closed...
and more than once I've had to solder a new connector onto someone's IDE hard drive after they ben/pushed in/broke a pin...
but it won't stand up to a toddler whose managed to get ahold of a phillips screwdriver. Put a nice big chip in the monitor, he did.
It's not BS. Although it's not Zinc, growth of copper or iron wiskers inside high-tension transformers (as in the ones used by the electric utilities) is one of the reason they fail.