Back In high school I took a semester of typing, eaked out a B and could touch type 30 words a minute reasonibly well.
Then about a decade later I took a position as a programmer in a mumps shop. If you've ever worked in mumps you realize what I mean. Almost everyone I know who worked im mumps for more than a few years uses about 5 fingers and a thumb.
Anyone have a spare PDP-11/44 with DSM-11 on it? I miss those days...
Check out Shopping.com. Lots of journalists and other professional writers use them. They have the additional ability to capture commentaries from tour guides, unusual sounds, etc.
This is the fantisy he uses to fill in the gaps in his Optics education. The same phenomina can be demonstrated using waves in water. If there were water molecules entering in from another universe I'm sure we would have discovered them by now.
The four slit model simply allows areas where like waves cancel each other out, causing yet another void which other radiating waves fill.
If he were correct I'd hate to think of what high tension lines were doing in these other universes, it would be like Alan E. Nourse's 'Universe Between.'
Wouldn't it be better to make a self refridgerating beer keg? Wraps are prone to damage, while tha aluminum armor of a keg is built to take punishment. Remember it's the beer that we want to keep cool, not the keg!
Can the technology be used with the copper coils used in ice coolers? After all the goal is most often to serve cold beer.
So detection by remote electronic device is highly unlkikely. Now in a simpler vein, it should be detectable by weight, or x-ray.
Considering that most of the actual land mass does not have coverage, they have obviously decided to 'urbanize' the experience. Hope they don't get a drug dealer in the process (although it would be funny).
It's been a quite while since Hollywood put out anything worth downloading. If anything, MGM should pay these folks for their heroic efforts in advertising; in that they might inspire the uninspired to return to the theaters. Most of the interesting parts of the movies are already beamed directly into almost every American household in the form of trailers. What these people are doing is showing an enthusiasm for the whole of the production (no matter how bad it is) and quite possibly encouraging the downloaders to actually make the pilgrimage to the theater to voluntarily part with someone's hard earned cash.
Programmers have put a lot of time and effort into the VM swapping algorithm; mostly with the intention of being prepared to have a lot of memory ready and waiting for the next thing it will be asked to do. Unfortunately that's not so much of an issue with cheap ram and disk storage and faster and faster front side buses. What we really need is more intelligent swapping, which can only come about when the VM gets a set of API hooks (would make for a great 'shared object') that would enable the system administrator (and maybe someday the end user) to assist an intelligent VM manager to establish priorities and consistently respect those priorities.
Unfortunately the current crop of best guess VM managers end up denying the end user the experience of their computer's peak performance. Coupled with the horrible state of application bloat, modern 'state of the art' hardware and software combine to give us less and less in terms of overall performance. Software developers throw more code at the cpu to add functionality with little or no concern for performance. And hardware manufacturers add more and more 'special instructions' and 'pipelining' which the majority of software is completely unable to access. If anything it's more like a bunch of dysfunctional co-dependents than an industry that is cogent as to what really needs to be going on. If the folks dealing with processors and the application software could take a page from the gamers (look at the high levels of integration between game engines and video cards) for example, and more effort put into consolidating functionality in dlls and shared libraries; we would be amazed at how truly fast these machines could perform.
While I don't have the answer I can offer some perspective on the question. You see that the day the key was made, there was a certain state of the art in mflops or some such thing that would represent the speed of arithmetic operations that the fastest processor could do at that time. A determination was probably made that said "In order to perform all the factor tests on a machine running X mflops it will take Y days."
But the universe refuses to maintain the 'state' in which it was in and several factors were conspiring against that estimate from the start. The estimate was based on a single processor running at a single speed with a single algorythm. Unfortunately, the evolution of the hardware, the creation of stable multi processor systems and cheap clusters, and the development of new algorythms have all conspired to have that estimate drop like a rock until it has now hit zero!
What's more important in IMHO is the life of the information protected by the key. As long as the information needs to be kept secret the key's factorial combinations should remain incalculable. In the mean time we can only say that the key's ability to protect the data is 'less than X,' where X is the current time it takes to calculate the factors of the key.
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While having a quality yo-yo is very important, I can't even count the times that I've seen even the best yo-yo with a totally shot string. The damn things have been used so much that it is no longer possible to loosten the string enought to get the yo-yo to sleepat all.
Like ancient guitar strings on collectors guitars people tend to wait until the string breaks. So check out someplace like the yoyostore and by yourself some strings, especially if you've never purchased any strings since getting your yo-yo. You'll be glad you did!
She started out by developing the industry standards, and then learned all to quickly to play Government Fat Cat. When we look back at the contributions to science that came out of Bell Labs, both in communications and computer science; it is easy to see that this was once truly an industry giant.
But like all giants, when you get used to playing 800 pound gorilla, you stop thinking and just keep throwing your weight around.
Even after it became public knowledge that Ma Bell was holding back technological advancement for their own purposes and profit, as long as the lobby on the hill kept a few important palms crossed, the tyranny continued. Finally, after a couple rounds of public humilliations and rebukes, the government was forced to order the split-up.
But very deeply imbedded in each and every part of the baby Bells was the crippling notion that they were the best and only company and that the thought of changing their behavior neven even had the slightest possibility of beginning to cross their tiny little corporate brains.
To make a long story short, their corporate egos never evolved back to being lean mean compedetive machines. If there ever was a company that should get back to it's roots of research and innovation this would have been it; but the chance is gone.
My local baby Bell, for example, relies on their internet customers to have their error checking turned off, when they visit the customer service website. As a developer I keep mine turned on and get about a half-dozen errors when each page loads, and a few more with each and every control encountered. Why is it that they still behave like the customer doesn't matter? Because in each division there is at least 1 fat cat who is more concerned with their own well being than anything else; and someone who profits by their actions does their level headed best to keep them there.
When I'm learning, experimenting etc I go for the framiliar:./configure, make, make test, sudo, make install. This is a great way to learn about the the code, dependancies etc. Also good for testing multiple versions on the same box.
However, I usually go with rpms when dealing with something like red hat ES or AS systems, primarily for the support. It can avoid 'breaking' an sbin version by accidently pointing to something in usr/local for example.
What it really comes down to is using common sense instead of being a zealot.
Polly want's a cookie that says I didn't come to the internet site to interface with a human. If I wanted that experience I would have gone to the store itself. If I ask for help; having a human around is really nice; but quite frankly I often find pushy sales assistants a bit annoying, as I'm sure others do.
Additionally I wonmder if this might actually violate federal wiretapping law in that they are tracking what I am doing on their site without my permission or informed consent.
All valid points from today's perspective on what constitutes a safe and stable fuel. However there are clearly many more unstable fuel possibilites. Perhaps a mechanism can be designed to use the stable materials to produce unstable materials in a pre-reaction chamber before introducing the unstable product to the reaction chamber. Look at the progress that's been made in chemical lasers. Just a few decades ago they were a joke, now they represent a credible advance in high power anti-missle technology. Maybe a chemical laser could act as a pump laser to excite some other highly volatile fuel into plasma.
My point here is that if we choose to believe that our 'rocket science' is the best and that there is no alternative; then we will never find one! There are a lot of possibilities out there; most of which we aren't even aware of.
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ActiveX, DirectX and of course the Xbox.
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Then about a decade later I took a position as a programmer in a mumps shop. If you've ever worked in mumps you realize what I mean. Almost everyone I know who worked im mumps for more than a few years uses about 5 fingers and a thumb.
Anyone have a spare PDP-11/44 with DSM-11 on it? I miss those days...
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Seems like a bit of an oxymoron. But then so is coolness...
shoot the tube
not to mention crashing and wipeout!
I suspect that this will be more like Burroughs Naked Lunch than like any Animatrix feature.
Sgt Pepper taught the band to play...
Where's the overlay showing the routs of Bart, Lisa, Homer and Marge & Maggie on their way home? Like in the beginning of the show?
More like Light Years=Uncertainty. Further the distance, the greater the uncertainty.
Check out Shopping.com. Lots of journalists and other professional writers use them. They have the additional ability to capture commentaries from tour guides, unusual sounds, etc.
The RIAA must have used the same research firm that helped Dub-yah miss global warming.
The four slit model simply allows areas where like waves cancel each other out, causing yet another void which other radiating waves fill.
If he were correct I'd hate to think of what high tension lines were doing in these other universes, it would be like Alan E. Nourse's 'Universe Between.'
Can the technology be used with the copper coils used in ice coolers? After all the goal is most often to serve cold beer.
but a state of mind.
So detection by remote electronic device is highly unlkikely. Now in a simpler vein, it should be detectable by weight, or x-ray. Considering that most of the actual land mass does not have coverage, they have obviously decided to 'urbanize' the experience. Hope they don't get a drug dealer in the process (although it would be funny).
It's been a quite while since Hollywood put out anything worth downloading. If anything, MGM should pay these folks for their heroic efforts in advertising; in that they might inspire the uninspired to return to the theaters. Most of the interesting parts of the movies are already beamed directly into almost every American household in the form of trailers. What these people are doing is showing an enthusiasm for the whole of the production (no matter how bad it is) and quite possibly encouraging the downloaders to actually make the pilgrimage to the theater to voluntarily part with someone's hard earned cash.
Unfortunately the current crop of best guess VM managers end up denying the end user the experience of their computer's peak performance. Coupled with the horrible state of application bloat, modern 'state of the art' hardware and software combine to give us less and less in terms of overall performance. Software developers throw more code at the cpu to add functionality with little or no concern for performance. And hardware manufacturers add more and more 'special instructions' and 'pipelining' which the majority of software is completely unable to access. If anything it's more like a bunch of dysfunctional co-dependents than an industry that is cogent as to what really needs to be going on. If the folks dealing with processors and the application software could take a page from the gamers (look at the high levels of integration between game engines and video cards) for example, and more effort put into consolidating functionality in dlls and shared libraries; we would be amazed at how truly fast these machines could perform.
Talk about your prior art!
But the universe refuses to maintain the 'state' in which it was in and several factors were conspiring against that estimate from the start. The estimate was based on a single processor running at a single speed with a single algorythm. Unfortunately, the evolution of the hardware, the creation of stable multi processor systems and cheap clusters, and the development of new algorythms have all conspired to have that estimate drop like a rock until it has now hit zero!
What's more important in IMHO is the life of the information protected by the key. As long as the information needs to be kept secret the key's factorial combinations should remain incalculable. In the mean time we can only say that the key's ability to protect the data is 'less than X,' where X is the current time it takes to calculate the factors of the key.
Like ancient guitar strings on collectors guitars people tend to wait until the string breaks. So check out someplace like the yoyostore and by yourself some strings, especially if you've never purchased any strings since getting your yo-yo. You'll be glad you did!
She started out by developing the industry standards, and then learned all to quickly to play Government Fat Cat. When we look back at the contributions to science that came out of Bell Labs, both in communications and computer science; it is easy to see that this was once truly an industry giant.
But like all giants, when you get used to playing 800 pound gorilla, you stop thinking and just keep throwing your weight around.
Even after it became public knowledge that Ma Bell was holding back technological advancement for their own purposes and profit, as long as the lobby on the hill kept a few important palms crossed, the tyranny continued. Finally, after a couple rounds of public humilliations and rebukes, the government was forced to order the split-up.
But very deeply imbedded in each and every part of the baby Bells was the crippling notion that they were the best and only company and that the thought of changing their behavior neven even had the slightest possibility of beginning to cross their tiny little corporate brains.
To make a long story short, their corporate egos never evolved back to being lean mean compedetive machines. If there ever was a company that should get back to it's roots of research and innovation this would have been it; but the chance is gone.
My local baby Bell, for example, relies on their internet customers to have their error checking turned off, when they visit the customer service website. As a developer I keep mine turned on and get about a half-dozen errors when each page loads, and a few more with each and every control encountered. Why is it that they still behave like the customer doesn't matter? Because in each division there is at least 1 fat cat who is more concerned with their own well being than anything else; and someone who profits by their actions does their level headed best to keep them there.
Whatever happened to quality of service?
However, I usually go with rpms when dealing with something like red hat ES or AS systems, primarily for the support. It can avoid 'breaking' an sbin version by accidently pointing to something in usr/local for example.
What it really comes down to is using common sense instead of being a zealot.
Additionally I wonmder if this might actually violate federal wiretapping law in that they are tracking what I am doing on their site without my permission or informed consent.
-400, hell when my wife's pissed off that'd be beach weather! ;^)
My point here is that if we choose to believe that our 'rocket science' is the best and that there is no alternative; then we will never find one! There are a lot of possibilities out there; most of which we aren't even aware of.