Tether in space is much more important in space walks than seat belt in your car. It is simply a safety issue. Devices which help maneuvering, like gas-guns, may fail, or may be lost. Even White was tethered during his experiments with Hand-Held Self-Maneuvering Unit . Soviets also experimented with such devices, but they are not as essential in space walks as you think, and certainly do not eliminate the need in tethers.
Now if you jab the electrodes into your heart you might get 1.2A over your heart,
It really matters whether the current flows from your leg to arm or from one arm to another (through heart).
The electric current makes your muscles spasm. In particular, electric shock to your heart may stop as well as restart your heart. Of course, after long enough time, tissues may get fried...
As a person whose native language is not English, but who has a Powerbook with access to Internet, I just had to translate this (rather awkward, but literal)...
The PC is merely a substitute [succedaneum] for satisfying the emotional frenzy [nympholepsy] of unbelievers [nullifidians]. Expressing individuality [haecceity] of the handbook [enchiridion] of not widely [arcane] and easily [recondite] understood elements of the Mac totality [gestalt] appeals to the insane desire to buy things [oniomania] of a select (or chosen?) [eximious] community [Gemeinschaft] whose agility of mind [legerity] and excellence of character [sophrosyne], whose knowledge (or feeling?) of language [Sprachgefühl] and striving aspect of mind [orexis] find more than passing away quickly [fugacious] fullment(???) in its producing happiness [felicific] experience.
Very funny indeed. I admit, I didn't know all the words in [brackets].
To this day, I still have no idea who or what was responsible for the name "Pentium," but I suppose it no longer matters. A question that's still worth asking, though, is why the Pentium name has stuck around as the brand name for Intel's main processor product line through no less than four major architectural changes.
Vladimir Pentkovski is a Principal Engineer in the Microprocessor Product Group in Folsom. He was one of the architects in the core team, which defined the Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions of IA-32 architecture. Vladimir led the development of Pentium III processor architecture and performance analysis. Previously he led the development of compilers and software and hardware support for programming languages for Elbrus multi-processor computers in Russia. Vladimir holds a Doctor of Science degree and Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Russia.
One guy (not me) had so many accidents, he became legendary in the institute (somewhere in Russia) where he worked. Unfortunately I haven't heard all the stories about him, and I forgot many stories which I knew. Here are some which I still remember.
This guy didn't have many priviliges on some uber computer with OS/2. In particular he could not reformat his ZIP-disc. So he rebooted into BIOS and used its formatting utility to format the disc. Of course after a while, he realized that the process was taking too long for a small ZIPdisc, and voila all the data and code were lost.
He wrote a program, which was supposed to simulate some ocean currents. Of course, he added backup ability, so that in case of a shutdown, he could restart it from the last backup, losing 24h of work at most. After about a week, he analyzed the backup data and made two conclusions. First, due to a bug in backup subroutine, he would not get any intermediate results properly, so he has to wait till the program finishes to get final results. Second, it would take about 2 months of continuous uptime (not a very big issue since they used unix). He had two options, to fix the bug and restart (losing 1week of computations) or wait for two months and pray. He chose the second, and sure enough computer went down in about a month (don't remember the reason).
The last, but not the least. The guy took part in Soviet expedition, part of big oceanological survey. They sailed from Vladivostok to somewhere near South America. They had some steel rope 2-3km long, which had some expensive devices every 1m or so. They planned to drift for a few months collecting data from these devices placed at different depths. Well, they let the guy operate the crane, he hit a wrong button, creating unbearable tension which tore the rope, thus they lost all the equipment before they even began to collect data. The ship had to return. The expedition cost several $mil (in 1970s).
I remember a friend who tried to pull a prank too. His computer was back to back to some other guy's computer on a desk, so at some moment he switched keyboards. The other guy tried to type something and failed and called for the teacher to help him. When the teacher stopped by, my friend started typing some stupid things.
And the number-one Google result for "fastest processor currently available" claimed it to be the Athlon 1.3GHz.
Don't you know about very clever advertisement algorithms, which Google is using? Next time, if you try searching for "fastest processor currently available", using Athlon 1.3GHz, Google will return Athlon 1.4GHz.
This is about your internet banking passwords, people! Your hard earned money is at stake here!
In most cases, if you login into your bank, you can not see your private information, except for the balances on your accounts (your name and phone number, and even bank account number [printed on all your checks] are public information). In most cases, you are able just to transfer money back and forth between accounts. In some cases they give you access to some good mutual funds. Potentially you can lose money on fees for bank transactions, but your bank will likely reimburse those fees if they find out about unauthorized access.
The situation is much worse with online casinos, forex accounts, but these are scams to begin with. Some of them require using proprietary software, which could also be prone to SSL or other exploits. Online trading companies like ameritrade/datek is where you can lose real hard earned money, and wait indefinitely long for some partial reimbursement after all investigations are complete.
What people don't realize, thay pay for internet twice. Most of the people pay subscription fees to ISPs, on the other end, people who provide the content forced to pay for web hosting. What is really bizzare is that the more popular your web site is, (i.e. more people go online to browse it, and consequently produce higher revenues for ISPs) the more you pay for the traffic to your web site.
That reminded me of one way to influence a nation in order to start a war (with any country) or a revolution.
You pick time when police is on low level of alert say Sun/Mon night, and pick 100 big cities. Place 1000 sealed coffins wrapped in US flags on central plazas/streets in each of the cities. You place a guard for each coffin. Every 100s coffin is open showing a body in military uniform.
Immediately start a tv campaign about a major attack on US military installation(s) somewhere in the world, and any type of propaganda you wish, global mobilization, government coup, whatever you want.
It'll just take 100 corpses and 10000 mercs to change public's opinion on wars in a matter of hours. Next day you can start drafting everyone, enlisting volunteers, shipping troops, even training kamikazes.
At first, I thought that Open Source experiences a paradigm shift, sort of a revolution in its dynamics. After RingTFA I realized that Open Source is a paradigm shift in computer technology. Duh.
While it is a cool demo, it is far from 3d. What it allows to do is to rotate planes of applications, be able to look at the apps from different angles, including from behind. It is far from 3d, because it doesnt allow to fold the application's plane, just rotate it, well how about nonplanar surfaces? Desktop will become 3d when I'll be able to create origami out of planar applications and do whatever i like (...words fail to describe what i imagined...) with 3d applications.
There are ~5mil total registered users, and ~500k active users (at least 1 result in last 4 weeks). I guess there are >100k users who are die hard fans, running it 24/7 on all their machines. Likely those will be first to upgrade, followed by the rest of them. Possibly, many of inactive users might come back with this upgrade.
In conclusion, you might see spikes in the userbase in short term, but it won't affect long term dynamics.
Some other numbers important to remember, 1mile~1609meters, so it is easy now to calculate that 1 mile = 1609m/2.54cm~63346 inches
In another example, if you are puzzled, dont know how many ounces are in pound. Easy, just remember 1 ounce~ 28grams, and a pound ~450grams, so 1 pound ~ 16.07 ounces.
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Tether in space is much more important in space walks than seat belt in your car. It is simply a safety issue. Devices which help maneuvering, like gas-guns, may fail, or may be lost. Even White was tethered during his experiments with Hand-Held Self-Maneuvering Unit . Soviets also experimented with such devices, but they are not as essential in space walks as you think, and certainly do not eliminate the need in tethers.
first space station - Salyut 1 (June 7, 1971, USSR)
Nearly all Soviet space walks were tethered and nonpropelled, that didn't stop them to do LOTS of useful work in orbit.
It really matters whether the current flows from your leg to arm or from one arm to another (through heart). The electric current makes your muscles spasm. In particular, electric shock to your heart may stop as well as restart your heart. Of course, after long enough time, tissues may get fried...
Plus an hour or so to speed up and slow down.
This guy didn't have many priviliges on some uber computer with OS/2. In particular he could not reformat his ZIP-disc. So he rebooted into BIOS and used its formatting utility to format the disc. Of course after a while, he realized that the process was taking too long for a small ZIPdisc, and voila all the data and code were lost.
He wrote a program, which was supposed to simulate some ocean currents. Of course, he added backup ability, so that in case of a shutdown, he could restart it from the last backup, losing 24h of work at most. After about a week, he analyzed the backup data and made two conclusions. First, due to a bug in backup subroutine, he would not get any intermediate results properly, so he has to wait till the program finishes to get final results. Second, it would take about 2 months of continuous uptime (not a very big issue since they used unix). He had two options, to fix the bug and restart (losing 1week of computations) or wait for two months and pray. He chose the second, and sure enough computer went down in about a month (don't remember the reason).
The last, but not the least. The guy took part in Soviet expedition, part of big oceanological survey. They sailed from Vladivostok to somewhere near South America. They had some steel rope 2-3km long, which had some expensive devices every 1m or so. They planned to drift for a few months collecting data from these devices placed at different depths. Well, they let the guy operate the crane, he hit a wrong button, creating unbearable tension which tore the rope, thus they lost all the equipment before they even began to collect data. The ship had to return. The expedition cost several $mil (in 1970s).
Result? He failed that class.
It does have BSOD as a screensaver.
Don't you know about very clever advertisement algorithms, which Google is using? Next time, if you try searching for "fastest processor currently available", using Athlon 1.3GHz, Google will return Athlon 1.4GHz.
Yeah, let's give them all names
Cassini/Huygens probes: a horse with a tick
ISS: a white elephant
Spirit/Opportunity: beetles
...
In most cases, if you login into your bank, you can not see your private information, except for the balances on your accounts (your name and phone number, and even bank account number [printed on all your checks] are public information). In most cases, you are able just to transfer money back and forth between accounts. In some cases they give you access to some good mutual funds. Potentially you can lose money on fees for bank transactions, but your bank will likely reimburse those fees if they find out about unauthorized access.
The situation is much worse with online casinos, forex accounts, but these are scams to begin with. Some of them require using proprietary software, which could also be prone to SSL or other exploits. Online trading companies like ameritrade/datek is where you can lose real hard earned money, and wait indefinitely long for some partial reimbursement after all investigations are complete.
What people don't realize, thay pay for internet twice. Most of the people pay subscription fees to ISPs, on the other end, people who provide the content forced to pay for web hosting. What is really bizzare is that the more popular your web site is, (i.e. more people go online to browse it, and consequently produce higher revenues for ISPs) the more you pay for the traffic to your web site.
That reminded me of one way to influence a nation in order to start a war (with any country) or a revolution.
You pick time when police is on low level of alert say Sun/Mon night, and pick 100 big cities. Place 1000 sealed coffins wrapped in US flags on central plazas/streets in each of the cities. You place a guard for each coffin. Every 100s coffin is open showing a body in military uniform.
Immediately start a tv campaign about a major attack on US military installation(s) somewhere in the world, and any type of propaganda you wish, global mobilization, government coup, whatever you want.
It'll just take 100 corpses and 10000 mercs to change public's opinion on wars in a matter of hours. Next day you can start drafting everyone, enlisting volunteers, shipping troops, even training kamikazes.
At first, I thought that Open Source experiences a paradigm shift, sort of a revolution in its dynamics. After RingTFA I realized that Open Source is a paradigm shift in computer technology. Duh.
While it is a cool demo, it is far from 3d. What it allows to do is to rotate planes of applications, be able to look at the apps from different angles, including from behind. It is far from 3d, because it doesnt allow to fold the application's plane, just rotate it, well how about nonplanar surfaces? Desktop will become 3d when I'll be able to create origami out of planar applications and do whatever i like (...words fail to describe what i imagined...) with 3d applications.
Radioactive waste is not poisonous, it is mutagenic.
Redmond, we have an issue.
In conclusion, you might see spikes in the userbase in short term, but it won't affect long term dynamics.
If you remember what think tanks operate with, you are not quite right, Slashdot doesn't lack sophistry. It does lack logic though...
Some other numbers important to remember, 1mile~1609meters, so it is easy now to calculate that 1 mile = 1609m/2.54cm~63346 inches
In another example, if you are puzzled, dont know how many ounces are in pound. Easy, just remember 1 ounce~ 28grams, and a pound ~450grams, so 1 pound ~ 16.07 ounces.
But some win more than others.
When they change the definition (and they will eventually), can they revoke the astronaut status?