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If you can remember the theme songs... see the movie. I was the only one in the theater who chuckled with I heard Rhodey's cell phone.
Thanks for the tip. Reminds me of "Phenomenom" where I was the only one in the theater who noted the joke with Forrest Whittakers call-sign (WB6QLF - the 'QLF' means 'try sending with your left foot') - the other people in the theater were giving me weird looks.
Old? Old is remembering the animated "iron Man"
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Jeez - I'm old enough to remmber the animated versions of the Marvel comics frrom the mid-60's, along with Iron Man, there was Thor, Captain America, Prince Naimor and of coure, The Hulk. What's even worse is remembering the theme songs for each of these shows.
I'd like to how long it takes to get SPICE patched to support a memristor - could be very handy in handling all sorts of hysteretic behavior in real components as opposed to ideal components.
Now for the kicker - I was introduced to SPICE in EECS 105 at good ole UCB (Winter '74) and the prof for the course was none other than Leon Chua. Thoroughly enjoyed the course and ended up getting my one and only A+ at Cal.
N.B. The license that Pederson used to distribute SPICE was probably what the CSRG used as a basis for distributing BSD.
If that's Homer as in Homer Simpson, the server name would be margedottir. In Iceland, the daughters are named after their mothers.
Iceland is probably cool enough that a well designed data center could forgo air-conditioning, unlike the eastern Oregon or eastern Washington sites popular for data centers.
Thirty seconds would be a huge help for a nuclear power plant - this would be more than enough time to start the back-up diesel generators and shut down the reactor.
Thirty seconds would also be enough time to bring most rapid transit systems to a halt - though I wouldn't want to be halted in the middle of a long tunnel, especially BART's transbay tunnel.
The stress tests involve injection of Tc-99m (140 keV gamma, half life 6 hours) to imgae the blood flow in the heart (had my fifth one about a month ago). I'm hot enough for the first few hours after the test that I should have an exclusion zone around me - and I'm noticeably above background for a couple of days. Before my last test, I warned a pregnant co-worker to not to get too close to me for the day of the test.
What got me was that the NRC regulations allow patients to go home if the exposure to others would be less than 100 milli-rem, whereas the maximum offsite exposure for a nuclear generating station is 5 milli-rem per year.
This may be fine for a bomb that is to be used shortly after manufacture, but not for a warhead that is supposed to sit in a missile silo for years. Of course, the USA wanted to use the bomb on Japan, so long-term storagewas not an issue;-)
My understanding was that the first generation (i.e. pre-1948) weapons needed to be used within 48 hours of final assembly. I would guess that there were a few other short-lived items on board such as batteries.
I also seem to remember that the DMCA being passed unanimously by both the House and the Senate before Clinton signed it into law.
My recollection was that the DMCA passed on a voice vote which is a whole different kind of animal than an unanimous vote. There's no proof that an actual majority of congress voted for the law.
You're forgetting about what happens after an interaction of a cosmic ray with an atom. In the case of the ray being a neutron, the interaction will result in a lot of kinetic energy imparted to the nucleus (called the primary knock-on atom) which will then tear off a bunch of electrons as it slows down (a heavy charged particle with a given energy will have a well defined range in matter, which is why ion implantation superceded diffusion in chip fabrication). The range of the nucleus will likely be much larger than the thickness of the chip which would allow for use of a separate detector.
Hmmm, something besides Open Boot Prompt and general Sparc goodness?
If you have an IOMMU (e.g. on a decent Sun workstation), you can set up page tables for each device so that they DMA into a virtual address space. Your driver can then define regions which the device can access transparently.
This was mentioned near the end of the Wikipedia article on firewire. Something similar was brought up in an article on Trusted Solaris being certified to operate with hot-pluggable media (USB and Firewire).
I do understand that the GPL is dependent on copyright law.
Never doubted that you did, and appologies if I came across as implying a lack of understanding on your part.
However I am not so sure that you are underestimating the number of people on Slashdot that are lacking even that half of a clue.
There have been a couple of recent articles on something directly related to what I'm doing at work - I'd be generous in saying that 1% of the posters really had a clue on what the issues were. As far as GPL relying on copyright, that has been mentioned on/. several times, so I know that some users have a clue wrt the GPL and copyright law.
I wouldn't be surprised if a few of Vilana Financial's customers felt like they've been screwed over. What do you think Vilana's chances are if the sued by one of the customers after they've been found to have already forged documents?
Looks like a lot of people missed the sarcasm in your original post. With respect to the GPL, most people with at least half a clue realize that the GPL relies on enforcement of copyright laws.
In the case of photographers, copyright isn't exactly cut and dried. While the photographer you hired to take your picture has the copyright on the picture (unless the contract says otherwise), he does not have unrestricted rights to use that picture unless he got you to sign a model release. There was a case a while back where an Australian ad agency got into hot water for using a picture licensed under the Creative Commons license, they were OK as far as the license was concerned but did not have a model release from the subject of the photograph.
Commercial speech (may have the term wrong - think advertizing) is treated differently in the US than normal speech, mainly that the First amendment doesn't offer the same protections as for normal speech.
I contend that "Intellectual Property" is emphatically not speech (or press) and that if the owner of the IP wants it to be considered as property then the IP should not get any first amendment protections.
Hmmm, wonder how well you know the crew at AC Propulsion... Recognized one name, Alec Brooks, when checking out their website, he had written a couple of whitepapers on using EV's for grid stabilization.
The PCC streetcar used the heat from the rheostat motor control and dynamic braking for heating the car's interior - this was done back in the mid-1930's. I would imagine that heat from the EV's batteries and traction inverters could be used for cabin heating - with the heat pump kicking when things get really cold.
Rags like Popular Science and Pop Mechanics had stories about electric vehicles 40 years ago. Pollution, rather than energy, was the main concern back then.
Cheryl was one of the founding staff for PC World magazine (and PC Magazine before that) and a nice looking gal at the time. Scares me to realize that it has been 25 years since PC World started and even scarier that I bought my first copy of Byte 6 years before that...
What a lot of people don't realize is that Hitler's Minister of Propaganda had taken lessons from the Woodrow Wilson administration, especially George Creel. There were some incredible lies told to bolster support for WW1 in the US which were revealed in the 1920's, which was a major reason why the US public did not want to get involved in another European war.
I've heard from a couple of different sources that the Hubble is pretty much a modified KH-11. While the resolution is pretty good, they can tell the difference between say a 90 inch diameter missile and 100 inch diameter missile, I doubt that they can tell the brand of cigarette.
Not to mention what happened to Tibet. As for Pakistan, India has a lot more manpower and industrial resources so it wouldn't have much trouble winning a convential war.
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Thanks for the tip. Reminds me of "Phenomenom" where I was the only one in the theater who noted the joke with Forrest Whittakers call-sign (WB6QLF - the 'QLF' means 'try sending with your left foot') - the other people in the theater were giving me weird looks.Jeez - I'm old enough to remmber the animated versions of the Marvel comics frrom the mid-60's, along with Iron Man, there was Thor, Captain America, Prince Naimor and of coure, The Hulk. What's even worse is remembering the theme songs for each of these shows.
Now for the kicker - I was introduced to SPICE in EECS 105 at good ole UCB (Winter '74) and the prof for the course was none other than Leon Chua. Thoroughly enjoyed the course and ended up getting my one and only A+ at Cal.
N.B. The license that Pederson used to distribute SPICE was probably what the CSRG used as a basis for distributing BSD.
Especially with his penchant for plagiarism.
If that's Homer as in Homer Simpson, the server name would be margedottir. In Iceland, the daughters are named after their mothers.
Iceland is probably cool enough that a well designed data center could forgo air-conditioning, unlike the eastern Oregon or eastern Washington sites popular for data centers.
Thirty seconds would also be enough time to bring most rapid transit systems to a halt - though I wouldn't want to be halted in the middle of a long tunnel, especially BART's transbay tunnel.
What got me was that the NRC regulations allow patients to go home if the exposure to others would be less than 100 milli-rem, whereas the maximum offsite exposure for a nuclear generating station is 5 milli-rem per year.
My understanding was that the first generation (i.e. pre-1948) weapons needed to be used within 48 hours of final assembly. I would guess that there were a few other short-lived items on board such as batteries.
My recollection was that the DMCA passed on a voice vote which is a whole different kind of animal than an unanimous vote. There's no proof that an actual majority of congress voted for the law.
Besides, a veto proof majority would have required the cooperation of a good number of Democrats in congress.
You're forgetting about what happens after an interaction of a cosmic ray with an atom. In the case of the ray being a neutron, the interaction will result in a lot of kinetic energy imparted to the nucleus (called the primary knock-on atom) which will then tear off a bunch of electrons as it slows down (a heavy charged particle with a given energy will have a well defined range in matter, which is why ion implantation superceded diffusion in chip fabrication). The range of the nucleus will likely be much larger than the thickness of the chip which would allow for use of a separate detector.
If you have an IOMMU (e.g. on a decent Sun workstation), you can set up page tables for each device so that they DMA into a virtual address space. Your driver can then define regions which the device can access transparently.This was mentioned near the end of the Wikipedia article on firewire. Something similar was brought up in an article on Trusted Solaris being certified to operate with hot-pluggable media (USB and Firewire).
Never doubted that you did, and appologies if I came across as implying a lack of understanding on your part.
However I am not so sure that you are underestimating the number of people on Slashdot that are lacking even that half of a clue.There have been a couple of recent articles on something directly related to what I'm doing at work - I'd be generous in saying that 1% of the posters really had a clue on what the issues were. As far as GPL relying on copyright, that has been mentioned on
That's a very good question - kinda expect that Vilana Financial is going to have some heavy shit thrown at it in the near future.
I wouldn't be surprised if a few of Vilana Financial's customers felt like they've been screwed over. What do you think Vilana's chances are if the sued by one of the customers after they've been found to have already forged documents?
In the case of photographers, copyright isn't exactly cut and dried. While the photographer you hired to take your picture has the copyright on the picture (unless the contract says otherwise), he does not have unrestricted rights to use that picture unless he got you to sign a model release. There was a case a while back where an Australian ad agency got into hot water for using a picture licensed under the Creative Commons license, they were OK as far as the license was concerned but did not have a model release from the subject of the photograph.
I contend that "Intellectual Property" is emphatically not speech (or press) and that if the owner of the IP wants it to be considered as property then the IP should not get any first amendment protections.
The PCC streetcar used the heat from the rheostat motor control and dynamic braking for heating the car's interior - this was done back in the mid-1930's. I would imagine that heat from the EV's batteries and traction inverters could be used for cabin heating - with the heat pump kicking when things get really cold.
Rags like Popular Science and Pop Mechanics had stories about electric vehicles 40 years ago. Pollution, rather than energy, was the main concern back then.
Cheryl was one of the founding staff for PC World magazine (and PC Magazine before that) and a nice looking gal at the time. Scares me to realize that it has been 25 years since PC World started and even scarier that I bought my first copy of Byte 6 years before that...
Wonder how their packet-vodoo would work with IPSEC? They certainly couldn't forge RST packets (that would be picked up by the Authentication Header).
A good book to read on what happened in the US during WW1 is Barrie's 'The Great Influenza'.
No insta-Godwin for you...
I've heard from a couple of different sources that the Hubble is pretty much a modified KH-11. While the resolution is pretty good, they can tell the difference between say a 90 inch diameter missile and 100 inch diameter missile, I doubt that they can tell the brand of cigarette.
Not to mention what happened to Tibet. As for Pakistan, India has a lot more manpower and industrial resources so it wouldn't have much trouble winning a convential war.