I never heard of anyone flipping over 5081s, itwould have just read them backwards or upside down, it wasn't like the columns would punch between the other columns.
Now for a while, I worked on a Univac SS-90 which used Univac's (probably patented) 90 column cards, which were really 45 column cards but using the top 6 rows for the first 45 columns and the bottom 6 rows for the last 45 columns. You got 90 columns of text, but still only 45 columns of binary. What was neat was that the 90 column cards used round holes, not only could you use a regular hand punch if you were super careful, but we used to raid the trash cans at the computer center, running all the discard 5081s thru our card reader, and if it couldn't detect any of the rectangular holes, then it was blank to our card reader.
I had never thought of it, but there was probably some optimal combination of round 90 column punches and rectangular 80 column punches which would give you more than 960 bits. But certainly not double, and not even 80+90.
I can't see any reason, other than performance why Linux couldn't work off of Int13 , and use Bios-level calls for all disk access
Having written a few device drivers for custom OSs, maybe I am out of date and talking out my hat here... but once the control diverts to some foreign INT 13 code, no telling what it is going to do, such as enable / disable interrupts, mess around with interrupt controllers, muck about in RAM or the stack or user mode, absolutely no telling. It's not a Microsoft-type loss of control which matters here, but loss of control of the CPU state. I can see a whole pile of cans of worms with this method, no matter how much a last ditch process it would be. It could do all sorts of dumb and subtle damage to the state of the Linux kernel without anyone knowing.
Also, Linux has user mode access to worry about, I doubt Int13 knows anything about that. It would have to be invoked using a kernel buffer. This might not be such a big deal, but then again, it might be one.
Comes down to having no knowledge of the kernel internals, not knowing how to behave with the kernel. It sounds like a less than dependable solution.
... when I was there in the Navy. At least that's what they told us, along with spitting and all the signs showing "normal" hair and the message that if your hair was longer than that, go to the back of the line.
Now maybe the Navy lied to us, or Singapore lied to the Navy. But I think not.
It was 1898, not 1896. It was also repealed in 1902, then reinstated in 1914, and repealed and reinstated several more times. Not quite as old as you think, nor the tax you think.
Google is my friend. Google should be your friend too.
Taxes never die.
This one did, several times. The first resurrection took 12 years.
I have been a member since August 2002. In that time, I have received three empty envelopes -- no sleeve or DVD. In each case, it was easy enough to figure out what movie it should have been. The last two were received unsealed at my local (podunk sized) post office. The postmaster says Netflix is well known among postmasters for sending out unsealed enveloped, the sleeves and DVDs fall out in bins, are collected, and periodically sent back to Netflix.
I don't believe the post office is stealing these. It would be so much simpler to steal the entire enveope rather than just the DVD and sleeve.
What really annoys me about this is that the shipping problems form has no choice for receiving an empty sleeve. If you report it missing and never arrived, they tell you to wait a few days and report it again. If you report it as scratced and unplayable, so they will send out a replacement immediately, they expect you to send the scratched DVD back.
... when he wrote how horrifying it is to use a 135 year old design...
your keyboard design is over 100 years old... Can you imagine using a hard drive that was designed a decade ago? Or a processor from two centuries past?
Well, pardon me, but the circular form of a disk drive is a lot older than that! Electricity has been around longer. One could argue that telegraphs pioneered on/off electronic signals.
I am really tired of seeing these idiotic leadins. If the writer can't come up with something better than subtracting years to show how obsolete something is, then maybe it isn't quite so obsolete after all.
Hey, did ya ever think how old the alphabet is? Why are we stuck using such old fashioned characters when we have the graphical ability to invent our own? Why not rationalize spelling in English? Why not invent a new language? Geez, think of just about every programming language out there, they use keywords like for, while, exit. Old as dirt words in the computer age? What is wrong here?
The vibration of a cell phone is not wasted. It is intentional. To pick up energy from the vibration would be to damp it, then you'd have to vibrate more to get the same alerting effect.
Even if you could get power from the vibration, it would mean that the vibration (which is intentionally selected) is unwanted, or that you would have to crank up the power going into the vibration to compensate.
This supposed energy collector is meant to pick up wasted, unwanted vibrations from engines, ventilation ducts, etc. Not from intentional vibrations.
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Both my and mseeger's mea culpas, we both read Me-262, the jet fighter, whereas reverseengineer said Me-162, which I believe was the rocket boosted glider, which was expected to glide thru a bomber formation on its way back down, firing a few rockets, and the pilots was supposed to bail out before the Me-162 crashed. Yes, that was a goofy waste of resources.
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Its engines had an average life of 10 hours, that's 2-3 missions. They were hard to manufacture at all, let alone in quality and quantity.
It had short range, the jet engines of the day were very inefficient and gobbled fuel like crazy. This would have made their fuel supply problems worse.
All jet engines have slow acceleration, the early ones even more so. An Me-262 in landing pattern was a sitting duck. More sitting ducks = more losses, and at low altitude, fewer survivors.
The allies had jet planes, but since they didn't need them, they didn't push production. If the Me-262 had come out in number in 1943, the allied jet fighters would have been out in even larger number in 1944. The P-80 was a better plane than the Me-262. I think the British one was too. Of course, like all jets, it was short range and couldn't have escorted bombers to Berlin.
Or are you thinking at all? What the heck do you think censorship is except filtering? Jazus keerist, when the public institution makes the decision on what can be seen and what can't, that is censorship.
What looney bin do you pull your definitions from?
Bet they never thought of that, they probably had some boring idea of testing what they could, one step at a time. Say, why don't we extend your brilliant observation, it would be much better to test everything at once, no reason to add just weightlessness to the test, why not let's test the whole kit and kaboodle all at once, radiation, electronics, rocket engines, guidance, political stability at home.... say, sounds just like the real thing, why don't we just run the whole damned mission without any partial testing, partial testing is for wimps and stupid people.
Yes, there needs to be a way to send anonymous email.
I suppose it all comes back to the cost issue, that as long as sending spam is so cheap that even a.001% return makes it a good investment, it will survive.
That's all, just no fraud. I don't even care about lying Subject: headers, that's too subjective (ha ha). But I want honest headers sufficient to track them down, and a removal process that works. Opt-in would be nice, but I would be satisfied with honest headers.
Oh, and let anybody sue the bastards for fraud, whether ISP, recipient, AG, or anybody else.
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I never heard of anyone flipping over 5081s, itwould have just read them backwards or upside down, it wasn't like the columns would punch between the other columns.
Now for a while, I worked on a Univac SS-90 which used Univac's (probably patented) 90 column cards, which were really 45 column cards but using the top 6 rows for the first 45 columns and the bottom 6 rows for the last 45 columns. You got 90 columns of text, but still only 45 columns of binary. What was neat was that the 90 column cards used round holes, not only could you use a regular hand punch if you were super careful, but we used to raid the trash cans at the computer center, running all the discard 5081s thru our card reader, and if it couldn't detect any of the rectangular holes, then it was blank to our card reader.
I had never thought of it, but there was probably some optimal combination of round 90 column punches and rectangular 80 column punches which would give you more than 960 bits. But certainly not double, and not even 80+90.
Just get him to unwittingly change the subject ...
I can't see any reason, other than performance why Linux couldn't work off of Int13 , and use Bios-level calls for all disk access
... but once the control diverts to some foreign INT 13 code, no telling what it is going to do, such as enable / disable interrupts, mess around with interrupt controllers, muck about in RAM or the stack or user mode, absolutely no telling. It's not a Microsoft-type loss of control which matters here, but loss of control of the CPU state. I can see a whole pile of cans of worms with this method, no matter how much a last ditch process it would be. It could do all sorts of dumb and subtle damage to the state of the Linux kernel without anyone knowing.
Having written a few device drivers for custom OSs, maybe I am out of date and talking out my hat here
Also, Linux has user mode access to worry about, I doubt Int13 knows anything about that. It would have to be invoked using a kernel buffer. This might not be such a big deal, but then again, it might be one.
Comes down to having no knowledge of the kernel internals, not knowing how to behave with the kernel. It sounds like a less than dependable solution.
... when I was there in the Navy. At least that's what they told us, along with spitting and all the signs showing "normal" hair and the message that if your hair was longer than that, go to the back of the line.
Now maybe the Navy lied to us, or Singapore lied to the Navy. But I think not.
Accessing another computer's memmory over the internet?
... looks like a cross between memory and mammory ... I guess my mind has gone to rot already.
A slow day here for sure
Would it be sarcasm or ironic if slashdot were to review it? it would be farce if they were to review it twice.
Chewing gum was banned along with spitting and long hair for the same reason, that the people in charge are control freaks.
Wherever you got that subway idea, it's nonsense.
It was 1898, not 1896. It was also repealed in 1902, then reinstated in 1914, and repealed and reinstated several more times. Not quite as old as you think, nor the tax you think.
Google is my friend. Google should be your friend too.
Taxes never die.
This one did, several times. The first resurrection took 12 years.
Curiously appropriate, if you mean the current CEO of the USA ...
A fool and his money are soon venture capital.
But wait! That's my taxes turning into venture capital?
I have been a member since August 2002. In that time, I have received three empty envelopes -- no sleeve or DVD. In each case, it was easy enough to figure out what movie it should have been. The last two were received unsealed at my local (podunk sized) post office. The postmaster says Netflix is well known among postmasters for sending out unsealed enveloped, the sleeves and DVDs fall out in bins, are collected, and periodically sent back to Netflix.
I don't believe the post office is stealing these. It would be so much simpler to steal the entire enveope rather than just the DVD and sleeve.
What really annoys me about this is that the shipping problems form has no choice for receiving an empty sleeve. If you report it missing and never arrived, they tell you to wait a few days and report it again. If you report it as scratced and unplayable, so they will send out a replacement immediately, they expect you to send the scratched DVD back.
It was designed to interface with a human.
... when he wrote how horrifying it is to use a 135 year old design ...
... Can you imagine using a hard drive that was designed a decade ago? Or a processor from two centuries past?
your keyboard design is over 100 years old
Well, pardon me, but the circular form of a disk drive is a lot older than that! Electricity has been around longer. One could argue that telegraphs pioneered on/off electronic signals.
I am really tired of seeing these idiotic leadins. If the writer can't come up with something better than subtracting years to show how obsolete something is, then maybe it isn't quite so obsolete after all.
Hey, did ya ever think how old the alphabet is? Why are we stuck using such old fashioned characters when we have the graphical ability to invent our own? Why not rationalize spelling in English? Why not invent a new language? Geez, think of just about every programming language out there, they use keywords like for, while, exit. Old as dirt words in the computer age? What is wrong here?
Criminy.
... Gaming takes on a whole different meaning, where Windows Gaming is not what anybody wants...
The vibration of a cell phone is not wasted. It is intentional. To pick up energy from the vibration would be to damp it, then you'd have to vibrate more to get the same alerting effect.
Even if you could get power from the vibration, it would mean that the vibration (which is intentionally selected) is unwanted, or that you would have to crank up the power going into the vibration to compensate.
This supposed energy collector is meant to pick up wasted, unwanted vibrations from engines, ventilation ducts, etc. Not from intentional vibrations.
Both my and mseeger's mea culpas, we both read Me-262, the jet fighter, whereas reverseengineer said Me-162, which I believe was the rocket boosted glider, which was expected to glide thru a bomber formation on its way back down, firing a few rockets, and the pilots was supposed to bail out before the Me-162 crashed. Yes, that was a goofy waste of resources.
Its engines had an average life of 10 hours, that's 2-3 missions. They were hard to manufacture at all, let alone in quality and quantity.
It had short range, the jet engines of the day were very inefficient and gobbled fuel like crazy. This would have made their fuel supply problems worse.
All jet engines have slow acceleration, the early ones even more so. An Me-262 in landing pattern was a sitting duck. More sitting ducks = more losses, and at low altitude, fewer survivors.
The allies had jet planes, but since they didn't need them, they didn't push production. If the Me-262 had come out in number in 1943, the allied jet fighters would have been out in even larger number in 1944. The P-80 was a better plane than the Me-262. I think the British one was too. Of course, like all jets, it was short range and couldn't have escorted bombers to Berlin.
... are simply a twisted genius :-)
You can't both moderate and comment on an article.
You can't lie under oath.
You can be sued for libel and slander.
Lying in a contract is a no-no.
Making false claims in ads is frowned upon.
Yelling FIRE in a theater is not in the cards.
The Secret Service will come after you if you make threats against givernment officials.
What part about make no law don't you understand?
Or are you thinking at all? What the heck do you think censorship is except filtering? Jazus keerist, when the public institution makes the decision on what can be seen and what can't, that is censorship.
What looney bin do you pull your definitions from?
They said, in a fine example of shades of gray, that rather than make M$ a loser, Linux will make them less of a winner.
The fact that a slashdot poster can make such a bold (and stupid) statement is not surprising at all.
Bet they never thought of that, they probably had some boring idea of testing what they could, one step at a time. Say, why don't we extend your brilliant observation, it would be much better to test everything at once, no reason to add just weightlessness to the test, why not let's test the whole kit and kaboodle all at once, radiation, electronics, rocket engines, guidance, political stability at home .... say, sounds just like the real thing, why don't we just run the whole damned mission without any partial testing, partial testing is for wimps and stupid people.
Yes, there needs to be a way to send anonymous email.
.001% return makes it a good investment, it will survive.
I suppose it all comes back to the cost issue, that as long as sending spam is so cheap that even a
Thanks for keeping my head on straight.
That's all, just no fraud. I don't even care about lying Subject: headers, that's too subjective (ha ha). But I want honest headers sufficient to track them down, and a removal process that works. Opt-in would be nice, but I would be satisfied with honest headers.
Oh, and let anybody sue the bastards for fraud, whether ISP, recipient, AG, or anybody else.
Why is honesty in headers too much to ask for?
You don't say.