The fact that Unix was created from the ashes of Bell Labs' participation in the MULTICS project is just a historical accident.
I would beg to differ. Just because code or features from Multics didn't make it into Unix doesn't mean Multics didn't matter. Many of the choices Thompson and Ritchie made when creating Unix were clearly a reaction to Multics. Indeed, one could argue that the real genius of early Unix wasn't in the features it implemented, but in the features K&R chose not to implement. As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry put it, "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Multics taught K&R what to take away.
Calling Unix a "simplified" version of Multics ignores one of the greatest puns in computer history. The name Unix was chosen because it's a castrated version of Multics.
How can you prove you have standing if it illegal for you to know whether you have standing or not.
You can't. Hence, there's a good chance that the Supreme Court would rule for the government because litigating the case would violate the State Secrets Privilege.
So, if the satellite was so worthless that it will have no effect on weather forecasting, why did we bother supporting it? Well according to TFA, QuickSCAT does a better job of gathering data for hurricanes far out at sea, particularly in areas where bouys and hurricane hunter aircraft aren't available. "QuickSCAT data is invaluable in identifying weak systems and in defining storm structure, particularly of outer wind radii of 34 knots and 50 knots. This is particularly true outside of the Atlantic, where there are no Hurricane Hunter flights, and in the Atlantic beyond where the Hurricane Hunters can reach. Track forecasts for tropical cyclones in the Pacific and Indian Oceans may benefit from QuikSCAT data, since Hurricane Hunter information is not available. QuikSCAT also helps identify when a tropical depression or tropical storm is intensifying."
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I'm sure he could overcome the/. effect with nothing more than bubblegum, a paperclip, and a Swiss Army knife.
The iPhone is also expected to have a number of shortcomings for business users, including . . . not having buttons, which would make it difficult to dial while driving
Sounds like an advantage to me. A phone that keeps you from doing something stupid!
Before criticizing the officers, you might want to read the UCLA Police Department Taser Policy. The policy explicitly authorizes the use of Tasers' "Drive Stun" mode against passive resistors. In some circumstances, this can include passive resistors already in handcuffs. When officers are following policy, I think it's more worthwhile to criticize the policy than the officers. Criticizing the policy is the only way to change things for the future and hold those who formulated the policy in the first place to account.
"But I wonder how much energy did it consume to produce those huge amounts of Hydrogen & Oxygen? Will it be lesser than the power generated by the reaction between them?"
First law of thermodynamics says . . . NO!
And as Homer Simpson put it, "In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
What were they thinking getting rid of a director who successfully translated books to movies?
They didn't exactly "get rid" of Chris Columbus. He chose not to direct the Prisoner of Azkaban in order to spend more time with his family (he was still an executive producer though). According to the IMDB, he wanted to come back and direct the fourth film, but Warner Brothers chose Mike Newell instead.
Why don't you get back to us after you've successfully launched and sold a successful startup? Until then, I'm simply going to disregard all your assurances of how easy it is as just so much bullshit. Or, to quote the old adage, if you're so smart, how come you're not rich already?
Ever heard of Viaweb? It's the startup founded by Robert Tappan Morris and Paul Graham. It was sold to Yahoo! for (according to Wikipedia) $49,000,000. I don't know how much of that actually went Graham, but he got enough of it to form his own VC company (Y Combinator).
In a way, this article says more about O'Gara than it does about PJ. It may make public PJ's address and religion, but the fact that O'Gara would actually write something this vile says a lot about the kind of person she is.
I'd say that the most likely reason Sys-con dumped O'Hara because of liability concerns. Writing an article like that about anyone is an invitation for a lawsuit. Writing it about someone who runs a legal blog and who can probably call on a tremendous amount of pro-bono legal help is just plain stupid.
Well, I haven't seen the TV show either (though I may have to pick it up on DVD), but when I heard "browncoats" I associated them with "redcoats" rather than brownshirts.
"Because of the ethical issues associated with deception, Jagatic and Johnson had to obtain permission from the Human Subjects Committee, which approves experiments on campus that involve humans and ensures studies are ethical and do not violate participants' privacy. . . . But because the phishing study tests responses to e-mails from close friends or acquaintances -- what the study calls a person's "social network" -- it was important to keep an element of secrecy, Menczer said. So the Human Subjects Committee allowed the actual phishing attack to run without informed consent from the subjects."
The Smithsonian already has a Hubble Test Vehicle. It might be nice to have the real thing but, as you pointed out, from a cost perspective it's totally impractical. Most of the National Air and Space Museum's space hardware (except for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules) are replicas or test articles because there's no way (or no economical way) to get satellites and interplanetary probes back for exhibition.
This obviously good news for anyone buying a Samsung LCD monitor. It also implies a level of maturity in their LCD manufacturing process (no way they'd announce something like this if they weren't already producing very few panels with bad pixels).
I wonder if other monitor manufacturers will follow suit?
Not only are you limited to the southern sky, but you can't use it for months at a time (during the S. hemisphere summer). Compare that to Hubble which gets a look at the entire sky as it orbits the earth, and can operate 24/7.
Hyperthreading is quite different from dual core. To quote the wikipediaHyper-Threading works by duplicating certain sections of the processor--those that store the architectural state--but not duplicating the main execution resources. Essentially, hyperthreading shares the execution units between two virtual CPUs. You only actually get an increase in performance when those extra execution units would have been idle.
Dual core chips, on the other hand, have two completely duplicated CPUs, including two sets of execution units, two L1 and L2 caches, etc. This means that potentially, you can achieve double the performance (unlikely in practice, but possible) much more than is ever seen with hyperthreading.
AMD did a dual core demo the week before. They opened the boxes, passed around sample chips, showed enlargements of the cores, etc.
Intel did their demo with a closed box, presumably in response to AMD. Only when asked if it was really dual core did they say it contained "real silicon".
Intel showed enlargements of their dual core Itanium chip along with their demo.
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Calling Unix a "simplified" version of Multics ignores one of the greatest puns in computer history. The name Unix was chosen because it's a castrated version of Multics.
How can you prove you have standing if it illegal for you to know whether you have standing or not.
You can't. Hence, there's a good chance that the Supreme Court would rule for the government because litigating the case would violate the State Secrets Privilege.
I'm sure he could overcome the /. effect with nothing more than bubblegum, a paperclip, and a Swiss Army knife.
The iPhone is also expected to have a number of shortcomings for business users, including . . . not having buttons, which would make it difficult to dial while driving
Sounds like an advantage to me. A phone that keeps you from doing something stupid!
Before criticizing the officers, you might want to read the UCLA Police Department Taser Policy. The policy explicitly authorizes the use of Tasers' "Drive Stun" mode against passive resistors. In some circumstances, this can include passive resistors already in handcuffs. When officers are following policy, I think it's more worthwhile to criticize the policy than the officers. Criticizing the policy is the only way to change things for the future and hold those who formulated the policy in the first place to account.
"But I wonder how much energy did it consume to produce those huge amounts of Hydrogen & Oxygen? Will it be lesser than the power generated by the reaction between them?"
First law of thermodynamics says . . . NO!
And as Homer Simpson put it, "In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
. . . hire Sid.
Sounds a lot like James Bond's burglar proof car.
What were they thinking getting rid of a director who successfully translated books to movies?
They didn't exactly "get rid" of Chris Columbus. He chose not to direct the Prisoner of Azkaban in order to spend more time with his family (he was still an executive producer though). According to the IMDB, he wanted to come back and direct the fourth film, but Warner Brothers chose Mike Newell instead.
Ever heard of Viaweb? It's the startup founded by Robert Tappan Morris and Paul Graham. It was sold to Yahoo! for (according to Wikipedia) $49,000,000. I don't know how much of that actually went Graham, but he got enough of it to form his own VC company (Y Combinator).
He's got the experience to back up what he says.
In a way, this article says more about O'Gara than it does about PJ. It may make public PJ's address and religion, but the fact that O'Gara would actually write something this vile says a lot about the kind of person she is.
I'd say that the most likely reason Sys-con dumped O'Hara because of liability concerns. Writing an article like that about anyone is an invitation for a lawsuit. Writing it about someone who runs a legal blog and who can probably call on a tremendous amount of pro-bono legal help is just plain stupid.
Well, I haven't seen the TV show either (though I may have to pick it up on DVD), but when I heard "browncoats" I associated them with "redcoats" rather than brownshirts.
"Because of the ethical issues associated with deception, Jagatic and Johnson had to obtain permission from the Human Subjects Committee, which approves experiments on campus that involve humans and ensures studies are ethical and do not violate participants' privacy. . . . But because the phishing study tests responses to e-mails from close friends or acquaintances -- what the study calls a person's "social network" -- it was important to keep an element of secrecy, Menczer said. So the Human Subjects Committee allowed the actual phishing attack to run without informed consent from the subjects."
Search: Maybe I'm missing something, but name one somewhat modern OS without a built in search function.
Name one modern OS with a search function that doesn't suck.
I laugh at your pathetic degrees, minutes, and seconds! Real geeks use UTM. 12 N 413400 3698000
The Smithsonian already has a Hubble Test Vehicle. It might be nice to have the real thing but, as you pointed out, from a cost perspective it's totally impractical. Most of the National Air and Space Museum's space hardware (except for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules) are replicas or test articles because there's no way (or no economical way) to get satellites and interplanetary probes back for exhibition.
Use a Griffin PowerMate
This obviously good news for anyone buying a Samsung LCD monitor. It also implies a level of maturity in their LCD manufacturing process (no way they'd announce something like this if they weren't already producing very few panels with bad pixels). I wonder if other monitor manufacturers will follow suit?
The PoewrMate's a mac-oriented peripherial. You're expected to plug that 18" USB cable into your keyboard.
Not only are you limited to the southern sky, but you can't use it for months at a time (during the S. hemisphere summer). Compare that to Hubble which gets a look at the entire sky as it orbits the earth, and can operate 24/7.
Hyperthreading is quite different from dual core. To quote the wikipediaHyper-Threading works by duplicating certain sections of the processor--those that store the architectural state--but not duplicating the main execution resources. Essentially, hyperthreading shares the execution units between two virtual CPUs. You only actually get an increase in performance when those extra execution units would have been idle.
Dual core chips, on the other hand, have two completely duplicated CPUs, including two sets of execution units, two L1 and L2 caches, etc. This means that potentially, you can achieve double the performance (unlikely in practice, but possible) much more than is ever seen with hyperthreading.
AMD did a dual core demo the week before. They opened the boxes, passed around sample chips, showed enlargements of the cores, etc.
Intel did their demo with a closed box, presumably in response to AMD. Only when asked if it was really dual core did they say it contained "real silicon".
Intel showed enlargements of their dual core Itanium chip along with their demo.