It might actually be possible. Each tooth has a nerve. The sodium channels in those nerves are sensitive to a few millivolts. They include mechanisms which effectively amplify signals and convert them to bistable, digital streams. It wouldn't surprise me if a tooth could act as a self powered radio receiver, in conjunction with the rest of the body.
Facebook added to memcache the ability to use UDP instead of TCP. They also changed MySQL so one replication-command from one datacenter to the next would also invalidate what is in memcache on that location.
At some point they have so much traffic from their webservers to their backendsystems, they saturated their internal network and were dropping UDP.
Now thats just dumb. We send trace information by UDP but we accept that some of it will get lost under high load. It is a way of shedding load in fact. If you send business data over UDP you can't act surprised when it winds up in the bit bucket.
Yeah, its for the millionaire who wants to emulate John Glenn. I am thinking $10 million per flight. Half the cost of a week on the ISS and you get to go solo.
Just imagine if that $100,000,000,000 had been spent on developing a low-cost spaceflight capability instead.
This is my thought about the SpaceX Falcon 1: I wonder if you could build a single occupant capsule, similar to Mercury within the 670 kg limit which that vehicle can lift into low earth orbit?
I have the impression that the standing army which supports the Shuttle has to be kept employed because they represent a large bloc of active voters. So the money is spent to keep those people happy with the government of the day. This is why so many Shuttle derived launchers are being proposed.
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo (and their counterparts in the USSR) made sense because of the cold war. Now that the cold war is gone the old justifications don't apply. The best thing NASA could do would be to buy commercial launches from private operators who prove that they can deliver reliably. That way launch vehicles will be available for public and private exploration.
Some very rare metals may only be available from deep in the crust of astronomical bodies. On Earth that means digging down thousands of kilometres. On Phobos and Deimos that means going down a few kilometres at the most. And we might only need small quantities of these things any. Increasingly the applications are going to be in space. It will be a long time before we bring down more matter than we have sent up.
Yeah thanks I found that. I now have WindowsXP SP2 installed on the macbook with Revit and Autocad installed on it, which was the point of the exercise. My wife wants to run her CAD applications on her new laptop.
I can't put the windows part of bootcamp onto windows because it requires SP2. I just tried another direct install of SP2 but it fails and says I have less than 4 mb free.
Thanks that very helpful. I found a howto which links to an install of SP2 and I tried that file directly. But it does the same thing as my brothers file. It fails with a message saying the system has less than 4 mb free. I will try the full slipstreaming thing. Thanks.
I work for a large company and mediawiki horrified senior management. They want information to be controlled. Everything on on the internal network is there because they want it there. I was in middle management when I put it in. It pleased a lot of my peers but pissed off management to no end.
Back before everybody at work had internet access we had newsgroups. Then I installed mediawiki, mainly for work, but you could use it for anything. Then somebody took a dislike to newsgroups and replaced it with phpbb (which I dislike) then about the same time external internet access was switched on and I pretty much stopped talking online with my co-workers.
But if you want to have a work community start an online community on an external system. Let people from work log on but don't associate it with the work place. Personally there are a few people I work with who I would choose to socialise with, but the rest I would rather have as little to do with as possible.
I want to install windows XP on my wife's macbook pro. A ran bootcamp and windows installed okay but my XP install disk is pre service pack 2. The apple drivers for windows on the macbook require SP2. Windows can't use the ethernet or wifi to upgrade itself. Microsoft don't give you a simple executable to download to upgrade to later service packs unless you have a special account with them.
My brother gave me an executable which supposedly will install SP2 but it failed for a bizarre reason (claims only 3 megabytes free, I have about 80 Gig).
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Why does this commercial product work at all without payment?
It might actually be possible. Each tooth has a nerve. The sodium channels in those nerves are sensitive to a few millivolts. They include mechanisms which effectively amplify signals and convert them to bistable, digital streams. It wouldn't surprise me if a tooth could act as a self powered radio receiver, in conjunction with the rest of the body.
They use these dental implants to send auditory signals to the populace while people are asleep.
If you're wondering, they charge up the batteries with the fluoride they put in the water.
Those bastards. Messing with my precious bodily fluids and whispering commie propaganda to me in my sleep.
Well, a tracking device anyway. Its how they locate you to pull you back to the future.
Great film. And just think, the Sixth Sense wouldn't have happened without it.
My mouth hurts just thinking about it. What if I am listing to a TV program about dentistry? Am I supposed to enjoy the sound of the drill?
Wheeeeeeeeeee Grind Grind....
Could this process be used to build, say, CPUs?
Lots of people don't have off-street parking, let alone a garage, so you could never charge the damn thing.
I have seen designs for charging points integrated with parking meters.
very often the algorithm used is a better predictor of speed than the language used.
Particularly when you move from development to operating on real data at real world load.
Facebook added to memcache the ability to use UDP instead of TCP. They also changed MySQL so one replication-command from one datacenter to the next would also invalidate what is in memcache on that location.
At some point they have so much traffic from their webservers to their backendsystems, they saturated their internal network and were dropping UDP.
Now thats just dumb. We send trace information by UDP but we accept that some of it will get lost under high load. It is a way of shedding load in fact. If you send business data over UDP you can't act surprised when it winds up in the bit bucket.
That's very likely true, as the stupidity of the user remains the weakest factor in security.
And this is a constant in the UK Government?
The glasses I got for Avatar don't seem to be linearly polarised.
Yeah, its for the millionaire who wants to emulate John Glenn. I am thinking $10 million per flight. Half the cost of a week on the ISS and you get to go solo.
Just imagine if that $100,000,000,000 had been spent on developing a low-cost spaceflight capability instead.
This is my thought about the SpaceX Falcon 1: I wonder if you could build a single occupant capsule, similar to Mercury within the 670 kg limit which that vehicle can lift into low earth orbit?
I have the impression that the standing army which supports the Shuttle has to be kept employed because they represent a large bloc of active voters. So the money is spent to keep those people happy with the government of the day. This is why so many Shuttle derived launchers are being proposed.
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo (and their counterparts in the USSR) made sense because of the cold war. Now that the cold war is gone the old justifications don't apply. The best thing NASA could do would be to buy commercial launches from private operators who prove that they can deliver reliably. That way launch vehicles will be available for public and private exploration.
Some very rare metals may only be available from deep in the crust of astronomical bodies. On Earth that means digging down thousands of kilometres. On Phobos and Deimos that means going down a few kilometres at the most. And we might only need small quantities of these things any. Increasingly the applications are going to be in space. It will be a long time before we bring down more matter than we have sent up.
Yeah thanks I found that. I now have WindowsXP SP2 installed on the macbook with Revit and Autocad installed on it, which was the point of the exercise. My wife wants to run her CAD applications on her new laptop.
Thanks to everybody who helped.
> We need to know what level of precision we're working with.
With bc and dc, infinite.
Thats some computer you have there.
Slide rule thanks. I have two. A good one which my dad saved from days past; and a cheap one from (believe it or not) a gift shop, about 10cm long.
I can't put the windows part of bootcamp onto windows because it requires SP2. I just tried another direct install of SP2 but it fails and says I have less than 4 mb free.
Okay looking for the registry trick. This seems to have done the trick. Thanks.
Thanks that very helpful. I found a howto which links to an install of SP2 and I tried that file directly. But it does the same thing as my brothers file. It fails with a message saying the system has less than 4 mb free. I will try the full slipstreaming thing. Thanks.
I work for a large company and mediawiki horrified senior management. They want information to be controlled. Everything on on the internal network is there because they want it there. I was in middle management when I put it in. It pleased a lot of my peers but pissed off management to no end.
Back before everybody at work had internet access we had newsgroups. Then I installed mediawiki, mainly for work, but you could use it for anything. Then somebody took a dislike to newsgroups and replaced it with phpbb (which I dislike) then about the same time external internet access was switched on and I pretty much stopped talking online with my co-workers.
But if you want to have a work community start an online community on an external system. Let people from work log on but don't associate it with the work place. Personally there are a few people I work with who I would choose to socialise with, but the rest I would rather have as little to do with as possible.
I want to install windows XP on my wife's macbook pro. A ran bootcamp and windows installed okay but my XP install disk is pre service pack 2. The apple drivers for windows on the macbook require SP2. Windows can't use the ethernet or wifi to upgrade itself. Microsoft don't give you a simple executable to download to upgrade to later service packs unless you have a special account with them.
My brother gave me an executable which supposedly will install SP2 but it failed for a bizarre reason (claims only 3 megabytes free, I have about 80 Gig).
So I am stuck. Any suggestions? Thanks.