I used to work for the road authority here in Victoria, Australia. We had a lot of little huts out near highways and freeways. One day one of our engineers took a look inside a site which hadn't been used in the time he had worked for us. He groped his way through cobwebs to the rack at the end of the little building. In the rack was a PDP-8. Every site of ours had a log book with carbon copies so he took a look to see who had last been there. The last entry was ten years earlier and said something like:
Investigating fault in system X need to replace part Y will return tomorrow.
The engineer who made that note was our current manager. We asked him about it but he couldn't remember the details. We got a nice box for our computer museum though.
The operational systems ran PDP-11 83s and 84s. Many an early morning (say 3 am) was spent reinstalling RSX11M on one of those systems after a disk failure. The PDP-11 was the most reliable computer I ever worked on to that date. Fantastic hardware. Though the horizontal backplane did tend to accumulate conductive crap against the cards.
Police labs are incredibly sloppy. You have to either have negative controls or some sort of validation or acceptance testing on your chemicals and supplies. They have all of these chain-of-custody rituals, but then they use supplies from Wal-Mart.
In the Jayden Leskie case the lab which searched for DNA on the victims body detected the DNA of an unrelated rape victim. Samples from the owner of the DNA had been processed by the same lab earlier in the same day.
The Germans, like many other NATO members, apparently don't take their alliance commitments seriously. As an American I find it extremely disappointing that we've staked our blood and treasure on defending the freedom of our NATO Allies for generations and many of them can't even be bothered to send troops without caveats to Afghanistan. You do recall where Article 5 was invoked right?
Apparently the NATO alliance is a one way street. Thanks Europe.
Afghanistan isn't a member of NATO, and the USA is not being directly attacked by Afghanistan, If anything it was Saudi Arabia which launched the attack.
And in any event there is no immediate threat to the US.
(and since Germany was the aggressor in the second world war they can hardly be said to owe the US for their intervention in that instance.)
Your two by four would be 90 by 45. Studs are generally done with 90*45 MGP-5 pine. Framing material comes in 90*25, 90*35 and 90*45. You would use 90*35 for a noggin. Big house building companies who shave margins make way too much use of 90*25 and 70*35 where they can get away with it.
Wakes up in middle of night. Bloody cats on the bed again
Puts cat out through front door
One minute passes
Cat comes back
The animal had gone to the back of the house, climbed to the upper story and come into the house through a little window high in the shower cubicle of the upstairs bathroom. Then it walked back down the stairs and into our room.
Of course it has a map. What it doesn't know is that I am going to strangle it if it keeps pulling tricks like that.
Chiao and co ask how big is this effect of a gravitational wave on a thin superconducting sheet compared to the effect on an ordinary conducting sheet. The answer? 42 orders of magnitude bigger.
So if the affect of a conducting sheet is next to nothing then the affect of a superconducting sheet is 10^42 times as much but this may still be next to nothing. The article doesn't say that there will be no gravity inside the sphere.
The ones who care already do. In some cases, it is easier to use the empirical system, for example, I can't imagine having to do construction with millimeters, but 1/8 and 1/16 inch are the perfect tolerances of precision when framing a house. The millimeters are just too hard to see because they're so close together. Try it sometime. I guess in Europe they must use them, so it must be doable (or maybe that's why they use bricks so much in construction instead of wood!)
I live in Australia and I do all my house framing in millimetres. I have never had trouble seeing a millimetre.
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I could subscribe to /. and search all your comments. Unless you have been very careful I should be able to learn a lot about you.
how 'bout not using twitter, myspace, facebook, etc??
What do you think /. is?
OpenVMS had support for meta data in the file system with fields data types and record structures. I am impressed that the Amiga had it though.
I used to work for the road authority here in Victoria, Australia. We had a lot of little huts out near highways and freeways. One day one of our engineers took a look inside a site which hadn't been used in the time he had worked for us. He groped his way through cobwebs to the rack at the end of the little building. In the rack was a PDP-8. Every site of ours had a log book with carbon copies so he took a look to see who had last been there. The last entry was ten years earlier and said something like:
Investigating fault in system X need to replace part Y will return tomorrow.
The engineer who made that note was our current manager. We asked him about it but he couldn't remember the details. We got a nice box for our computer museum though.
The operational systems ran PDP-11 83s and 84s. Many an early morning (say 3 am) was spent reinstalling RSX11M on one of those systems after a disk failure. The PDP-11 was the most reliable computer I ever worked on to that date. Fantastic hardware. Though the horizontal backplane did tend to accumulate conductive crap against the cards.
Police labs are incredibly sloppy. You have to either have negative controls or some sort of validation or acceptance testing on your chemicals and supplies. They have all of these chain-of-custody rituals, but then they use supplies from Wal-Mart.
In the Jayden Leskie case the lab which searched for DNA on the victims body detected the DNA of an unrelated rape victim. Samples from the owner of the DNA had been processed by the same lab earlier in the same day.
Mega criminal mind
The handler of swabs really is a serial killer.
most observatories are on top of mountains.
Not an easy thing to find in the Netherlands.
It must be a reflection of the sun.
The Germans, like many other NATO members, apparently don't take their alliance commitments seriously. As an American I find it extremely disappointing that we've staked our blood and treasure on defending the freedom of our NATO Allies for generations and many of them can't even be bothered to send troops without caveats to Afghanistan. You do recall where Article 5 was invoked right?
Apparently the NATO alliance is a one way street. Thanks Europe.
Afghanistan isn't a member of NATO, and the USA is not being directly attacked by Afghanistan, If anything it was Saudi Arabia which launched the attack.
And in any event there is no immediate threat to the US.
(and since Germany was the aggressor in the second world war they can hardly be said to owe the US for their intervention in that instance.)
Its like the two USB hard disks I use for backups. Pick up the container and swap it with the container from secure storage,
Well I hope it is bolted down.
Oh goody. A million bizarre race conditions.
Ah I didn't know there were any proprietary versions from when RMS worked on it.
Yeah but then they will get left in a car outside a strip club or something.
...boots very fast from a CDROM. It would be much faster from a hard disk or SSD.
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Your two by four would be 90 by 45. Studs are generally done with 90*45 MGP-5 pine. Framing material comes in 90*25, 90*35 and 90*45. You would use 90*35 for a noggin. Big house building companies who shave margins make way too much use of 90*25 and 70*35 where they can get away with it.
The animal had gone to the back of the house, climbed to the upper story and come into the house through a little window high in the shower cubicle of the upstairs bathroom. Then it walked back down the stairs and into our room.
Of course it has a map. What it doesn't know is that I am going to strangle it if it keeps pulling tricks like that.
Thanks.
Chiao and co ask how big is this effect of a gravitational wave on a thin superconducting sheet compared to the effect on an ordinary conducting sheet. The answer? 42 orders of magnitude bigger.
So if the affect of a conducting sheet is next to nothing then the affect of a superconducting sheet is 10^42 times as much but this may still be next to nothing. The article doesn't say that there will be no gravity inside the sphere.
Just like the concentric rotating benzels in Carl Sagans book Contact. Maybe he had a gravitational wave resonance thing happening there.
The challenge would be getting your Library of Congress down as a single load.
The ones who care already do. In some cases, it is easier to use the empirical system, for example, I can't imagine having to do construction with millimeters, but 1/8 and 1/16 inch are the perfect tolerances of precision when framing a house. The millimeters are just too hard to see because they're so close together. Try it sometime. I guess in Europe they must use them, so it must be doable (or maybe that's why they use bricks so much in construction instead of wood!)
I live in Australia and I do all my house framing in millimetres. I have never had trouble seeing a millimetre.
Must better than "admin," "root" and "password"
I believe that in minix the bootstrap starts the kernel and various modules, including the file system.
Ha Ha. Igor in the comments thinks Tasmanian devils are cute!