Does the fact that it is binary confer digital status automatically?
In this case, yes.
I assume you are talking about Morse code, which consists of "current off" and "current on" states grouped into dits ("dot"), dahs ("dashes," 3 times the length of a dit), inter-dit/dah spacing (period of no current, same length as a dit), inter-"letter" spacing (3 times the length of a dit), and inter-word spacing (7 times the length of a dit).
There are no good reason to implement Telex/telegraph on fiber
Just encapsulate it in another protocol that does do well over fiber and call it a day.
As for "good reasons" to even have such protocols, the hobbyist, novelty, and for the time being in certain countries, legal markets are the only ones I can think of. As a text-message-delivery protocol to use when fiber is available, there are so many better ones to choose from.
which in current terms (C=current, N=no current) is CNCNCNNNCCCNCCCNCCCNNNCNCNCNNNNNNNCNCNCNNNCCCNCCCNCCCNNNCNCNC
dot = 1 unit of time dash = 3 units of time inter-dot/dash silence = 1 unit of time inter-letter silence = 3 units of time inter-word silence = 7 units of time
In a perfect world where caller-ID can't be spoofed, a fax from a "registered" fax machine that is known to be run by people trusted by the state to not forge signatures makes sense.
Otherwise, it's open for abuse.
I don't know if it's still the case, but when faxes first became "legal" ways to send signed documents in the USA, they typically had to be followed up by hardcopy signature within a specified period of time, a week I think.
At least with hardcopy, if you suspect a forged signature you can usually test the paper for fingerprints.
I think that HP would do a lot better by servicing those businesses.
Short of becoming a reseller of Microsoft post-end-of-life support contracts, I don't think HP can service these businesses in the way they need to be serviced.
"The way they need to be serviced" means continued security-patch support for XP.
Time left until 00:00:00 January 14, 2020, Redmond Standard Time: 2407 days, 13 hours, 14 minutes, 19 seconds, no 18, no 17, no arrrg, it won't stop going down.
... I don't know of any that aren't broken as designed.
A well-designed motherboard will be able to be reset to factory conditions by anyone with physical access, assuming there hasn't been physical damage.
A key component of such a motherboard is the ability for someone with physical access to reset the BIOS and volatile RAM to factory-default conditions. In other words, it should be impossible to "brick" the system using software alone.
I don't know of any well-designed motherboards that support Windows 7.
In other words, as far as I know, all modern PC motherboards ship broken.
I don't know what "ISTR" means but Windows 7 does need more than 4GB to install. If the CF to IDE adapter is truly transparent to the hardware Windows 7 should install on it assuming space is available.
I don't know if the Windows 7 installer will even boot on a Pentium III (I'm sure it won't boot on an 80286, the newest stock Linux kernels won't even compile for use on an 80386).
Assuming it does boot on a Pentium III, the installer may check for hardware that will give an unacceptably low (in Microsoft's estimate) customer experience and refuse to install. That's a fact of life with many consumer-oriented commercial operating systems.
In general, operating systems that have hobbyists or special-purpose (embedded, itty-bitty-server, etc.) customers as a significant portion of their desired user base should publish "as is, unsupported" work-arounds to allow hobbyists and specialty-aftermarket-VARs to install the base OS plus as many bits as pieces as they want that will fit on powerful-enough-to-boot-the-kernel-but-too-wimpy-to-warrant-supporting hardware, provided that the customer realizes that "he's on his own" for support.
Microsoft will sell support contracts for XP and older OSes to those willing and able to ante up.
However, your point is well taken for cash-strapped large enterprises (think governments, charities, companies with cash-flow problems, etc.) and for smaller companies who contract with other entities and who may have contractual obligations to upgrade away from XP by a certain date.
I'm assuming you are talking about "PCs" as we normally thing of them, not special-purpose boxes, embedded systems, etc.
The answer is yes, if either
1) I had to, because my applications wouldn't run on the newer versions (think PPC-only binaries that I don't have the source for - okay, that's mid-2000s-era, but still).
or
2) it got the job done without any negative downsides and the cost to upgrade (license fees, new hardware, training, etc.) was too high. Think isolated (no Internet) systems OR the mythical (?) 2001 version of Linux or MacOS that was still vendor-supported and which had a supported security package available.
Heck, if Windows 2000 was still supported and it ran the software I needed to run (modern security software, modern web browsers with modern plug-ins, etc.) I would recommend it over XP to anyone with a sub-512MB computer.
Ditto Windows NT for computers in the 16-128MB range, provided I plugged all the security holes (disable LMHash, etc.) and my users were okay with a user interface that is as alien as Windows 8 is from Windows 2000/xp/7.
still get the job done without being an unacceptable security risk to their employees, their data, or the rest of their network there is no compelling reason to buy a new computer.
We know that people under 21 aren't legally responsible enough to be trusted to buy alcohol, so why should rapists under 16-17 be held to the same standards as adults?*
Now, 1-2 years may be a bit low for your typical 15 year old tried-as-a-juvenile rapist but under certain circumstances or in states which give more than lip service to the idea that juveniles should be rehabilitated rather than punished, 1-2 years may be appropriate.
*If I'm wrong, if 20 year olds as a group really are mature enough to buy booze and use it as responsibly as those a year older, then we need to lower the drinking age, but that's a discussion for another time.
It's the release manager's call to decide what to take. He could've said "no" but didn't. Heck, he could've yelled at the developers and said "HELL @#$^ING NO" in public, but he didn't.
It's also his job to take the heat for unpopular decisions and defend them if necessary.
Is a single photon considered an "uber-short beyond all uber-shortness" laser pulse?
If not, what about to arbitrary successive photons in a laser beam - if all of the photons before and after them were diverted, would these two photons together constitute an extremely short laser pulse?
If the answer to either is yes, how many "laser beam photons" in a row do you need (assuming a single-photon-wide beam) before whether the beam is a "laser" or not has any practical significance? Or is a single-photon-wide laser beam in and of itself either so impractical to make or so "not different" from a non-laser single-photon-wide beam that the question is purely academic?
Not being a physicist, I don't know the answer. But I'm curious to find out.
Yeah, it will raise costs but you don't need beer to live.
Now, if the chemicals start affecting tap water or the wells people drink out of, well, mister, them's fightin' words!*
*"Oh, what, cheap energy for all in exchange for drinking poison? I'm flexible." - the unspoken words many in the public are actually thinking but don't dare say.
Slashdot Mirror
Aussie telegraph machines used a 5 character Baudot coding
Someone once told me that in Australia all of their 0's and 1's were upside-down.
I checked and you know what, they were right!
Does the fact that it is binary confer digital status automatically?
In this case, yes.
I assume you are talking about Morse code, which consists of "current off" and "current on" states grouped into dits ("dot"), dahs ("dashes," 3 times the length of a dit), inter-dit/dah spacing (period of no current, same length as a dit), inter-"letter" spacing (3 times the length of a dit), and inter-word spacing (7 times the length of a dit).
Telegram posts you???
There are no good reason to implement Telex/telegraph on fiber
Just encapsulate it in another protocol that does do well over fiber and call it a day.
As for "good reasons" to even have such protocols, the hobbyist, novelty, and for the time being in certain countries, legal markets are the only ones I can think of. As a text-message-delivery protocol to use when fiber is available, there are so many better ones to choose from.
It's still binary: current, no current.
SOS SOS
would be ...---... ...---...
which in current terms (C=current, N=no current) is
CNCNCNNNCCCNCCCNCCCNNNCNCNCNNNNNNNCNCNCNNNCCCNCCCNCCCNNNCNCNC
dot = 1 unit of time
dash = 3 units of time
inter-dot/dash silence = 1 unit of time
inter-letter silence = 3 units of time
inter-word silence = 7 units of time
You are doing it wrong...
I can hear it now...
Viagra cheap from the canadian border,
dit dah dah dah dit dah dah dah
Long erection for a dollar
dit dah dah dah dit dah dah dah
There, fixed that for you.
In a perfect world where caller-ID can't be spoofed, a fax from a "registered" fax machine that is known to be run by people trusted by the state to not forge signatures makes sense.
Otherwise, it's open for abuse.
I don't know if it's still the case, but when faxes first became "legal" ways to send signed documents in the USA, they typically had to be followed up by hardcopy signature within a specified period of time, a week I think.
At least with hardcopy, if you suspect a forged signature you can usually test the paper for fingerprints.
I think that HP would do a lot better by servicing those businesses.
Short of becoming a reseller of Microsoft post-end-of-life support contracts, I don't think HP can service these businesses in the way they need to be serviced.
"The way they need to be serviced" means continued security-patch support for XP.
Windows 7 is barely 3 years old its not like its going anywhere anytime soon.
False, if "soon" is more than about 2408 days.
Windows 7 death watch
Time left until 00:00:00 January 14, 2020, Redmond Standard Time: 2407 days, 13 hours, 14 minutes, 19 seconds, no 18, no 17, no arrrg, it won't stop going down.
... I don't know of any that aren't broken as designed.
A well-designed motherboard will be able to be reset to factory conditions by anyone with physical access, assuming there hasn't been physical damage.
A key component of such a motherboard is the ability for someone with physical access to reset the BIOS and volatile RAM to factory-default conditions. In other words, it should be impossible to "brick" the system using software alone.
I don't know of any well-designed motherboards that support Windows 7.
In other words, as far as I know, all modern PC motherboards ship broken.
I don't know what "ISTR" means but Windows 7 does need more than 4GB to install. If the CF to IDE adapter is truly transparent to the hardware Windows 7 should install on it assuming space is available.
I don't know if the Windows 7 installer will even boot on a Pentium III (I'm sure it won't boot on an 80286, the newest stock Linux kernels won't even compile for use on an 80386).
Assuming it does boot on a Pentium III, the installer may check for hardware that will give an unacceptably low (in Microsoft's estimate) customer experience and refuse to install. That's a fact of life with many consumer-oriented commercial operating systems.
In general, operating systems that have hobbyists or special-purpose (embedded, itty-bitty-server, etc.) customers as a significant portion of their desired user base should publish "as is, unsupported" work-arounds to allow hobbyists and specialty-aftermarket-VARs to install the base OS plus as many bits as pieces as they want that will fit on powerful-enough-to-boot-the-kernel-but-too-wimpy-to-warrant-supporting hardware, provided that the customer realizes that "he's on his own" for support.
Microsoft will sell support contracts for XP and older OSes to those willing and able to ante up.
However, your point is well taken for cash-strapped large enterprises (think governments, charities, companies with cash-flow problems, etc.) and for smaller companies who contract with other entities and who may have contractual obligations to upgrade away from XP by a certain date.
Would you use a circa 2001 ver of linux or macos?
I'm assuming you are talking about "PCs" as we normally thing of them, not special-purpose boxes, embedded systems, etc.
The answer is yes, if either
1) I had to, because my applications wouldn't run on the newer versions (think PPC-only binaries that I don't have the source for - okay, that's mid-2000s-era, but still).
or
2) it got the job done without any negative downsides and the cost to upgrade (license fees, new hardware, training, etc.) was too high. Think isolated (no Internet) systems OR the mythical (?) 2001 version of Linux or MacOS that was still vendor-supported and which had a supported security package available.
Heck, if Windows 2000 was still supported and it ran the software I needed to run (modern security software, modern web browsers with modern plug-ins, etc.) I would recommend it over XP to anyone with a sub-512MB computer.
Ditto Windows NT for computers in the 16-128MB range, provided I plugged all the security holes (disable LMHash, etc.) and my users were okay with a user interface that is as alien as Windows 8 is from Windows 2000/xp/7.
So unless MS relents and lets people get some boxes with Win7
"Pro" versions of Windows 8 come with downgrade rights. Many businesses have been "buying" Windows 8 Pro but installing Windows 7.
still get the job done without being an unacceptable security risk to their employees, their data, or the rest of their network there is no compelling reason to buy a new computer.
There, fixed that for you.
We know that people under 21 aren't legally responsible enough to be trusted to buy alcohol, so why should rapists under 16-17 be held to the same standards as adults?*
Now, 1-2 years may be a bit low for your typical 15 year old tried-as-a-juvenile rapist but under certain circumstances or in states which give more than lip service to the idea that juveniles should be rehabilitated rather than punished, 1-2 years may be appropriate.
*If I'm wrong, if 20 year olds as a group really are mature enough to buy booze and use it as responsibly as those a year older, then we need to lower the drinking age, but that's a discussion for another time.
self-checkout, heat sensing, etc. etc.
I don't know where you are from but these were "live" in grocery stores in my part of the United States years ago.
It's the release manager's call to decide what to take. He could've said "no" but didn't. Heck, he could've yelled at the developers and said "HELL @#$^ING NO" in public, but he didn't.
It's also his job to take the heat for unpopular decisions and defend them if necessary.
Finally, a "slashvertiement" that doesn't reek of spam!
Albino Blacksheep video says it all.
We'd get our robot minions to fight over it for us.
And 100? How about when you turned 101? 110?
Were you the only kid in class that could count to 11111111 using your fingers and no thumbs?
Did it impress your teacher or did she give you a pair of F's for being a smarty-pants?
Is a single photon considered an "uber-short beyond all uber-shortness" laser pulse?
If not, what about to arbitrary successive photons in a laser beam - if all of the photons before and after them were diverted, would these two photons together constitute an extremely short laser pulse?
If the answer to either is yes, how many "laser beam photons" in a row do you need (assuming a single-photon-wide beam) before whether the beam is a "laser" or not has any practical significance? Or is a single-photon-wide laser beam in and of itself either so impractical to make or so "not different" from a non-laser single-photon-wide beam that the question is purely academic?
Not being a physicist, I don't know the answer. But I'm curious to find out.
Yeah, it will raise costs but you don't need beer to live.
Now, if the chemicals start affecting tap water or the wells people drink out of, well, mister, them's fightin' words!*
*"Oh, what, cheap energy for all in exchange for drinking poison? I'm flexible." - the unspoken words many in the public are actually thinking but don't dare say.
Now that would sting!