Other models of the Trust chip are boobytrapped to self destruct if you attempt to get you key out, and I'd wager these CPUs are boobytrapped to self destruct as well.
How are you trying to "get you key out"? I imagine if you're using a Dremel, that is pretty destructive.
The "whistleblower" status is for people who know that something dirty and wrong is going on and turn over their evidence to internal agencies of the government to deal with it. A whistleblower takes his knowledge and does not go public with it.
That's a fine definition for whistleblower but it's your own, not at all universal. I wonder where you picked it up.
Just out of curiousity, would you consider someone like Jeffrey Wigand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Wigand something other than a "whistleblower"? What's your word for what he did?
What is $5000 to SUNW? Say they send them to 100 reviewers (probably less since we tend to concentrate on a few popular sites) who basically help them get the word out. Sun losts $5mil.
Of what good is a 1Gb/s ethernet connection to a consumer if his hard drive can only read/write data at a peak rate of 400 or 500 Mb/s ? The speed of the LAN is irrelevant at that point.
There's this thing called "disk caching." Maybe you've heard of it. On servers these days there are many cases where pretty much everything you'll ever want to serve off the disks can be cached in memory, which totally removes disk I/O speed as a bottleneck.
Also, you're assuming that everything I ever might want to serve is going to be read off a disk first. I can't imagine why.
Maybe they aren't taking in cash hand over fist like they used to, but SGI still holds some serious patents that are being used by Nvidia, ATI, and other major players. I doubt they will go the SCO route and start suing everyone, but don't be surprised if there is a bidding war over this particular bloated corpse.
Yeah, between really good inertial navigation and celestial navigation, GPS is pretty much redundant. Which is a good thing, since we can't necessarily rely on those satellites being there in a major conflict.
And the Pentagon has just issued plans to retire the F-117 in FY2008, in favour of more F-22s.
Wow, that's... a complete non sequitur. It's interesting though. Traditionally the Air Force would wait for the F-22 to prove itself, I would think. Perhaps the operational costs of both these planes are high enough that they can't do that.
The drone mentioned in that book is probably the D-21 drone, launched from the back of the SR-71 aircraft at altitude. It pretty much failed.
If it's the same drone I'm thinking of, which rates a few pages in the book, it was an operational test program and it was successful enough for what it was intended to do. Ben Rich blamed its losses on the Air Force insisting on handling maintenance operations, rather than Lockheed personnel. He attributed the Blackbird's long-term operational success in part to the quality of Lockheed's personnel, but I guess he was rather biased.
I'm pretty sure launching from an SR-71 wasn't the only way they launched this drone. I don't have the book in front of me, but according to Rich, Kelly Johnson was strongly opposed to launching drones from the Blackbird after a test pilot was killed doing it. That might be what ended the program, actually, but it was a long book and there's the risk of conflating incidents on different programs when going from memory like this.
I don't have a ready reference for you, I don't trust the aerospace-related wikipedia entries one bit.
Ben Rich's book "Skunk Works" details a supersonic, stealth recon drone which was operational in the seventies before the F117 was created. The article, unfortunately, doesn't mention this and makes it sound as though unmanned craft are a new thing for these guys.
If we spent as much today as we did on the Apollo program, we'd be able to get a craft ready in a very short period of time.
There's nothing in the world to support that contention. It seems a lot more likely that if we spent as much today as we did on the Apollo program, we would get a lot less, thanks to the bureaucracy and regulatory mess.
This is a bit misleading, the summary starts out talking about the engines, the swaps to the launch vehicle. In fact, the J-2 engines had considerable problems on the flight of Apollo 6 [wikipedia.org]. The pogo problem was not cured until Apollo 14. (In fact, though it was overshadowed by later events, it came quite close to causing an abort on Apollo 13.)
Isn't pogo more about the design of the rocket as a whole than just the engine, which is the part that is being considered here? I really don't know, I'm asking, but you're talking about oscillation between the engine and the rest of the booster, right?
In fact, when the Apollo series is looked at critically - one becomes astonished by the number of near misses and diving catches. NASA was lucky, very lucky.
That was largely by design, in a way. I read something recently quoting Armstrong as saying he figured at the time that they had a fifty-fifty chance of making it to the moon and back successfully. They all sort of understood that what they were trying to do was pretty risky and put as brave a face on it as they could. That's not quite the same as the NASA of today, which apparently believes its own BS at many times.
Sure, the self driving cars can probably cut crashes and resulting deaths by some huge percent, but there will still be some that happen. Then, those crashes and deaths will be the responsibility of the car manufacturer who will get sued into oblivion.
Of all the legislative hurdles to making that happen, indemnification of the manufacturers will be the least of them, I think.
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All the time. It works great.
Christ that's stupid.
How are you trying to "get you key out"? I imagine if you're using a Dremel, that is pretty destructive.
What a bunch of dumb FUD.
Given Office's release schedule, all they need to do would be to introduce a really useful new feature which Office hasn't implemented yet.
That's a fine definition for whistleblower but it's your own, not at all universal. I wonder where you picked it up.
Just out of curiousity, would you consider someone like Jeffrey Wigand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Wigand something other than a "whistleblower"? What's your word for what he did?
This is completely incorrect, as others have noted.
I can see you're using a pentium to do your math.
You were playing Quake 3 on a handheld 5 years ago?
There's this thing called "disk caching." Maybe you've heard of it. On servers these days there are many cases where pretty much everything you'll ever want to serve off the disks can be cached in memory, which totally removes disk I/O speed as a bottleneck.
Also, you're assuming that everything I ever might want to serve is going to be read off a disk first. I can't imagine why.
They didn't sell the entire portfolio. Just everything valuable. :(
Not so much, anymore. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/16/18242
My keyboard can't saturate a 1 gigabit ethernet connection, either. A nonsensical observation, but no more than yours.
Trying really hard to figure out why you think you're telling me something I don't know...
Yeah, between really good inertial navigation and celestial navigation, GPS is pretty much redundant. Which is a good thing, since we can't necessarily rely on those satellites being there in a major conflict.
Wow, that's... a complete non sequitur. It's interesting though. Traditionally the Air Force would wait for the F-22 to prove itself, I would think. Perhaps the operational costs of both these planes are high enough that they can't do that.
If it's the same drone I'm thinking of, which rates a few pages in the book, it was an operational test program and it was successful enough for what it was intended to do. Ben Rich blamed its losses on the Air Force insisting on handling maintenance operations, rather than Lockheed personnel. He attributed the Blackbird's long-term operational success in part to the quality of Lockheed's personnel, but I guess he was rather biased.
I'm pretty sure launching from an SR-71 wasn't the only way they launched this drone. I don't have the book in front of me, but according to Rich, Kelly Johnson was strongly opposed to launching drones from the Blackbird after a test pilot was killed doing it. That might be what ended the program, actually, but it was a long book and there's the risk of conflating incidents on different programs when going from memory like this.
I don't have a ready reference for you, I don't trust the aerospace-related wikipedia entries one bit.
Ben Rich's book "Skunk Works" details a supersonic, stealth recon drone which was operational in the seventies before the F117 was created. The article, unfortunately, doesn't mention this and makes it sound as though unmanned craft are a new thing for these guys.
Wow, you really have no idea what you're talking about. Bet you were a great engineer!
Many of the people to whom this would appeal would need to budget for a new CPU as well, right? Or are there a lot of PCIe Athlon XP mother boards?
Never mind having to reinstall everything, as opposed to just sticking in a new card.
Oh, pure evil! Down with Microsoft!
There's nothing in the world to support that contention. It seems a lot more likely that if we spent as much today as we did on the Apollo program, we would get a lot less, thanks to the bureaucracy and regulatory mess.
Isn't pogo more about the design of the rocket as a whole than just the engine, which is the part that is being considered here? I really don't know, I'm asking, but you're talking about oscillation between the engine and the rest of the booster, right?
That was largely by design, in a way. I read something recently quoting Armstrong as saying he figured at the time that they had a fifty-fifty chance of making it to the moon and back successfully. They all sort of understood that what they were trying to do was pretty risky and put as brave a face on it as they could. That's not quite the same as the NASA of today, which apparently believes its own BS at many times.
Of all the legislative hurdles to making that happen, indemnification of the manufacturers will be the least of them, I think.
"Impute" is a funny word to use there. I think their actions are representative of the profession, yes.
Now, there will always be a few bad apples who place reason, justice or love of the law above money. They are certainly the exception.
Poor lawyers. It's enough to make one wonder why they are so disliked as a profession. I'm sure it cannot be through any fault of their own.
But for your information, I'm capable of making observations regarding any number of professions. I can't imagine why you'd think otherwise.
Ooooh, a punk! Story touched a nerve, did it?
It sounds like someone has learned a life lesson about what kind of "richer" the legal profession is preoccupied with.
Damn. That looks like a crappy toy.