Crude's pretty complex. But there's other hydrocarbons in lots of other places that most likely didn't have dinosaurs & ferns. The Jovian planets have got methane in their atmospheres IIRC.
Never saw Windows. But The Channel Channel (whatever the channel guide is called) here ran on Amigas. Occasionally you could tune in to a Guru Meditation error!
I read in one of the old magazines for the Commodores that there were about 10 million C-64s, so we're a bit short even for large values of 1.0x10^6 and small values of 1.0*10^8.
However, there was Project LUnix to provide 64s and 128s with a multitasking OS. 0.37 BogoMIPS, baby!
Did you make a special case for this, or do you just believe everything you read?
Snopes.com has no agenda for or against aspartame. Check them out. Put "aspartame" in the handy site search engine. Read what they've posted. Visit the links for both points of view which are represented. Exercise some critical thinking skills (big-font underlined blink tags have no bearing on the truth even if they do make for an ugly web site).
Anyone know how big a hard drive you can put in a p100?
Linux doesn't go through the BIOS. Put in as big a hard drive as you can afford or will fit in the case. When you install Linux, put a/boot partition where the BIOS can see it just to get started. When Linux takes over, it can mount the partitions which extend past what the BIOS is capable of addressing normally. Check out the HOWTO on large hard drives.
I had a 486 with a 13GB hard drive. The BIOS only saw 8GB, but the whole thing was available under Linux.
The one good thing about Battlefield Earth is that I was reminded about the importance of good dental hygiene every time the Psyclos were on screen. For a race with such advanced technology in other areas, they were sure lagging in toothbrushes and floss!
I already got that with Junkbuster! (though I still have to stop and think about why a site might act funny if Junkbuster's eating the site's cookies...)
Did Greg misunderstand the last question? It looked to me like the asker wanted to know about using spare CPU cycles like d.net, except to crunch weather numbers instead of crypto keys. Still, though, it'd seem that a d.net type of cluster wouldn't be a good application here, because the forecasting models want a level of interconnect between the nodes that's not necessary for what d.net focuses on.
Preach it bruvvah! I can't tell you how many times I've gone on service calls to re-map a drive letter (no, really!). And when I ask the user what the server and share name were, "Um... O:?" Argh! My current office can all repeat my mantra, "Drive letters are evil!"
Survey says... BZZT! Nuclear plants continue to be engineered and built, just not in the US. Both Westinghouse and General Electric have been developing new reactors (search for CANDU). They're just not being built in your backyard.
Er, not quite. Roads are physical objects, subject to wear and tear. All maintained roads are toll roads, in a sense. The public roads on which there are no toll booths simply get their tolls as taxes somewhere else.
Music is not subject to wear and tear as such, so there are no ongoing costs to maintain it. I think the artists are certainly entitled to compensation for the effort of creating the music. I'm okay with buying CDs, but that should mean for me that I have a license to privately do anything I want with that music. I should be allowed to back it up, to convert it to a different medium, or whatever.
But I'm not at all interested in having to pay tolls every time I want to hear a song.
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The main benefit of a robot with two legs is to eventually make an android out of the thing. Humans might not have the optimal shape for a lot of things, but we still cope. Human-modeled robots will be able to function in an environment designed for humans. A smart car can drive Miss Daisy around, but it won't be able to help her up the house steps. But a smart humanoid robot would be able to drive a dumb car, help her up the steps, and reach the cat food on the top shelf in the kitchen. Having an android means that you don't need three separate robots each optimized for only one task.
There's a comparison to be made WRT software design- many small tools vs. monolithic apps.
Mechanically speaking, it's probably been possible to do something like this for quite a while. What makes this new is that the robot is now able to figure some things out for itself in case it misses. It uses stereo vision to locate colored balls on its joints, giving it a sort of kinesthetic sense. So if it misses a rung, it can adjust and take another swing at it.
I wonder why they told it the distance between the rungs, though. If the robot is fast enough to track its own movements in three dimensions, what stops it from locating the next rung the same way?
The part about targetting "personal home pages" doesn't seem quite right to me. Maybe I'm missing something, but:
1) First, you have to have a personal home page which is regularly updated. I haven't updated my personal home page in quite a while- it was really just a very short exercise in HTML- but I still access it almost daily. I have links to Alta Vista and Deja.com which use the text-only interfaces. I use them all the time. It's here just in case anyone's interested. Does incrementing some web counter count as "regularly updated"?
2) For my personal home page, I was only allowed access to two scripts provided in my ISP's cgi-bin. If you wanted your own cgi-bin, you needed to buy a commercial account. How many other personal home pages have similar restrictions?
Even though I don't have anything worth indexing, I have to wonder just what Alta Vista's thinking with this.
RH safely compiles all their apps and kernel for i386 making it compatible with any iX86 machine out their. Mandrake re-compiled all the applications etc for i586 or higher, so while your not going to install it on that left over 486
I read this too, but not until I'd successfully installed and run Mandrake 6.0 on my old 486/66. I have had only one problem so far where I didn't know what the cause was, but it seems to run just fine otherwise.
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...asked about carbon nanotube thermometers revealed about their own research: "These go to eleven (microns)."
The company should only have stolen BSD licensed code if they were't planning on making the source available. Sheesh.
How many other companies are doing the same thing?
Crude's pretty complex. But there's other hydrocarbons in lots of other places that most likely didn't have dinosaurs & ferns. The Jovian planets have got methane in their atmospheres IIRC.
Couldn't have been too bad: the Saturn V used for the Apollo and Skylab missions had a 100% success rate.
Before that, yeah, there was a bit of a learning curve.
The thickness of the steel-reinforced concrete of the containment building was about 4' at the plant I worked at.
Wasn't that a Tim Allen TV show?
Whoa, there, podner! What about all the other little rocks whose orbits Jupiter perturbs enough to send them closer to Earth?
It's a running joke. Like Windows, except funnier.
Never saw Windows. But The Channel Channel (whatever the channel guide is called) here ran on Amigas. Occasionally you could tune in to a Guru Meditation error!
However, there was Project LUnix to provide 64s and 128s with a multitasking OS. 0.37 BogoMIPS, baby!
Did you make a special case for this, or do you just believe everything you read?
Snopes.com has no agenda for or against aspartame. Check them out. Put "aspartame" in the handy site search engine. Read what they've posted. Visit the links for both points of view which are represented. Exercise some critical thinking skills (big-font underlined blink tags have no bearing on the truth even if they do make for an ugly web site).
Linux doesn't go through the BIOS. Put in as big a hard drive as you can afford or will fit in the case. When you install Linux, put a /boot partition where the BIOS can see it just to get started. When Linux takes over, it can mount the partitions which extend past what the BIOS is capable of addressing normally. Check out the HOWTO on large hard drives.
I had a 486 with a 13GB hard drive. The BIOS only saw 8GB, but the whole thing was available under Linux.
The one good thing about Battlefield Earth is that I was reminded about the importance of good dental hygiene every time the Psyclos were on screen. For a race with such advanced technology in other areas, they were sure lagging in toothbrushes and floss!
I already got that with Junkbuster! (though I still have to stop and think about why a site might act funny if Junkbuster's eating the site's cookies...)
Check it out!
"Dragon Slave!" Ka-blam!
Damn! When I started typing my message, there were only 10 comments. By the time I was finished, I was #37! -SGT, inuntentionally redundant...
Did Greg misunderstand the last question? It looked to me like the asker wanted to know about using spare CPU cycles like d.net, except to crunch weather numbers instead of crypto keys. Still, though, it'd seem that a d.net type of cluster wouldn't be a good application here, because the forecasting models want a level of interconnect between the nodes that's not necessary for what d.net focuses on.
Preach it bruvvah! I can't tell you how many times I've gone on service calls to re-map a drive letter (no, really!). And when I ask the user what the server and share name were, "Um... O:?" Argh! My current office can all repeat my mantra, "Drive letters are evil!"
Survey says... BZZT! Nuclear plants continue to be engineered and built, just not in the US. Both Westinghouse and General Electric have been developing new reactors (search for CANDU). They're just not being built in your backyard.
Music is not subject to wear and tear as such, so there are no ongoing costs to maintain it. I think the artists are certainly entitled to compensation for the effort of creating the music. I'm okay with buying CDs, but that should mean for me that I have a license to privately do anything I want with that music. I should be allowed to back it up, to convert it to a different medium, or whatever.
But I'm not at all interested in having to pay tolls every time I want to hear a song.
There's a comparison to be made WRT software design- many small tools vs. monolithic apps.
I wonder why they told it the distance between the rungs, though. If the robot is fast enough to track its own movements in three dimensions, what stops it from locating the next rung the same way?
1) First, you have to have a personal home page which is regularly updated. I haven't updated my personal home page in quite a while- it was really just a very short exercise in HTML- but I still access it almost daily. I have links to Alta Vista and Deja.com which use the text-only interfaces. I use them all the time. It's here just in case anyone's interested. Does incrementing some web counter count as "regularly updated"?
2) For my personal home page, I was only allowed access to two scripts provided in my ISP's cgi-bin. If you wanted your own cgi-bin, you needed to buy a commercial account. How many other personal home pages have similar restrictions?
Even though I don't have anything worth indexing, I have to wonder just what Alta Vista's thinking with this.
RH safely compiles all their apps and kernel for i386 making it compatible with any iX86 machine out their. Mandrake re-compiled all the applications etc for i586 or higher, so while your not going to install it on that left over 486
I read this too, but not until I'd successfully installed and run Mandrake 6.0 on my old 486/66. I have had only one problem so far where I didn't know what the cause was, but it seems to run just fine otherwise.