Last summer i visited an uncle at the plant near New Orleans that makes the external tanks. He gave me a tour and talked about the changes they were making, but he also made a comment that suprised me: he said if it were up to him, he would have never scrapped the Saturn V. His comment seems to have even more wisdom since Discovery's complications.
He's been there a while. He was part of the Apollo 1 disaster investigation also. (!)
IT'S A FREAKING COMPANY! THEY MAKE PROCESSORS FOR SEVERAL ARCHITECTURES! GET YOUR TECHNOLOGY JOURNALIST[sic] HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSES AND USE CLEAR, PRECISE LANGUAGE FOR ONCE!
maybe if i throw in some lowercase stuff at the end, the "lameness filter" (a.k.a. strong feelings filter) won't reject me this time.
These folks had to be logged in to access the info. Did they agree to a user agreement that said something about attempts to access information they aren't intended to have access to? If not, I say all bets are off and the students exhibited no dishonesty--especially since nothing was "stolen" except innocuous information. If they did accept such an agreement, I would say their actions were dishonest.
um, i don't know a lot about firewire (and/or USB for that matter), but my guess would be that you don't get DMA like you do with the drive connected directly to an ATA port.
my guess is that they get faster performance, but the cpu overhead is greater, leaving less time for processes to run while i/o is going on.
it sounds possible the OP lowered the TTL on entries expecting that to have a retroactive effect on servers with the entries already cached. can we get confirmation that this is not what is happening?
>Dinosaurs are extinct because they didn't have a space program.
From news i've heard, we're getting very close to being able to breed dinosaurs from their preserved DNA. Perhaps we should just hope the same happens for us if we become extinct.
<obligatory dubyah crack>... i just hope the new race of earthlings is smart enough not to clone someone like Dubyah. </obligatory dubyah crack>
Of course, there is no substitute for testing the hell out of it as much as possible before releasing.
um, formal verification is *superior* to testing the hell out of it, because testing alone can't even come close to being exhaustive.
Hardware design is actually software design anyway
in theory, there's a huge difference. software can be infinite-state. hardware is necessarily finite-state. this helps a little in practice, but it's not a huge benefit.
what makes hardware design different from most software design is that you have a well-defined high-level specification that you *must* implement. software requirements are usually ad hoc and evolve.
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what the hell kind of review of a small gadget doesn't give you a feel for its size with a photo of a person holding it?
oh wait, a crappy one that slashdot links to.
Speaking of Saturn V...
Last summer i visited an uncle at the plant near New Orleans that makes the external tanks. He gave me a tour and talked about the changes they were making, but he also made a comment that suprised me: he said if it were up to him, he would have never scrapped the Saturn V. His comment seems to have even more wisdom since Discovery's complications.
He's been there a while. He was part of the Apollo 1 disaster investigation also. (!)
it gives detailed information throughout the whole milky way?
IT'S A FREAKING COMPANY! THEY MAKE PROCESSORS FOR SEVERAL ARCHITECTURES! GET YOUR TECHNOLOGY JOURNALIST[sic] HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSES AND USE CLEAR, PRECISE LANGUAGE FOR ONCE!
maybe if i throw in some lowercase stuff at the end, the "lameness filter" (a.k.a. strong feelings filter) won't reject me this time.
These folks had to be logged in to access the info. Did they agree to a user agreement that said something about attempts to access information they aren't intended to have access to? If not, I say all bets are off and the students exhibited no dishonesty--especially since nothing was "stolen" except innocuous information. If they did accept such an agreement, I would say their actions were dishonest.
you mean like OS/2 Ludicrous? that would rock. ;)
um, i don't know a lot about firewire (and/or USB for that matter), but my guess would be that you don't get DMA like you do with the drive connected directly to an ATA port.
my guess is that they get faster performance, but the cpu overhead is greater, leaving less time for processes to run while i/o is going on.
That's amazing. I want to know what 80% of the world, which doesn't use the internet but does use internet explorer, is using it for...
... are cheaper in my experience, since they're geared toward the value market.
quit yer whining and buy a motherboard.
it sounds possible the OP lowered the TTL on entries expecting that to have a retroactive effect on servers with the entries already cached. can we get confirmation that this is not what is happening?
>We really should invest in perfect, 100% reliable data storage, here, in our offices
um, according to my understanding of modern physics, this is not possible. you can always put in more effort to get closer to 100% reliability.
um, according to my understanding of physical security, this is not possible. you can always put in more effort to get closer to 100% reliability.
>Dinosaurs are extinct because they didn't have a space program.
... i just hope the new race of earthlings is smart enough not to clone someone like Dubyah. </obligatory dubyah crack>
From news i've heard, we're getting very close to being able to breed dinosaurs from their preserved DNA. Perhaps we should just hope the same happens for us if we become extinct.
<obligatory dubyah crack>
um, formal verification is *superior* to testing the hell out of it, because testing alone can't even come close to being exhaustive.
Hardware design is actually software design anyway
in theory, there's a huge difference. software can be infinite-state. hardware is necessarily finite-state. this helps a little in practice, but it's not a huge benefit.
what makes hardware design different from most software design is that you have a well-defined high-level specification that you *must* implement. software requirements are usually ad hoc and evolve.