TFA does not mention what is he using for graphical display. Framebuffer would be ideal choice, but Ubuntu for some reason blacklists framebuffer and having worked on similar project, I know that enabling framebuffer is kind of tricky on Ubuntu systems. For some reason, I always believed geexbox provides best trimmed kernel, fast bootable, and much better.
this can be used to build the world's smallest washing machine.
Probably not. From TFA,
In larger bodies of water, these effects become insignificant and the rotation stops. Which is why these motors have only ever been seen in thin films.
We have worked on star wars programs....Is it not possible to build a super precise Laser based weapon to target the terrorists no matter where they are? A small pulse of Laser in the head of terrorist and he is gone. A good telescope with good precision laser should be able to take care of any terrorist without launching any drone attacks. I understand it may have its own technical challenges, but US certainly can do it. Isn't it?
I know you are trying to be funny, but there is huge difference between some of the best organizations like Infosys, Wipro, I-flex of India and fat-ass ministers/bureaucrats, who have no clue about what is difference between hard disk and monitor.
I mean if you do not see why a company should pay more for my services when someone is willing to do it for less, then I would like to see the following:
Microsoft should outsource management or hire H-1B visa personnel for management positions as well. It will be cheaper for the company too. How about that?
Some companies have filled top management positions with non-Americans, when they have proved that they are capable and affordable. Parent is not talking about just programmers or managers. Basically, every company has freedom to adopt means to improve profitability and if that includes outsourcing OR getting more H1B holders, it is their decision. In a 'free trade' world the natural choice would always be "cheaper and better".
That's an insane amount of resources to pour into a project.
True. For making enriched Uranium or weapon grade Plutonium (building reactors, centrifuges, reprocessing units, waste management etc...) Yes.
But once you have Plutonium READY in your hands, you just need just a handful of people to make a working implosion device. It is not as difficult as you are feeling.
a simple fact that no technology comes without some cost associated. The goodies of Freon were soon frowned upon looking at effect of it on Ozone layers OR nuclear technology when it became clear that nuclear waste disposal could pose much bigger problem than it solves.
While appreciating all the technology breakthrough, I am just trying to justify my reasons to leave the urban world and live happily country side...enjoying everyday with farmers...appreciating beauty of nature. It sucks many ways, no doubt. But this kind of news just makes me feel better.
Back on topic, I guess a good drive of awareness about safety and other precautions should solve the problem of Guiyu. Some the reprocessing processes could be reviewed to reduce the exposure of toxic chemicals to other civilians.
Solar powered laptops, is something I had been waiting for. Maybe I am day dreaming, but the back of LCD panel could be fully covered with Solar Cells and trickle charge the battery, which might run my laptop for 5-6 hours before needing recharge. I guess solar cells have not become that efficient yet, but, is anybody trying it?
Linux might look as obvious choice, but maybe Toshiba went with OpenSolaris for financial, marketing and support reasons. (financially they might be saving money thanks to Sun's generosity instead of paying to Linux Vendors, Just a guess)
The end user still have option to create partition (or wipe out OpenSolaris the way we do with Windows), and install Linux. The good news is, end user will have one more OS to play with and no need to pay Microsoft tax.
I showed it to my son last year. He looked at it for a moment then asked me where the dvd drive was....
There are, it seems, some things a parent is best not sharing with a child.
That's nothing. While explaining importance of disciplined backups to a group of freshers, I was telling this story of a screwup while upgrading hard disk. When I mentioned 'while upgrading the hard disk from 20MB to 40MB', these all freshers burst out with laughter. I somehow handled situation while saying, 'you would laugh more, if I tell the configuration of my first PC. 8088, 4.77MHz, 256KB, Dual floppy, CGA card with Monochrome Monitor'.
Sometimes difficult to explain the world we have lived with.
And half life is a major issue deciding life of weapon in many cases. Various isotopes of U and Pu give range of lifespan for weapons, depending upon purity etc. 40 years is a long time for Pu to decay and the device might not function even in right condition, if it is based on it.
IANAE, but the Wikipedia says An ADIRU acts as a "single, fault tolerant" source for both pilots of an aircraft., and there are 3 ADIRUs.
From TFA,
faulty computer triggered a series of alarms and then prompted the Airbus A330's flight control computers to put the jet into a 197-metre nosedive.
I wonder whether the control computers are programmed to take decision to nosedive just like that OR consult other ADIRUs OR alarm the crew before taking that kind of decision.
Having worked for nuclear installations where I designed automations for, which always demanded to have 2 out of 3 voting redundancy and a careful fault tree analysis making sure no single point of failure would lead to any kind of disaster, I feel the control computer might have been taking decision without consulting other ADIRUs OR all 3 ADIRUs went bad at the same time. And both cases look very scary.
In US it is easy to fire underperformers, but not in Canada.
With personal experience I can say that the kind of money we wasted^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hspent in hope to bring some morons in Canada to a level of a programmer, we could have easily built another Cisco, with the help of Indian programmers. I do that now, having learnt my lessons, and I am happy I did that. It is much easier to pick good skilled among those 1 billion people and bring them to our standards than risking my projects.
TFA does not tell more except it is 802.11n. Not sure whether I am paranoid, but will anybody on road will be able to hack in my TV and show something I don't want to see?
There has been wave of fuel efficient bikes in India after Honda introduced 'Hero Honda' bike with fuel efficiency as high as 60 Kmpl (142 miles per galon). Before that 2 wheelers had peak efficiency of 25-20 Kmpl (70mpg).
Vehicles with fuel efficiency as high as 100Kmpl (236 mpg) have been launched by some companies. I always wondered what made it possible and what technology they use.
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TFA does not mention what is he using for graphical display. Framebuffer would be ideal choice, but Ubuntu for some reason blacklists framebuffer and having worked on similar project, I know that enabling framebuffer is kind of tricky on Ubuntu systems. For some reason, I always believed geexbox provides best trimmed kernel, fast bootable, and much better.
this can be used to build the world's smallest washing machine.
Probably not. From TFA,
In larger bodies of water, these effects become insignificant and the rotation stops. Which is why these motors have only ever been seen in thin films.
Hmm...Ok some thoughts....
We have worked on star wars programs....Is it not possible to build a super precise Laser based weapon to target the terrorists no matter where they are? A small pulse of Laser in the head of terrorist and he is gone. A good telescope with good precision laser should be able to take care of any terrorist without launching any drone attacks. I understand it may have its own technical challenges, but US certainly can do it. Isn't it?
Bill: You won't believe Steve is such a good dancer.
(Ballmer jumps on stage for monkey dance)
Bill: Oh, forgot to mention, I was talking about Wozniak.
Bill does this all the time at the office for target practice for Ballmer.
Aaaah....That explains about monkey dance too :)
I know you are trying to be funny, but there is huge difference between some of the best organizations like Infosys, Wipro, I-flex of India and fat-ass ministers/bureaucrats, who have no clue about what is difference between hard disk and monitor.
My 2 cents.
I mean if you do not see why a company should pay more for my services when someone is willing to do it for less, then I would like to see the following:
Microsoft should outsource management or hire H-1B visa personnel for management positions as well. It will be cheaper for the company too. How about that?
Some companies have filled top management positions with non-Americans, when they have proved that they are capable and affordable. Parent is not talking about just programmers or managers. Basically, every company has freedom to adopt means to improve profitability and if that includes outsourcing OR getting more H1B holders, it is their decision. In a 'free trade' world the natural choice would always be "cheaper and better".
That's an insane amount of resources to pour into a project.
True. For making enriched Uranium or weapon grade Plutonium (building reactors, centrifuges, reprocessing units, waste management etc...) Yes.
But once you have Plutonium READY in your hands, you just need just a handful of people to make a working implosion device. It is not as difficult as you are feeling.
a simple fact that no technology comes without some cost associated. The goodies of Freon were soon frowned upon looking at effect of it on Ozone layers OR nuclear technology when it became clear that nuclear waste disposal could pose much bigger problem than it solves.
While appreciating all the technology breakthrough, I am just trying to justify my reasons to leave the urban world and live happily country side...enjoying everyday with farmers...appreciating beauty of nature. It sucks many ways, no doubt. But this kind of news just makes me feel better.
Back on topic, I guess a good drive of awareness about safety and other precautions should solve the problem of Guiyu. Some the reprocessing processes could be reviewed to reduce the exposure of toxic chemicals to other civilians.
Solar powered laptops, is something I had been waiting for. Maybe I am day dreaming, but the back of LCD panel could be fully covered with Solar Cells and trickle charge the battery, which might run my laptop for 5-6 hours before needing recharge. I guess solar cells have not become that efficient yet, but, is anybody trying it?
Linux might look as obvious choice, but maybe Toshiba went with OpenSolaris for financial, marketing and support reasons. (financially they might be saving money thanks to Sun's generosity instead of paying to Linux Vendors, Just a guess)
The end user still have option to create partition (or wipe out OpenSolaris the way we do with Windows), and install Linux. The good news is, end user will have one more OS to play with and no need to pay Microsoft tax.
Well done ASA. Now go after adverts that gave me impression I could get hold of a chick in 30 seconds if I use their products!!!!
I showed it to my son last year. He looked at it for a moment then asked me where the dvd drive was....
There are, it seems, some things a parent is best not sharing with a child.
That's nothing. While explaining importance of disciplined backups to a group of freshers, I was telling this story of a screwup while upgrading hard disk. When I mentioned 'while upgrading the hard disk from 20MB to 40MB', these all freshers burst out with laughter. I somehow handled situation while saying, 'you would laugh more, if I tell the configuration of my first PC. 8088, 4.77MHz, 256KB, Dual floppy, CGA card with Monochrome Monitor'.
Sometimes difficult to explain the world we have lived with.
Yes.
And half life is a major issue deciding life of weapon in many cases. Various isotopes of U and Pu give range of lifespan for weapons, depending upon purity etc. 40 years is a long time for Pu to decay and the device might not function even in right condition, if it is based on it.
You have posted anonymously and looking for Karma?
Sounds like masturbating on Eiffel Tower and hoping somehow it reaches Audrey Tautou!!!!
And if you can read book upside down, you are George W. Bush.
Why no redundancy?
Exactly my thought.
IANAE, but the Wikipedia says An ADIRU acts as a "single, fault tolerant" source for both pilots of an aircraft., and there are 3 ADIRUs.
From TFA,
faulty computer triggered a series of alarms and then prompted the Airbus A330's flight control computers to put the jet into a 197-metre nosedive.
I wonder whether the control computers are programmed to take decision to nosedive just like that OR consult other ADIRUs OR alarm the crew before taking that kind of decision.
Having worked for nuclear installations where I designed automations for, which always demanded to have 2 out of 3 voting redundancy and a careful fault tree analysis making sure no single point of failure would lead to any kind of disaster, I feel the control computer might have been taking decision without consulting other ADIRUs OR all 3 ADIRUs went bad at the same time. And both cases look very scary.
Just my thoughts.
We're all screwed...
No. Now he got laid. Didn't u read he is unusual calm after mass ejection!!!
George W. Bush is that you?
Must be. In the right part of his brain nothing is left and in the left part of his brain nothing is right!!!
Some karma burning time for me.
In US it is easy to fire underperformers, but not in Canada.
With personal experience I can say that the kind of money we wasted^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hspent in hope to bring some morons in Canada to a level of a programmer, we could have easily built another Cisco, with the help of Indian programmers. I do that now, having learnt my lessons, and I am happy I did that. It is much easier to pick good skilled among those 1 billion people and bring them to our standards than risking my projects.
My 2 cents.
TFA does not tell more except it is 802.11n. Not sure whether I am paranoid, but will anybody on road will be able to hack in my TV and show something I don't want to see?
The same page say something like...
The Computrace Agent communicates with modems through the Microsoft TAPI interface.
So, probably it works only if you reinstall Windows (though I would love to know how do they do it).
I would doubt if it survives after booting Livecd, make hard disk complete ext3fs, and then reinstall Windows.
Note to self: Remove remote access after stealing laptop!!!!
There has been wave of fuel efficient bikes in India after Honda introduced 'Hero Honda' bike with fuel efficiency as high as 60 Kmpl (142 miles per galon). Before that 2 wheelers had peak efficiency of 25-20 Kmpl (70mpg).
Vehicles with fuel efficiency as high as 100Kmpl (236 mpg) have been launched by some companies. I always wondered what made it possible and what technology they use.
It's hard to build a robot to discern friend from foe.
Look in the telephone directory. Simple!!!