Sorry, "Cairo" was Windows NT 4.0. It existed alongside "Memphis", Windows 98. They are both cities in Egypt. The code for XP was "Whistler", named after a ski slope in Washington State if I remember correctly.
There are two good reasons for NT 3.x. It was originally OS/2 version 3 while in development, and it was the NT kernel combined with the Windows 3.0 user interface. NT 4 was the NT kernel with the UI from the Windows 4.0 line (Windows 95 was briefly known as Windows 4.0 during beta. I still have that wallpaper around here somewhere)
I beta tested (officially) most of the Windows releases except for 3.11 and anything after longhorn. Each major release would often be refereed to by a sequence number and a code name. For instance, 95 was Win 4.0 a.k.a "Chicago". The numbering seems confusing because a lot of you are trying to incorporate NT, which for most of Windows life span was an independent product, and because 95 through ME were only incremental revisions to 95, not new projects in the same way Chicago, Whistler, and Longhorn were.
1 = Win 1.0
2 = Win 2.0
3 = Win 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, Some code shared with OS/2
4 = Win 95, Win 95 OS/R 2, Win 98, Win 98 SE, Win ME
5 = Windows XP (Move to the NT kernel.)
6 = Vista
7 = Windows 7
The parachute system is so complex because they need to slow the capsule down in stages before full deployment. If you just popped the main parachutes after rentry, they'd tear clean off and the passengers/payload would continue unabated until they rejoin the surface. Permanently.
Mainframes dead? They are the future of computing, in a sense. We spent 30 years severing the ties between the average user and "big iron", now we are desperately trying to reconnect everything. Facebook is not very far removed from the old RSTS accounts on my high school's PDP-11. We even had a login script set up that gave everyone's status ala Twitter, circa the late 80s (via finger or the RSTS equivelent).
I never understand stories like this. I'm a programmer, and I'm reasonably certain that with the aid of a good book and a short amount of time, I could most likely transition to any language that follows the basic rules of logic languages are built upon. If it's got variables, documented syntax, IO, and flow control you are pretty much good to go. Can't they find anyone out there who can read?
I used a discarded BUD, a modified "cable over the air" converter, a SSB radio receiver, and Spectrum Lab to listen to and detect the mars pathfinder probe as well as amateur satellites and lots of other fun things in the 2.4ghz area of the spectrum orbiting the planet. GOES image products were a favorite. Careful using it as a transmission antenna for Wi-Fi without knowing what you are doing. an 8 foot dish could probably give you 32dB of gain at 2.4Ghz, enough to make your EIRP from your 25mW router dangerous for a few feet. Much more so if you crank up the output power by unlocking the device or worse using an amplifier, which is illegal without a license (for the reason that it is in fact dangerous and potentially hazardous to other people). Considering the amount of interest in Mars and equipment in place right now there is probably some interesting eavesdropping to be done.
There is nothing "resonant" about a parabolic dish, the diameter determines potential gain and the shape is a function of the focal point. Gain increases as the wavelength becomes shorter in relation to the dish, so most dishes are more effective at Ku than C, which is why smaller Ku dishes provide similar gain figures to the old C band dishes. A common problem is that the mesh of the older BUDs is not tight enough to be reflective at shorter wavelengths, but most were dual-band C/Ku toward the end. Another design constraint is the "illumination" angle of the feed horn, in other words, the amount of the dish the feed can "see". Dish surface outside the illumination angle of the feed is useless, which is why we don't see very shallow dishes with the feedpoint very close.. these would require a feed with a wide illumination angle. The reason you don't go with the largest dish possible, besides space limitations, is that increased gain narrows the beam width of the antenna, which means it must be pointed with more accuracy. A small dish might provide sufficient gain when pointed within 10 degrees of the source, a huge dish might be a fraction of a degree. An 8ft dish used for Ku would be hard to point, but would provide phenomenal gain, probably more than most Ku band LNBs are being designed for these days, and I'd imagine it would overload if you couldn't turn down the gain of the amplifier. If you are providing more signal than your amplifier can handle, you've got either too much antenna or too much amplifier.
Most SUVs are offenders in many categories, but singling them out isn't the answer either. I commute in a Toyota Yaris, but I own a Jeep Wrangler as a "recreation vehicle" and for the winters. The Jeep is lifted and rides on mud tires, but driven conservatively I can get 20mpg in it. One of my neighbors drives a newish Mustang and gets 16 mpg. A friend with a pickup gets the same. The guy down the street with an RX-8 gets about 18. It isn't only SUVs that are consuming large amounts of fuel, and I've never heard anyone make a convincing argument that they "need" a Corvette. At least you can carpool in an SUV.
There used to be quite a few publicly accessible.mil addresses which hosted open ftp servers, irc servers, shell accounts, or had a gopher "site". White Sands in particular had a large file archive. It wasn't at all unusual.. the.mil did build this thing, after all. I think Sandia and MIT had decent file repositories on arpanet as well. I'm pretty sure my logon script used to finger White Sands or one of those for the weather and news.
I still have a VT100 and a 220 in storage. Up until a few years ago they saw use as console terminals on linux boxen. I still sort of miss using pine in green phos. monochrome with loud clicky keys..
20 years ago, the paper would have described them as geniuses and chalked it up to something like "Geeks will be geeks" and a slap on the wrist. Later, they'd have started a successful PC company, and it would become an interesting anecdote in their memoirs.
There are 31000 calories in a gallon of gasoline, so that's 44 Big Mac's over 55,352 football fields, resulting in 1258 AFF/BM (American Football Fields per Big Mac)
3145 miles works out to 1,246,666 VW Beetles (13.32 feet long) parked end to end.. (conincidentally, 1,300,000 Beetles was the amount produced annually at production peak).
The fuel (hypothetically) consumed occupied.13 cubic feet (1 cubic foot = 7.4 gallons). The VW beetle glove box was about 1 foot wide by 6 inches high and 6 inches deep, or.25 cubic feet, so fuel consumed was roughly half a VW Beetle glove box.
I was unable to find any useful size information on the Library of Congress beyond total pages.
/. is in need of more than just CSS. I would rather an emphasis be placed on usability instead of eye candy. I personally can't stand the menuing on the left hand side. Not only does it feel positively ancient, but it gets in the way of my eye travel across the screen. The way articles are squashed they appear as though they are an afterthought to the ads. I understand ads are necessary, but there is a reason I come to the site.. To read the articles. Finally, that green is just terrible.
It really feels like the rules of this contest were "Change everything, but you aren't allowed to change anything that matters." The winning design, while I'm sure was beyond my abilities and talents, ended up looking just like the old design because of the contraints. It doesn't look new or fresh at all to me.
In college, about 4 or 5 years ago, I went on a vacation to Europe and brought back a Coke from each country (as well as a Dr. Pepper.) In chem we had fun testing them for differences.
The syrup formulations are most definately different between some areas. European Coke tends to use cane sugar instead of High Fructose Corn syrup. Also, different countries tended to use different added sweeteners such as Sucralose or Ace K. The carmel coloring, and it's prortions appears to be different as well. Mineral content was much higher in the European sodas, especially phosphorus. The European sodas were less acidic.
I do remember that in our informal, small-sample "taste test", UK Coke and Dr Pepper were chosen as the "best" 100% of the time, and most people could distinguish the US versions from the others, but all the mainland European Coke's tasted pretty much the same. Of course, we were all Americans, so it's not like it was really scientific.
Personally, when I get over to Britain, I love a Coke and a Snickers.. and I don't drink/consume those items here. I think it's the difference in sugars.
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Sorry, "Cairo" was Windows NT 4.0. It existed alongside "Memphis", Windows 98. They are both cities in Egypt. The code for XP was "Whistler", named after a ski slope in Washington State if I remember correctly.
There are two good reasons for NT 3.x. It was originally OS/2 version 3 while in development, and it was the NT kernel combined with the Windows 3.0 user interface. NT 4 was the NT kernel with the UI from the Windows 4.0 line (Windows 95 was briefly known as Windows 4.0 during beta. I still have that wallpaper around here somewhere)
I beta tested (officially) most of the Windows releases except for 3.11 and anything after longhorn. Each major release would often be refereed to by a sequence number and a code name. For instance, 95 was Win 4.0 a.k.a "Chicago". The numbering seems confusing because a lot of you are trying to incorporate NT, which for most of Windows life span was an independent product, and because 95 through ME were only incremental revisions to 95, not new projects in the same way Chicago, Whistler, and Longhorn were.
1 = Win 1.0
2 = Win 2.0
3 = Win 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, Some code shared with OS/2
4 = Win 95, Win 95 OS/R 2, Win 98, Win 98 SE, Win ME
5 = Windows XP (Move to the NT kernel.)
6 = Vista
7 = Windows 7
The parachute system is so complex because they need to slow the capsule down in stages before full deployment. If you just popped the main parachutes after rentry, they'd tear clean off and the passengers/payload would continue unabated until they rejoin the surface. Permanently.
Mainframes dead? They are the future of computing, in a sense. We spent 30 years severing the ties between the average user and "big iron", now we are desperately trying to reconnect everything. Facebook is not very far removed from the old RSTS accounts on my high school's PDP-11. We even had a login script set up that gave everyone's status ala Twitter, circa the late 80s (via finger or the RSTS equivelent).
Fine. If you'll excuse me, I have to busy myself attaching zippers and pockets directly to my laptops.
I never understand stories like this. I'm a programmer, and I'm reasonably certain that with the aid of a good book and a short amount of time, I could most likely transition to any language that follows the basic rules of logic languages are built upon. If it's got variables, documented syntax, IO, and flow control you are pretty much good to go. Can't they find anyone out there who can read?
I hope you mean never unroll your loops in a compiled language. In scripting, you often can't avoid it.
I used a discarded BUD, a modified "cable over the air" converter, a SSB radio receiver, and Spectrum Lab to listen to and detect the mars pathfinder probe as well as amateur satellites and lots of other fun things in the 2.4ghz area of the spectrum orbiting the planet. GOES image products were a favorite. Careful using it as a transmission antenna for Wi-Fi without knowing what you are doing. an 8 foot dish could probably give you 32dB of gain at 2.4Ghz, enough to make your EIRP from your 25mW router dangerous for a few feet. Much more so if you crank up the output power by unlocking the device or worse using an amplifier, which is illegal without a license (for the reason that it is in fact dangerous and potentially hazardous to other people). Considering the amount of interest in Mars and equipment in place right now there is probably some interesting eavesdropping to be done.
There is nothing "resonant" about a parabolic dish, the diameter determines potential gain and the shape is a function of the focal point. Gain increases as the wavelength becomes shorter in relation to the dish, so most dishes are more effective at Ku than C, which is why smaller Ku dishes provide similar gain figures to the old C band dishes. A common problem is that the mesh of the older BUDs is not tight enough to be reflective at shorter wavelengths, but most were dual-band C/Ku toward the end. Another design constraint is the "illumination" angle of the feed horn, in other words, the amount of the dish the feed can "see". Dish surface outside the illumination angle of the feed is useless, which is why we don't see very shallow dishes with the feedpoint very close.. these would require a feed with a wide illumination angle. The reason you don't go with the largest dish possible, besides space limitations, is that increased gain narrows the beam width of the antenna, which means it must be pointed with more accuracy. A small dish might provide sufficient gain when pointed within 10 degrees of the source, a huge dish might be a fraction of a degree. An 8ft dish used for Ku would be hard to point, but would provide phenomenal gain, probably more than most Ku band LNBs are being designed for these days, and I'd imagine it would overload if you couldn't turn down the gain of the amplifier. If you are providing more signal than your amplifier can handle, you've got either too much antenna or too much amplifier.
Most SUVs are offenders in many categories, but singling them out isn't the answer either. I commute in a Toyota Yaris, but I own a Jeep Wrangler as a "recreation vehicle" and for the winters. The Jeep is lifted and rides on mud tires, but driven conservatively I can get 20mpg in it. One of my neighbors drives a newish Mustang and gets 16 mpg. A friend with a pickup gets the same. The guy down the street with an RX-8 gets about 18. It isn't only SUVs that are consuming large amounts of fuel, and I've never heard anyone make a convincing argument that they "need" a Corvette. At least you can carpool in an SUV.
There used to be quite a few publicly accessible .mil addresses which hosted open ftp servers, irc servers, shell accounts, or had a gopher "site". White Sands in particular had a large file archive. It wasn't at all unusual.. the .mil did build this thing, after all. I think Sandia and MIT had decent file repositories on arpanet as well. I'm pretty sure my logon script used to finger White Sands or one of those for the weather and news.
You've gone from suck to blow.
Personally, I can't imagine a curriculum that doesn't include it. I was mostly baffled by physics until I started writing programs to simulate it.
I still have a VT100 and a 220 in storage. Up until a few years ago they saw use as console terminals on linux boxen. I still sort of miss using pine in green phos. monochrome with loud clicky keys..
Does this sound like a spark gap and a wave guide to anyone else? And why would an aircraft carrier want to disable cars at 15 yards?
20 years ago, the paper would have described them as geniuses and chalked it up to something like "Geeks will be geeks" and a slap on the wrist. Later, they'd have started a successful PC company, and it would become an interesting anecdote in their memoirs.
Actually, to get this right:
There are 31000 calories in a gallon of gasoline, so that's 44 Big Mac's over 55,352 football fields, resulting in 1258 AFF/BM (American Football Fields per Big Mac)
3145 miles works out to 1,246,666 VW Beetles (13.32 feet long) parked end to end.. (conincidentally, 1,300,000 Beetles was the amount produced annually at production peak).
.13 cubic feet (1 cubic foot = 7.4 gallons). The VW beetle glove box was about 1 foot wide by 6 inches high and 6 inches deep, or .25 cubic feet, so fuel consumed was roughly half a VW Beetle glove box.
The fuel (hypothetically) consumed occupied
I was unable to find any useful size information on the Library of Congress beyond total pages.
Oh man.. I haven't had scrapple in forever.. Good stuff with some maple syrup or mixed with scrambled eggs.
Fortunately I grew to like the stuff before I had a clue what it was, otherwise it would have never made it to my mouth.
The original Japanese description actually more accurately translates to:
..and probably something about "Kawaii neko-chan"
"Oh my god, Its full of stars!"
I don't know what gave you the impression I'm not in the US. I'm in Boston..
Should I be flattered or angry?
I don't think digital radio is a very big "surprise" to Europeans. There are over 50 DAB channels in London alone. 30 countries use it IIRC..
Why the US has to be different once again I haven't figured out.
/. is in need of more than just CSS. I would rather an emphasis be placed on usability instead of eye candy. I personally can't stand the menuing on the left hand side. Not only does it feel positively ancient, but it gets in the way of my eye travel across the screen. The way articles are squashed they appear as though they are an afterthought to the ads. I understand ads are necessary, but there is a reason I come to the site.. To read the articles. Finally, that green is just terrible.
It really feels like the rules of this contest were "Change everything, but you aren't allowed to change anything that matters." The winning design, while I'm sure was beyond my abilities and talents, ended up looking just like the old design because of the contraints. It doesn't look new or fresh at all to me.
In college, about 4 or 5 years ago, I went on a vacation to Europe and brought back a Coke from each country (as well as a Dr. Pepper.) In chem we had fun testing them for differences.
The syrup formulations are most definately different between some areas. European Coke tends to use cane sugar instead of High Fructose Corn syrup. Also, different countries tended to use different added sweeteners such as Sucralose or Ace K. The carmel coloring, and it's prortions appears to be different as well. Mineral content was much higher in the European sodas, especially phosphorus. The European sodas were less acidic.
I do remember that in our informal, small-sample "taste test", UK Coke and Dr Pepper were chosen as the "best" 100% of the time, and most people could distinguish the US versions from the others, but all the mainland European Coke's tasted pretty much the same. Of course, we were all Americans, so it's not like it was really scientific.
Personally, when I get over to Britain, I love a Coke and a Snickers.. and I don't drink/consume those items here. I think it's the difference in sugars.