This sounds like an excellent technology to adapt for large cluster interlinks. It'd be nice to have insanely large pipes that go further than a few meters before the bits spill out.
It's mostly historical. The ATM network was put in place when DES was considered an effective encryption algorithm. DES was nice because it could be easily implemented with a handful of logic gates and it was a public algorithm. It was also reasonably secure, when people couldn't buy a few gigaflops at CompUSA. Now the ATM network is just finishing up an end-to-end upgrade to 3-DES and I doubt the world's banks will be in a hurry to obsolete their networks again any time soon. Public key encryption is the right choice, unfortunately it's not the choice that our banking overlords have made.
Ammonia (NH3) and bleach (NaOCl) yields chloramines (NH2Cl) and water. Chloramines, which are a nasty lung irritant by themselves, will in certain pH conditions decompose into (among other things) free chlorine.
In America if you beat his ass he'd sue yours and likely win. Because of the particular nastiness of litigation lawyers and the idiocy of judges it is in your best interest to shoot to kill. I don't mean just shoot him until he stops moving, I mean in the head, one shot.
If you wound him and then finish him off the lawyers get ugly again.
The miniature DIN keyboard connector got it's name from the IBM PS/2 line of PCs where it first appeared in 1987. All other manufacturers referred to the connection as PS/2 simply to indicate that their keyboard was compatible with IBM's (at the time) unique standard.
On a barely related side note, the original PS/2s had keyboard and mouse lines routed to both connectors so it didn't matter which peripheral went where. It wasn't until other manufacturers started cloning the interface that the lines were segregated.
A word is typically considered to be eight characters.
While I have a rather glacial 40 WPM, my good friend from high school can type at a confirmed 115 WPM with better than 99% accuracy. He can go a bit faster than this but his accuracy begins to suffer. He wears out a keyboard in about 18 months. My mother can cruise at well over 100 WPM as well.
You're right though, 130 WPM is a remarkable speed for simple raw transcription. To be able to code at that speed would be truly mind-boggling and I would even dare say worth seeing in person. When I code it's usually periods of thinking and jotting punctuated by short fits of typing. It must be nice to have kryptkpr's savant-like coding skillz, but I'm perfectly happy with having to think before I type.
It's MUCH easier to name the major media organizations that aren't overtly hostile to Rebublicans (real conservative Republicans, not RINOs).
You want examples of a leftward bias in the American media? Watch CNN for an hour and listen not only to what is reported, but how it is reported. Read a New York Times from front to back and see if you can differentiate between the political news and the editorials.
Agreed, If I don't have a seatbelt on while I'm in the car I feel somehow naked. My wife spent 3 months in a hospital because she forgot to wear a seatbelt ONCE and it was that once that her car was involved in a rollover accident. My car doesn't move until everyone is belted.
If stupid people don't want to protect themselves or their kids then they're doing the species a favor.
So, what is the submitter trying to say? Do major companies do a PSA when they know that their earnings are going to take a hit?
The only PSA Sony should be doing is a warning about the dangers of exploding batteries. Perhaps the submitter meant press release when they said PSA. I always thought a revised earnings projection was more appropriate.
I think a more appropriate summary would say that Sony is having difficulty producing enough batteries and is considering the enlistment of other manufacturers to keep up with demand.
Frank: Gentlemen, I propose we send a message to tobacco companies by fining the El Dorado Cigarette Company infinity billion dollars! Congressman: That's the spirit, Frank! But I think a real number might be more effective.
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Agreed on both counts. I hope I don't have to deal with him again in a classroom.
How about a material that has a negative index of refraction?
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It only works for energy with a wavelength of a few meters right now, but weird shit none the less.
http://www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/soukoulis0324.
Clearly this is a move by WalMart to boost its holdings in the waning mercury market.
This sounds like an excellent technology to adapt for large cluster interlinks. It'd be nice to have insanely large pipes that go further than a few meters before the bits spill out.
It's mostly historical. The ATM network was put in place when DES was considered an effective encryption algorithm. DES was nice because it could be easily implemented with a handful of logic gates and it was a public algorithm. It was also reasonably secure, when people couldn't buy a few gigaflops at CompUSA. Now the ATM network is just finishing up an end-to-end upgrade to 3-DES and I doubt the world's banks will be in a hurry to obsolete their networks again any time soon. Public key encryption is the right choice, unfortunately it's not the choice that our banking overlords have made.
I was wondering when we'd have the equipment to smash the world's largest atom!
Ammonia (NH3) and bleach (NaOCl) yields chloramines (NH2Cl) and water. Chloramines, which are a nasty lung irritant by themselves, will in certain pH conditions decompose into (among other things) free chlorine.
Sign in before you speak and someone MIGHT care what you have to say. You have no fear of real reprisal on this site for criticism of President Bush.
It's a shame that anonymous posting is so readily abused by trolls such as yourself, but I guess that's what the C in AC is for.
Please stop feeding the troll. It's painful to watch. :)
In America if you beat his ass he'd sue yours and likely win. Because of the particular nastiness of litigation lawyers and the idiocy of judges it is in your best interest to shoot to kill. I don't mean just shoot him until he stops moving, I mean in the head, one shot.
If you wound him and then finish him off the lawyers get ugly again.
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Please mod this parent up as he's the only one in this "golden masters" conversation that actually knows what the hell he's talking about.
The miniature DIN keyboard connector got it's name from the IBM PS/2 line of PCs where it first appeared in 1987. All other manufacturers referred to the connection as PS/2 simply to indicate that their keyboard was compatible with IBM's (at the time) unique standard.
On a barely related side note, the original PS/2s had keyboard and mouse lines routed to both connectors so it didn't matter which peripheral went where. It wasn't until other manufacturers started cloning the interface that the lines were segregated.
As soon as it crosses 49 degrees latitude and comes within reach of the bloodthisrty litigation lawyers in the good old U.S.A.
A word is typically considered to be eight characters.
While I have a rather glacial 40 WPM, my good friend from high school can type at a confirmed 115 WPM with better than 99% accuracy. He can go a bit faster than this but his accuracy begins to suffer. He wears out a keyboard in about 18 months. My mother can cruise at well over 100 WPM as well.
You're right though, 130 WPM is a remarkable speed for simple raw transcription. To be able to code at that speed would be truly mind-boggling and I would even dare say worth seeing in person. When I code it's usually periods of thinking and jotting punctuated by short fits of typing. It must be nice to have kryptkpr's savant-like coding skillz, but I'm perfectly happy with having to think before I type.
Did anyone else notice that the model numbers are primes?
Comment noted for future sig...
Mmmmmm genlocking. Was it the Kitchen Sync by any chance? Maybe it's time to dust off the old Toaster 4000...
It's MUCH easier to name the major media organizations that aren't overtly hostile to Rebublicans (real conservative Republicans, not RINOs).
You want examples of a leftward bias in the American media? Watch CNN for an hour and listen not only to what is reported, but how it is reported. Read a New York Times from front to back and see if you can differentiate between the political news and the editorials.
Mod parent up, but more importantly mod grandparent down. I wonder if the hospital he's staying at knows that he has internet access?
Agreed, If I don't have a seatbelt on while I'm in the car I feel somehow naked. My wife spent 3 months in a hospital because she forgot to wear a seatbelt ONCE and it was that once that her car was involved in a rollover accident. My car doesn't move until everyone is belted.
If stupid people don't want to protect themselves or their kids then they're doing the species a favor.
So, what is the submitter trying to say? Do major companies do a PSA when they know that their earnings are going to take a hit?
The only PSA Sony should be doing is a warning about the dangers of exploding batteries. Perhaps the submitter meant press release when they said PSA. I always thought a revised earnings projection was more appropriate.
I think a more appropriate summary would say that Sony is having difficulty producing enough batteries and is considering the enlistment of other manufacturers to keep up with demand.
You left the 'n' out of "defines".
Frank: Gentlemen, I propose we send a message to tobacco companies by fining the El Dorado Cigarette Company infinity billion dollars!
Congressman: That's the spirit, Frank! But I think a real number might be more effective.
Thanks for posting that fantastic short story. The forward vision of the author is impressive.