There used to be software that did this for translating x86 software to run on Alpha's. It's not new. The interesting thing about the Alpha product was that it would actually optimize the executable over time to run on the RISC processor. In other words, the first time you would run it, it would run very slowly. But over time as executable was repeatedly anaalyzed it's performance would improve.
Using that logic, then the government shouldn't buy software either. Buying software from one company inherently undermines the ability of another company to do business. The way you buy into open source is you support it.
I used to work for these guys. They're totally serious. I worked for them as they were starting to incorporate. OSSS is a technology transfer company that was made to license and sell the technology that was developed at the Center for Aerospace Technology at Weber State University. So far there have been four launches that they've been closely associated with. The first was NuSAT, the Second was WeberSat, then they built the spaceframe for Phase 3D that's finally up, and the latest has been JAWSat. There's a couple other projects that they have built components for or performed testing on that I'm not certain whether they flew or not.
That's not the story that WaSP sticks to:
"Executive Summary: IE5/Mac is the best browser ever released on any platform. But key pieces of the standards puzzle are still missing."
Wasp on IE5/Mac - reference where I got the quote above. WaSP on Gecko - talks about how much better the world will be once we have a standards-compliant web browser. An open letter to Netscape - Slams Netscape for taking so long to come out with 6.
WaSP is not necessarily Netscape's biggest supporter.
What's the track record on monopoly remedies being reversed on appeal?
I dunno about the entire historical record, but as far as MS is concerned, this isn't the first time that Judge Jackson has ruled against them. The last time Judge Jackson ruled against them, and it was sent to the appellate courts, the appeals court ruled in favor of MS.
If Nader were elected into office it really wouldn't change much. The president is constitutionally responsible for enforcing the laws, not creating them.
The president is the executive branch of the government. The executive branch is responsible for enforcing the laws. This means that the president is ultimately in charge of the AG's office. The president could order the AG to drop the case.
A search engine one uses to find MP3's? Isn't that AltaVista? One could argue that this service is as useful to artists trying to prosecute people who are illegally trading their MP3's, as it is to people who are trying to download MP3's.
If a city was to go out of it's way to attract me, it should:
Work with industry to ensure that there will be attractive high-paying technology jobs.
Ensure that access to high speed digital networks is inexpensive.
Provide safe, inexpensive mass transit services.
Work to ensure that there is affordable housing available.
Those are the basics. Aside from that there should be affordable forms of entertainment located close to housing/industry, or there should be transportation available.
The ways to do this would be to form trade organizations that regularly meet with city leadership. Subsidize the installation of high-speed digital networks (ATM would be good) for the city, and ensure that the telephone regulations keep the subscription rates down. Give me buses, give me trains, I don't care what you give me so long as I'm not stuck in my car for the hour long commute.
Out here in Utah there is a trade organization that is very active in lobbying to get what they want/need. USWest (our local phone company) is still pretty heavily regulated which has allowed some competition in, bringing down the prices and allowing us more affordable services. There's a park and ride a few blocks away from me, so I can take the express bus into Salt Lake instead of having to drive the hour-long commute each day.
Having recently graduated college, I have a seemingly endless supply of Ramen Noodles in the event that the apocalypse should occur tomorrow night. All I need now is some bottled water and propane for the camp stove and I'll be good-to-go.
The specifications are for a system to process 1 million samples per second. This isn't clear at all.
Do you have to acquire and process 1 millions samples per second? If so, how are you acquiring the samples?
Or are the samples already stored on a device and they just need to be processed. If this is the case, is the storage device local or does the data have to be accessed over a network?
In either case, how do you expect to store the processed data? Is the system just meant for realtime viewing of the data, or do you have storage requirements like in a database either local or on a server?
Furthermore, without knowing what kind of processing requirements you have, how do you know that Intel is the right architecture for you? Alpha's or PPC's cost a little bit more, but you might get better performance from those systems for what you're trying to accomplish. Also, depending on your processing needs, clustering might be a much more affordable way to process your data.
I used to work on a project where we had to process data for the gov. The bottleneck wasn't in processing the data, it was in getting the database to store the data fast enough.
The U.S. currently has two Anti-Ballistic missile weapon systems in development. NMD - National Missile Defense is a kinetic energy weapon that after launch finds the warhead as it streaks through the uper atmosphere and destroys it by impacting against it. There was a successful test launch of this weapon system about a month ago. There are pictures of the target Minuteman launching from Vandenburg that the interceptor destroyed. ABL - Anti-Ballistic Missile Laser. This weapon flies on a 747 Cargo plane. It's a chemical laser and has approximately 30 shots depending on the range of the target and the atmospheric conditions between the plane and the target. It is a laser that will melt the skin off the missile and cause it to detonate. This weapon is only effective against theatre ballistic missiles. According to treaty each nation is allowed one site as an anti-ICBM site. The USSR chose Moscow, and has fielded a weapon there for years, and the US chose South Dakota I believe. The US has never fielded a functioning ICBM defense weapon. As I understand it, the Russian's anti-ballistic missile defense technology relies on detonating nuclear weapons in the upper atmosphere. The resulting shockwave will force the payload vehicles away from their targets.
The launch that takes OPAL up is the same launch taking ASUSAT up. There are three other birds going up at the same time too. JAWSAT - from Weber State University in Ogden UT has experiments from their school, Marshall Space Flight Center, and some Ham radio stuff too. This is the bus for the entire launch. Bolted to it are all the other satellites. (This is out of order, Falconsat is the last to leave I believe.) Once in orbit, Falconsat a satellite from the Air Force Academy will pop off the top of the stack. ASUSAT, OPAL, and OCS (Optical Calibration Sphere from the Air Force Research Labs) will all pop off the sides. Then JAWSAT will leave the launch vehicle last and float around up there for approx 40 years. The launch vehicle is a Minuteman II ballistic missile with a Pegasus fourth stage. It's nicknamed the Minotaur. WSU's Center for Aerospace Technology
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It's a shame that without 'profit-minded patent shite' there's no incentive for companies to develop the drugs in the first place.
There used to be software that did this for translating x86 software to run on Alpha's. It's not new. The interesting thing about the Alpha product was that it would actually optimize the executable over time to run on the RISC processor. In other words, the first time you would run it, it would run very slowly. But over time as executable was repeatedly anaalyzed it's performance would improve.
Can someone please explain to me why Katz has a problem with Microsoft showing their employees motivational videos?
I miss fair use ...
Using that logic, then the government shouldn't buy software either. Buying software from one company inherently undermines the ability of another company to do business. The way you buy into open source is you support it.
I used to work for these guys. They're totally serious. I worked for them as they were starting to incorporate. OSSS is a technology transfer company that was made to license and sell the technology that was developed at the Center for Aerospace Technology at Weber State University. So far there have been four launches that they've been closely associated with. The first was NuSAT, the Second was WeberSat, then they built the spaceframe for Phase 3D that's finally up, and the latest has been JAWSat. There's a couple other projects that they have built components for or performed testing on that I'm not certain whether they flew or not.
"Executive Summary: IE5/Mac is the best browser ever released on any platform. But key pieces of the standards puzzle are still missing."
Wasp on IE5/Mac - reference where I got the quote above.
WaSP on Gecko - talks about how much better the world will be once we have a standards-compliant web browser.
An open letter to Netscape - Slams Netscape for taking so long to come out with 6.
WaSP is not necessarily Netscape's biggest supporter.
What's the track record on monopoly remedies being reversed on appeal?
I dunno about the entire historical record, but as far as MS is concerned, this isn't the first time that Judge Jackson has ruled against them. The last time Judge Jackson ruled against them, and it was sent to the appellate courts, the appeals court ruled in favor of MS.
If Nader were elected into office it really wouldn't change much. The president is constitutionally responsible for enforcing the laws, not creating them.
The president is the executive branch of the government. The executive branch is responsible for enforcing the laws. This means that the president is ultimately in charge of the AG's office. The president could order the AG to drop the case.
A search engine one uses to find MP3's? Isn't that AltaVista?
One could argue that this service is as useful to artists trying to prosecute people who are illegally trading their MP3's, as it is to people who are trying to download MP3's.
Boy Plankton
Still waiting to see if JAWSAT or ASUSAT are going to be turned on.
Work with industry to ensure that there will be attractive high-paying technology jobs.
Ensure that access to high speed digital networks is inexpensive.
Provide safe, inexpensive mass transit services.
Work to ensure that there is affordable housing available.
Those are the basics. Aside from that there should be affordable forms of entertainment located close to housing/industry, or there should be transportation available.
The ways to do this would be to form trade organizations that regularly meet with city leadership. Subsidize the installation of high-speed digital networks (ATM would be good) for the city, and ensure that the telephone regulations keep the subscription rates down. Give me buses, give me trains, I don't care what you give me so long as I'm not stuck in my car for the hour long commute.
Out here in Utah there is a trade organization that is very active in lobbying to get what they want/need. USWest (our local phone company) is still pretty heavily regulated which has allowed some competition in, bringing down the prices and allowing us more affordable services. There's a park and ride a few blocks away from me, so I can take the express bus into Salt Lake instead of having to drive the hour-long commute each day.
Boy Plankton
Boy Plankton
Do you have to acquire and process 1 millions samples per second? If so, how are you acquiring the samples?
Or are the samples already stored on a device and they just need to be processed. If this is the case, is the storage device local or does the data have to be accessed over a network?
In either case, how do you expect to store the processed data? Is the system just meant for realtime viewing of the data, or do you have storage requirements like in a database either local or on a server?
Furthermore, without knowing what kind of processing requirements you have, how do you know that Intel is the right architecture for you? Alpha's or PPC's cost a little bit more, but you might get better performance from those systems for what you're trying to accomplish. Also, depending on your processing needs, clustering might be a much more affordable way to process your data.
I used to work on a project where we had to process data for the gov. The bottleneck wasn't in processing the data, it was in getting the database to store the data fast enough.
The U.S. currently has two Anti-Ballistic missile weapon systems in development. NMD - National Missile Defense is a kinetic energy weapon that after launch finds the warhead as it streaks through the uper atmosphere and destroys it by impacting against it. There was a successful test launch of this weapon system about a month ago. There are pictures of the target Minuteman launching from Vandenburg that the interceptor destroyed. ABL - Anti-Ballistic Missile Laser. This weapon flies on a 747 Cargo plane. It's a chemical laser and has approximately 30 shots depending on the range of the target and the atmospheric conditions between the plane and the target. It is a laser that will melt the skin off the missile and cause it to detonate. This weapon is only effective against theatre ballistic missiles. According to treaty each nation is allowed one site as an anti-ICBM site. The USSR chose Moscow, and has fielded a weapon there for years, and the US chose South Dakota I believe. The US has never fielded a functioning ICBM defense weapon. As I understand it, the Russian's anti-ballistic missile defense technology relies on detonating nuclear weapons in the upper atmosphere. The resulting shockwave will force the payload vehicles away from their targets.
The launch that takes OPAL up is the same launch taking ASUSAT up. There are three other birds going up at the same time too. JAWSAT - from Weber State University in Ogden UT has experiments from their school, Marshall Space Flight Center, and some Ham radio stuff too. This is the bus for the entire launch. Bolted to it are all the other satellites. (This is out of order, Falconsat is the last to leave I believe.) Once in orbit, Falconsat a satellite from the Air Force Academy will pop off the top of the stack. ASUSAT, OPAL, and OCS (Optical Calibration Sphere from the Air Force Research Labs) will all pop off the sides. Then JAWSAT will leave the launch vehicle last and float around up there for approx 40 years. The launch vehicle is a Minuteman II ballistic missile with a Pegasus fourth stage. It's nicknamed the Minotaur. WSU's Center for Aerospace Technology