One of the upgrades the Voyagers had over the Viking computers was CMOS memory (instead of plated wires). Read all about it at http://history.nasa.gov/computers/contents.html
Apparently, there was some debate at the time over whether these new-fangled memories would be reliable.
I see some laptops are now described as "HD" and "HD+". No---they're not the resolution you're thinking of/hoping for. (That would be FHD, which is still not tall enough in my opinion.)
That word has been Englished. You've got to love type-loose languages: there are so many opportunities for verbing nouns. You should try it---I think you will have an empower.
There is a good reason. [Puts on business hat.] When you sell around your distributor (i.e., if Intel were to sell directly to NewEgg) then you really annoy your distributor. When this happens, you get in the situation where your distributor's salespeople are telling the retailers, "You know, we really recommend [say] AMD, and can offer you a lower commission". Now, Intel is almost a monopoly, so they could get away with this, but they know they won't always be. They still have a competitor, and while AMD is still around, Intel can't afford to lose its distribution sales force.
Or shut down the ssh port altogether. Simply open up the telnet port if you need CL access. B-)
This is not quite as silly as it seems. It's fairly easy to make "advent"-like scripts on the other side of telnet to access a real ssh port. E.g, "KILL TROLL WITH DAGGER" to start the ssh daemon with access from that IP address.
Depends on the drive. In recent electrical signalling (Gb ethernet, SATA/SAS, etc.) the 8b10b encoding scheme has been very popular; and is 10 bits to a byte. The extra bits are for recovering the clock signal. The HDD has to do the same, but the manufacturers don't have to adhere to any standards inside their case.
Now, if you're asking the question "how many bytes in a MB?" there is great debate. (The answer is, and has been from the first RAMAC*, 1,000,000. However, the binary bus people like to argue otherwise; and Microsoft Windows is one of the protagonists.)
* Okay, so technically the RAMAC was 5,000,000 words, where a word was 7 bits.
That assumes that floats are more energy efficient than doubles. Not necessarily true on architectures that have hardware floating point and save energy by omitting the float portion. They convert the float to double, do the math, then convert back. Check your architecture!
On my Intel Core 2, the execution speed is different by about 0.06% between float and double (edge to double). Can't speak to power consumption though. On my Intel Atom 230, the floats are faster by 0.4%. That's almost certainly saving power, but not a lot.
You can get a little ways by playing with UPnP, but it's still a horrible system. I took a quick look at the firmware in the EX811, but it would be cheaper to get a netbook and detach the screen than try to hack this picture frame. B-(
"Desire for half-decent non-AT&T smartphone is less saturated than desire for AT&T iPhone by those who haven't already got one."
I think this finding is more related to that fact that the only half-decent smartphone is currently limited to iPhone on AT&T.
(Sorry Blackberry/Palm/HTC---no lightsaber app means that you're less than half decent B-)
Go with the decent version of QuickBooks 97 (i.e., before they went very evil). It works under the latest versions of Wine. Except for printing. (Grr.) Okay... printing might be important!
So you think that perhaps a depressed Centurian teleported from Galactica after a black light on a black (and very grubby) console lit up in black with the message against a black background that you'd just pressed it.
Or are you implying that Sam was spending a year dead for "tax reasons"?
Man, I'd like to have been 300 feet below that concert in a reinforced concrete bunker!
Well, that'll show those Andromedans not to attack "smaller" galaxies. Now who's laughing! We will plunder their mass (while watching colateral ejected mass fly out).
I have a red and green LED traffic light as part of my Christmas lighting this year. They were rejects from the city's installations.
Reason for rejection? Each 'LED failure' was due to a dry solder joint on the LED board. Even when one light completely (completely!) filled with rainwater, the electronics was fine, and just a few of the LED solder joints had gone spongy and had to be re-flowed.
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One of the upgrades the Voyagers had over the Viking computers was CMOS memory (instead of plated wires). Read all about it at http://history.nasa.gov/computers/contents.html Apparently, there was some debate at the time over whether these new-fangled memories would be reliable.
I see some laptops are now described as "HD" and "HD+". No---they're not the resolution you're thinking of/hoping for. (That would be FHD, which is still not tall enough in my opinion.)
That word has been Englished. You've got to love type-loose languages: there are so many opportunities for verbing nouns. You should try it---I think you will have an empower.
Mulder & Scully found them. They were behind a secret door in an abandoned warehouse. Pfft—what was the goverment thinking.
There is a good reason. [Puts on business hat.] When you sell around your distributor (i.e., if Intel were to sell directly to NewEgg) then you really annoy your distributor. When this happens, you get in the situation where your distributor's salespeople are telling the retailers, "You know, we really recommend [say] AMD, and can offer you a lower commission". Now, Intel is almost a monopoly, so they could get away with this, but they know they won't always be. They still have a competitor, and while AMD is still around, Intel can't afford to lose its distribution sales force.
Or shut down the ssh port altogether. Simply open up the telnet port if you need CL access. B-)
This is not quite as silly as it seems. It's fairly easy to make "advent"-like scripts on the other side of telnet to access a real ssh port. E.g, "KILL TROLL WITH DAGGER" to start the ssh daemon with access from that IP address.
* He wants to send the disk in to outer space and give the aliens a fighting chance of reconstructing his DNA from the contents.
Depends on the drive. In recent electrical signalling (Gb ethernet, SATA/SAS, etc.) the 8b10b encoding scheme has been very popular; and is 10 bits to a byte. The extra bits are for recovering the clock signal. The HDD has to do the same, but the manufacturers don't have to adhere to any standards inside their case.
Now, if you're asking the question "how many bytes in a MB?" there is great debate. (The answer is, and has been from the first RAMAC*, 1,000,000. However, the binary bus people like to argue otherwise; and Microsoft Windows is one of the protagonists.)
* Okay, so technically the RAMAC was 5,000,000 words, where a word was 7 bits.
Use floats where doubles aren't necessary
That assumes that floats are more energy efficient than doubles. Not necessarily true on architectures that have hardware floating point and save energy by omitting the float portion. They convert the float to double, do the math, then convert back. Check your architecture!
On my Intel Core 2, the execution speed is different by about 0.06% between float and double (edge to double). Can't speak to power consumption though. On my Intel Atom 230, the floats are faster by 0.4%. That's almost certainly saving power, but not a lot.
Are you crazy? Dihydrogen monoxide kills over 4000 people a year in the US alone!
Or waterslides! You can't climb back up those.
You can get a little ways by playing with UPnP, but it's still a horrible system. I took a quick look at the firmware in the EX811, but it would be cheaper to get a netbook and detach the screen than try to hack this picture frame. B-(
"I feel a great disturbance in the Jobs, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly cut off."
Good finds!
"Desire for half-decent non-AT&T smartphone is less saturated than desire for AT&T iPhone by those who haven't already got one."
I think this finding is more related to that fact that the only half-decent smartphone is currently limited to iPhone on AT&T. (Sorry Blackberry/Palm/HTC---no lightsaber app means that you're less than half decent B-)
Go with the decent version of QuickBooks 97 (i.e., before they went very evil). It works under the latest versions of Wine. Except for printing. (Grr.) Okay... printing might be important!
To do it mostly properly you need to "bounce" at SMTP time. (Actually, you are refusing to accept the spam.)
So, in simple terms: set up your own email server, install an SMTP spam filter and give that delete button a rest.
In Debian, for example, apt-get install exim4 sa-exim spamassassin.
So you think that perhaps a depressed Centurian teleported from Galactica after a black light on a black (and very grubby) console lit up in black with the message against a black background that you'd just pressed it. Or are you implying that Sam was spending a year dead for "tax reasons"? Man, I'd like to have been 300 feet below that concert in a reinforced concrete bunker!
They probably came down because of those nice, decent folks at iTunes or Amazon downloads. You know: the ones with lawyers.
But don't use Thunderbird (it's a security risk). Outlook is much safer.
Or the Year Of Linux Under The Desktop.
... $20M stealth bullets that have the radar signature of a mosquito. Yay!
I rather suspect that various manufacturers send him a bright sparkling new machine every 6 months or so. There are some perks to notoriety....
That explains why black cars get dirtier faster than lighter colored ones.
Well, that'll show those Andromedans not to attack "smaller" galaxies. Now who's laughing! We will plunder their mass (while watching colateral ejected mass fly out).
I have a red and green LED traffic light as part of my Christmas lighting this year. They were rejects from the city's installations.
Reason for rejection? Each 'LED failure' was due to a dry solder joint on the LED board. Even when one light completely (completely!) filled with rainwater, the electronics was fine, and just a few of the LED solder joints had gone spongy and had to be re-flowed.