Speaking of which, I was re-waching my vhs tape of "Metropolis" (silent film made in 1927 about the future) and was amazed to spot a metric clock on the wall! (just did a search and found a shot of it.
Not necessarily - a raid 1 (mirror) disk is much more reliable than a single disk, and it's exactly double the components - you're spreading the risk. By having two independant robot arms, each one is as likely to fail as having just one, but you still have a working arm. What you're talking about is double the complexity in a single system - I'm talking about fault tolerant redundancy.
Actually the whole point of my suggestion is just to have a more flexible platform for the ground team to work up solutions with, whatever form it might take. They seem to be pretty good at it, often going beyond the design limitations. Think of what they can accomplish with designed in freedom to reconfigure the mission while it's in progress??
maybe extraterrestrial robots should go with a vast assortment of tools and materials - you never know what you'll run into untill you get there and the ground teams seem quit adept adept at coming up with solutions - provided they have the tools and materials, like a general purpose arm (make that TWO arms, in case one breaks the other can fix it) and a storage locker full of duc[t,k] tape.
I think that was really the problem - too many companies, and employees too, were overextending their skills and capabilities - their mouths were writing checks their brains couldn't cash. The place I worked in the early half of the 90's would actually sell a product to a customer (after verifying their credit and ability to pay) THEN go back and tell the engineers what to design and build AND deliver it in 3 days! But they had to because that's what the competition appeard to be doing.
I remember those days - sure it was a time of great promise and flowing capital but the products royally sucked - most didn't live up to the hype and the futurama aura and many a flawed device pissed off customers with the poor service after the sale. Lately, I've been buying a lot of stuff and have had a great success rate, I've been real happy with stuff recently.
I'm suprised to find (just checked) that my former boss, in a small business I sysadmin'd at, still has the same email password - 1.5 years after me being laid off. Even thou I remember the pswd it remains confidential, w/ no reason for abuse (the drop off in business wasn't his fault, and they treated me pretty good during the good times).
Just wish someone there had the sense to take care of such things!
A local fm station is b'casting hdfadio - I can see the digital sidebands in a spectrum analyzer but 1) the cheapest radio I could find for it are high end gear and 2) the encoding format is closed source so I can't hack together a receiver. So, yeah, that's two strikes against it right off. That'll boost ratings, make it more expensive and difficult to listen to crappy content. I sometimes listen to DRM b'casts on shortwave (Radio Canada, BBC, Sweden, Germany) because I can get a free decoder, DReaM - it sounds great (when propagation is good) and wish there were more of that.
Have you looked at their "certificates of authenticity"? They look amazingly like some kind of currenty with the anti-counterfeiting devices, holograms, engraving, etc. Heck, if it weren't for the treasury, we could use Win3.1 licenses for currency. "I'll sell you this basket of tomatoes for, um, 2 Win95 5 dos3". "Fie! They're not worth more than 5 Win3!"
according to the jargon file: Used to refer to the Unix operating system in writing, but avoiding the need for the ugly (TM) typography (see also (TM)). Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems. Ironically, lawyers now say that the requirement for the trademark postfix has no legal force, but the asterisk usage is entrenched anyhow. It has been suggested that there may be a psychological connection to practice in certain religions (especially Judaism) in which the name of the deity is never written out in full, e.g., 'YHWH' or 'G--d' is used.
The above review of the book review was, altho short and concise, informative and to the point. Altho the conspiracy theory nature of the final remark went perhaps a little too far, considering the off-the-cuff source and likelyhood of going for 'first-post' status, it is worth at least an 'interesting' moderation.
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Speaking of which, I was re-waching my vhs tape of "Metropolis" (silent film made in 1927 about the future) and was amazed to spot a metric clock on the wall! (just did a search and found a shot of it.
Not necessarily - a raid 1 (mirror) disk is much more reliable than a single disk, and it's exactly double the components - you're spreading the risk. By having two independant robot arms, each one is as likely to fail as having just one, but you still have a working arm. What you're talking about is double the complexity in a single system - I'm talking about fault tolerant redundancy.
Actually the whole point of my suggestion is just to have a more flexible platform for the ground team to work up solutions with, whatever form it might take. They seem to be pretty good at it, often going beyond the design limitations. Think of what they can accomplish with designed in freedom to reconfigure the mission while it's in progress??
maybe extraterrestrial robots should go with a vast assortment of tools and materials - you never know what you'll run into untill you get there and the ground teams seem quit adept adept at coming up with solutions - provided they have the tools and materials, like a general purpose arm (make that TWO arms, in case one breaks the other can fix it) and a storage locker full of duc[t,k] tape.
maybe the libs will start buying supplies from here.
so that explains why I wear a brain condom while watching tv / listening to radio / etc /
My baby is dieing and the DNS is screwed up again..
they should have it so you just use 911.911.911.911 and get an emergency server.
I think that was really the problem - too many companies, and employees too, were overextending their skills and capabilities - their mouths were writing checks their brains couldn't cash. The place I worked in the early half of the 90's would actually sell a product to a customer (after verifying their credit and ability to pay) THEN go back and tell the engineers what to design and build AND deliver it in 3 days! But they had to because that's what the competition appeard to be doing.
I remember those days - sure it was a time of great promise and flowing capital but the products royally sucked - most didn't live up to the hype and the futurama aura and many a flawed device pissed off customers with the poor service after the sale. Lately, I've been buying a lot of stuff and have had a great success rate, I've been real happy with stuff recently.
because billg lives there. What bill wants, bill gets.
I'm suprised to find (just checked) that my former boss, in a small business I sysadmin'd at, still has the same email password - 1.5 years after me being laid off. Even thou I remember the pswd it remains confidential, w/ no reason for abuse (the drop off in business wasn't his fault, and they treated me pretty good during the good times).
Just wish someone there had the sense to take care of such things!
are pouring hundreds of millions of pounds into defining the way we will watch television in the next decade.
What about the writers, directors, actors and the audience? Don't they get any input in the electronic theatre?
Here's the movie poster, if anybody missed it the first itme.
The ability to destroy a business is insignificant next to the power of the Source.
Chief - as in Cio, cTo, ceO, Cfe, cGo*, etc.
*Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
BTW, will it be free? If not, I'd say, brillant strategy.
just charge it against the TCO of Windows.
because, if you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance then blind 'em with bull$#!+.
Toss in 'backed by Microsoft' for the /. evil trinity bonus outrage points.
it will take more than upgrading to HD radio
A local fm station is b'casting hdfadio - I can see the digital sidebands in a spectrum analyzer but 1) the cheapest radio I could find for it are high end gear and 2) the encoding format is closed source so I can't hack together a receiver. So, yeah, that's two strikes against it right off. That'll boost ratings, make it more expensive and difficult to listen to crappy content. I sometimes listen to DRM b'casts on shortwave (Radio Canada, BBC, Sweden, Germany) because I can get a free decoder, DReaM - it sounds great (when propagation is good) and wish there were more of that.
Just buy the product, and leave the thinking to us!
I think I'll just rummage thru your wallet and see what I've got here...
because they have a seriously long position in M$ft?
and just get a license to print money.
Have you looked at their "certificates of authenticity"? They look amazingly like some kind of currenty with the anti-counterfeiting devices, holograms, engraving, etc. Heck, if it weren't for the treasury, we could use Win3.1 licenses for currency. "I'll sell you this basket of tomatoes for, um, 2 Win95 5 dos3". "Fie! They're not worth more than 5 Win3!"
Current exchange rate:
2003 = $100
XP = $50
2K = $20
NT4 = $10
NT35 = $5
ME = $1
WIN98 = 50 cents
WIN95 = quarter
WIN3 = dime
DOS6 = nickle
DOS3 = penny
The yet to be released 'grand' Longhorn = $1000, and with 'inflation' the values halves about every 3 years.
according to the jargon file: Used to refer to the Unix operating system in writing, but avoiding the need for the ugly (TM) typography (see also (TM)). Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems. Ironically, lawyers now say that the requirement for the trademark postfix has no legal force, but the asterisk usage is entrenched anyhow. It has been suggested that there may be a psychological connection to practice in certain religions (especially Judaism) in which the name of the deity is never written out in full, e.g., 'YHWH' or 'G--d' is used.
so there's still a chance that 'Sneakers' might come true?
The above review of the book review was, altho short and concise, informative and to the point. Altho the conspiracy theory nature of the final remark went perhaps a little too far, considering the off-the-cuff source and likelyhood of going for 'first-post' status, it is worth at least an 'interesting' moderation.
So, don't buy their products. Or are they another messy, politically granted monopoly?