Comment Re:Oops! (Score 1) 187
It's just a glitch in the Matrix.
It's just a glitch in the Matrix.
You can still compile and run FORTRAN programs--in fact, if you run Linux, you might have a FORTRAN compiler installed and not know it (I'm in Windows, so I can't see if I do right now).
Hmm.....let's see:
[rgenter@at41 rgenter]$ f77 --version
GNU Fortran (GCC 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Fortran comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Fortran
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING
or type the command `info -f g77 Copying'.
[rgenter@at41 rgenter]$
Yup. FORTRAN, check.
I did. I make less money, 75K as opposed to 120K, but I get more time to enjoy my life.
after 25 years, I was real tired of pointless 60 hour weeks and day long meetings.
You really don't understand people. I pity someone that places all value someone could possible have on their salary.
we don't make enough software we.......?
It isn't a matter of making enough software. Nobody is suggesting that the government code up five different word processing packages and sell them to the highest bidder. It's about knowing that the software running our essential government functions is reliable.
At the end of the day software is just yet another export product
No it isn't. It's a tool that lets people get their jobs done.
the country doesn't literally die if it fails, you'll just have to live with it being slightly less prioritized.
Depends on what fails.
If the word processor on some senator's desktop dies, I doubt if anyone is terribly inconvenienced.
If something big and important breaks at the IRS, it may very well be a very big problem.
Software used for essential functions of the federal government probably shouldn't be off-the-shelf. It probably should be somehow verified or authenticated. It might be a very good idea to bring the development of that software in-house, rather than to outsource it. Because if that software fails badly enough, it can render those essential functions essentially disabled.
Why bother flying a plane into a building if you can do as much, if not more, by simply breaking a bit of software?
You don't *want* to blow the satellite to bits because then you have a million little destructive satellites to track instead of one big one. The 2008 situation was a special case: the satellite was already falling back to earth, so all the little bits would burn up in the atmosphere.
Galaxy 15 was in geostationary orbit and is still at roughly that distance. The space shuttle can't reach geostationary orbit; it's too far away and the shuttle isn't built for it. When the shuttle deployed similar satellites, it released them in much lower orbits and they used a combination of small fuel burns and several months of waiting to reach the much higher geostationary orbits.
You're right; I'd forgotten (it's been a few lifetimes). From dmesg:
[some stuff snipped...]
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 448.980 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 894.56 BogoMIPS
Memory: 253148k/262144k available (1340k kernel code, 6548k reserved, 999k data,
128k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[more stuff snipped]
I think it replaced my previous system, which was a 200MHz Pentium Pro, and that's where I got the old MHz from...no wonder this system seems so fast
In a case where a garage door vendor sued a customer for using a different opener than the one delivered by the door vendor, the vendor claimed patents (memory may fail me here, what other kind of IP could it be?) on the specific codes to activate the mechanism. The judge found that one had to assume the customer had bought the permission to use the patent when he bought the door.
That is fair enough. But, what happens when the patent holder isn't the same entity as the one that sold you the product?
What if the patent wasn't available to be read (ie. unknown, and still sitting in the 2 year processing cycle at the patent office)?
Now, both they guy that sold you the device and you are infringing the patent. The patent holder has legal recourse (which is the purpose behind the whole patent system) to stop all parties from infringing on their patented process.
Note: this only applies to process patents that describe a method that just happens to be implemented by a device. Likewise, it probably doesn't apply to a patent for direct physical attributes of the device itself. ie. what the device does versus what the device is.
Why should behavioral decisions become protected with special legislation?
I am sorry but those "academics" allowed themselves to become political and the consequences are they now get treated like politicians.
No matter if you think the climate change theories have merit or if you are a "denier" you must admit there has been a great deal of poor scientific practices and fraud where climate change research has been concerned. Its provable that lots of data is coming from stations to close to man made radiators by standards set and then ignored by the same researchers. Some of the climate-gate allegations were true; even though most of the worst were not; and the hockey stick theory was shown to be total bunk and the people who put it forward knew it.
The scientists and academics allowed themselves to become political; and now the existing body politic no longer sees them as off limits and will subject them to their rules. Welcome to the dark ages 2.0 regardless of who brought it on.
I have a 14-year-old Dell tower with a 200 MHz Pentium III, 256 MB of RAM and a 100GB HD (that I added much later, obviously). I use it as my home CVS, web and database server. Running Linux, of course.
I don't think Lost would be possible to follow at all without the Lostpedia.
I don't think that's true at all. You could follow Lost perfectly well simply by watching it and paying attention.
Of course you get more from it by seeing what other people noticed - just like anything else with any depth at all.
Variables don't; constants aren't.