Comment Re:Coral Cache .... (Score 1) 228
Until the Coral Cache caches the "We've been slashdotted" page.
Until the Coral Cache caches the "We've been slashdotted" page.
It was a re-do of the Mars Polar Lander. (Failed due to an un-debounced landing sensor switch).
Phoenix rose from the ashes of MPL.
For reference, the mast cams on MER (the one on the left) are at eye-level for a person 5'8"-5'10" ish tall.
I don't use noscript, but have been noticing lots of disabled copying on more and more websites.
The simple fix I use is to Ctrl-U/View source and copy from that window.
You haven't bought a car in California recently?
There are Prop 65 stickers on car windows already. "This car contains and is manufactured with stuff that gives you cancer."
I bought a car a month ago and that sticker didn't even make it off the lot before I took it off. One on the driver's side and one on the passenger side.
You'd have to have a hell of a lot of built-up voltage to jump through the plastic casing, through the air gap to the non-grounded metal on the PC board, and then from there across the air gap to the USB grounding shield.
It's not the direct zap from your finger, it's the induced charge.
You're negatively charged, and hold one end of the USB stick. The EM field you are generating pushes all the positive charge to the other end of the stick. Usually the USB plug.
Your stick approaches the USB port, which is neutral and/or grounded and the positive end of the USB stick discharges through whatever you plugged it into.
It is even worse with grounded materials. Bring a positive charge near something grounded, and all the positive charges run away into the ground. Unground the device when the positive charged object is still around and now your device is net negatively charged. Plug that device into something and *zap*, ESD.
Since Perl is pretty loosely typed, Once it overflows its int type, it'll become a float type, then it'll just keep growing till it hits infinity.
Or until, in float, you run out of precision in the mantissa so that you can't fit 1 and the number in the same range. The proverbial 3000000000000000 + 1 = 3000000000000000.
For IEEE754 32 bit float, that's about 24 bits worth of float, so about 16,777,216 is the biggest for single precision float.
#include <stdio.h> int main(void) { int i; float j = 16777210; for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) { printf("%f\n", j); j = j + 1; } return 0; }
16777210.000000
16777211.000000
16777212.000000
16777213.000000
16777214.000000
16777215.000000
16777216.000000
16777216.000000
16777216.000000
16777216.000000
Note the saturation at 216.
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While OQO has certainly had its share of ups and downs over the past few years -- from us calling the Model 01 the "heavyweight champion of vaporware," to literally having a market segment spring up around the devices -- things looked to be headed decidedly up with the release of the 3G-capable Model 02 at the start of the year. But as always with the San Francisco company, the transition between announcing a product and actually shipping it is proving to be a little difficult. With shipping delays stretching to 16 weeks, an OQO rep recently confirmed the problem and pointed the finger of blame: "All orders with Sprint and Verizon customers are on hold while some issues are ironed out with the WWAN product line." Engadget pal Boy Genius says his experience bears that out -- his commercially-purchased Model 02 has no software support for the supposedly-present Sprint modem, and to make it worse, the unit he received is covered in nicks and scratches, more evidence of hiccups along the OQO production line. Although we enjoy talking to the guys over at OQO, it sounds like they really need to get their ducks in a row with the Model 02. Peep the full Boy Genius rant with photos of his nicked-up Model 02 at the read link.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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