Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Don't mess with Marines

This is pretty old, but still good:


http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2011/05/messing-with-wrong-marines.html

Text reads:

Assailant suffers injuries from fall

Orville Smith, a store manager for Best Buy in Augusta, GA., told police he observed a male customer, later identified as Tyrone Jackson of Augusta, on surveillance cameras putting a laptop computer under his jacket. When confronted the man became irate, knocked down an employee, drew a knife and ran for the door. 
Outside on the sidewalk were four Marines collecting toys for the Toys for Tots program. Smith said the Marines stopped the man, but he stabbed one of the Marines, CPL. Phillip Duggan, in the back; the injury did not appear to be severe. after Police and an ambulance arrived at the scene Cpl. Duggan was transported for treatment.
"The subject was also transported to the local hospital with two broken arms, a broken ankle, a broken leg, several missing teeth, possible broken ribs, multiple contusions, assorted lacerations, a broken nose, and a broken jaw...injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell off the curb after stabbing the Marine." According to a police report.

From TigerHawkBlog.

Don't mess with marines!

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

EEC RAM

While reading through some operating system technical recommendations I came across this:

If the probability of an error is one in a hundred quadrillion, and if the memory system is running at 10 MHz (100 nanosecond), and if you have 125 Megabytes of RAM (1 billion bits), then you would expect on average to see one single-bit error every ten seconds and one double-bit error every thousand quadrillion seconds (somewhat more than the age of the universe). That is why ECC memory is worth using, and why it is designed to detect but not correct double-bit errors.

I'm not sure this is correct, but it is rather interesting. The rest of the page is here:
http://www.ohio.edu/people/piccard/mis300/eccram.htm
(Also note the date at the bottom!)

Friday, May 17, 2013

Why Atheists are Irrational

This was another video I liked on YouTube.



Global Warming

The whole global warming thing is pretty ridiculous. I think people are starting to realize that, and it's quieted down some, I don't hear about it as much as I did a few years ago.
I think they've also labeled it 'climate change', which is more believable. A few years ago we had two snowstorms back to back that each dropped about two feet of snow, and the next year the temperature hovered around 50 most days. Still, trying to mess with the climate is rather pointless.

Good advertising

I was looking through my likes on YouTube, and noticed that I hadn't posted some of them here, so the next couple of posts will just be some of those.

Here's one that was interesting, this is also good advertising.