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You are plain wrong. It was a mainframe, had a 36 bit architecture and ran the TOPS 10 operating system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10 I did a major is computer science, mostly on the PDP 10, I didn't dream all this up. You should look before you leap next time. The PDP 11 was...

As a student, the first computer I logged on to was a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP 10. You don't keep one of these things in your bedroom! It had 240k words of 36 bit magnetic core memory. The latter is a 3D matrix of wires laced through ferrite rings. Slightly later PDP 10s used...

Here's a bit of crystal ball gazing. They are/will invest heavily into nuclear power technology. China is building 70GWe of nuclear capacity by 2020 with proposals for 140GWe more. They have also established a joint venture with Russia to build two commercial BN-800 advanced sodium cooled fast...

PS If you go the NVidia route, by far the best source of support is the NVidia Linux support Forum http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s&forumid=14 Some very knowledgeable people hang out there as do the capable NVidia support guys.

In principle, you can use any number of different video cards and a mix of drivers on any Linux distribution and get one desktop through Xinerama. In practice, things may not be so simple when dealing with closed source, proprietary video drivers such as NVidia. And you do want to use NVidia...

It's pretty obvious that there is a considerable chance that missile technology will sooner or later make carriers obsolete in a similar way that carriers made battleships obsolete.

Sorry I'm not in a position to advise on Java-COM bridge. I did try one ages ago, and it seemed to work OK, but it was nothing serious. I just wanted to see if it worked. If it was me, I'd start with an open source Java-COM bridge because at last resort you have the source code and can fix any...

Possible ? Probably. Desirable ? Questionable. Performance hit? Maybe. But it may not be significant. It depends on what your requirements are. Unless you want to be into high frequency stuff it may not be relevant. The more important question is whether it is robust and reliable. Is the...

But that's fault of particular curriculum rather than the Java programming language. I suspect he is somewhat overstating his case in the cause of anti-Java zealotry. When I did a graduate Dip Comp Sci, which is more years ago than I care to remember, I didn't end up with a "primary language"...

In all seriousness, the only way that would be terrorists could obtain a nuclear weapon is to buy one or steal one. Nuclear armed states tend to keep their weapons under very tight security for the very good reason that should the unthinkable happen it is more likely than not that the victim...

This is getting stupid. There isn't a futures exchange on the planet that sets margin (or rather performance bond) requirements at such a idiotic level. Or anywhere near such a level. Why do you think that is? Maybe because it's well and truly outside any reasonable limitation of risk? But...

Why don't you just have a look on Dell or HP or IBM etc websites and see what's on offer. And make some attempt at specifying requirements eg memory, number of CPUs/cores, storage etc. What you have written here is meaningless.

As Bob111 says, using the sockets 'API' with IQFeed is easy. All you need to do is parse records with comma delimited fields. The documentation is sufficient to get the job done.

Heat waves could be commonplace in the US by 2039, Stanford study finds Exceptionally long heat waves and other hot events could become commonplace in the United States in the next 30 years, according to a new study by Stanford University climate scientists. "Using a large suite of climate...

U.A.E. denies backing use of force against Iran "A senior UAE official says his country rejects the use of force against Iran over its nuclear program, despite reports that a top diplomat suggested a military strike is an option if sanctions fail. "The UAE's Assistant Foreign Minister for...

Aside from the fact that it is not a "leftist agency" except in the fevered imaginations of some kooky conspiracy theorists, the main conclusion was: "Our findings do not contradict the main conclusions of the IPCC," the report said. "There is ample observational evidence of natural systems...

Sea level rise, destruction of biodiversity, destruction of productive capacity of farmland, some inhabited areas becoming literally so hot that humans cannot exist there, regional temperature and rainfall changes far exceeding the global average. During the horrendous bushfires in Australia...

These are the peak bodies of world science. You know, the science that modern civilization is built upon.

You are descending to ridiculous nonsense. As a matter of fact, I agree with James Hansen who unequivocally condemns carbon trading schemes.

The wild accusations that scientists have deliberately falsified data. What rock have you been living under?