I'm typing this over a bluetooth enabled keyboard, to my bluetooth enabled laptop. And you know, I just cannot figure out how my phone and laptop keep that darned address book synchronized. It really has me puzzled. Whatever it is is sure is useful.
Hmm. let me wiggle over to check the links here, using my mouse.
Let's not even talk about a headset or two.
Definately dead. Yup.
Whatever.
You don't have to subscibe to the "Zone System" but you would benefit greatly from understanding the material. Certain tips are just timeless and it won't matter if you are shooting 20x24, 8x10, 4x5, 6x6, 35mm or some sort of digital thingy. The basics stay the same.
I have an old PC-1 programmable calculator that still does remote control for a door lock just fine. Been in operation since Carter was president. Had to change a few batteries, but that's about it. Still have a slide rule on my watch. Never underestimate it's utility. Over 32 years old.
I completely agree... of course, that would be "Submit a DRAFT" and IFF (if and only if) you are "measured and not found lacking" will it become an RFC (with MUCH review and oversight). In fact, there is just simply NO WAY that this "service" would have made it past the IETFreview process. None. Nadda, zilch.
Of course, that would be "Submit a DRAFT" and IFF (if and only if) you are "measured and not found lacking" will it become an RFC (with MUCH review and oversight). In fact, there is just simply NO WAY that this "service" would have made it past the IETFreview process. None. Nadda, zilch.
Again, no further comment, except to note that no one, I mean no one in business computing considers using Lisp. (Now some smartass Slashdotter will come along and triumphantly cite some obscure exception, which only confirms the rule.) This to me is a sure sign of a guy stuck in academia.
I don't know about trimphantly, but there are plenty of people using LISP in business computing. Our company included. We manufacture network appliances for the VoIP sector and there are applications where LISP's type system and ease of implementation gives us a huge advantage in time-to-market.
The right tool for the right job. I don't always agree with Phil Greenspun, but over the years, I've grown to respect his opinions and consider them carefully. He is an excellent community member, and, hosts a large community of developers, photographers and lately, aviation enthusiasts at his personal web presence. Phil's insights have often proven themselves to be accurate and well considered.
As a software developer with 15+ years experience, a photographer and a pilot, I think that Phil often has an interesting and emphatic way of giving people something to think about.
That's what we settled on. The entire rest of our world is ApplePowerBooks, iBooks and Gentoo boxen (except the internal web server -- it's an old RedHat machine).
We tried and tried and tried all the other IMAP servers, since we had to support Outlook XP, only UW-IMAP seemed to work with TLS and Outlook.
I would not want to run Gentoo on my mailserver. I want fast, fire and forget. I love Gentoo and OS X on my G4 PowerBook, on my desktop and even in the server and testbed farms.
Not email.
Not for a while.
BTW, did I mention that we dropped it into a pre-existing environment that already has a proper DMZ amd automated, network backups (AMANDA)? To DLT?
These are things you'll want to seriously consider since email is important to you, after all.
Took the words right out of my mouth. I've be writting GUIs and graphics applications for X since X11R3. Xlib has a bit of a curve to it, but if you have any background at all in computer science and graphics, it isn't too hard to understand the abstractions. The X Window System has a long and interesting history.
Xlib still has a lot going for it, espcially in terms of availability on the various UNIX variants out there and one of it's often overlooked features, especially by younger less experienced developers: network portability. This feature is absolutely wonderful inside a corporate or research environment where your workstation isn't necessarily where you run your code and/or do your work.
Xlib + Xt + Motif + MotifTools (or whatever they are called today) is still a viable, useful toolchain for developing applications. Canada's latest civilian Air Traffic Control Enroute system (CAATS) uses Xlib + Xt + Motif for it's extremely customized UI. (It's not for the faint of heart -- no help ballons there). The Canadian Military also adopted a system based on the same underlying technology (from the same vendor) for it's ATC enroute and local control.
As always, the right tool for the right job, but also, the right developer for the right job helps a lot too. You wouldn't let a kid loose with a jackhammer, so why let an inexperienced software developer loose with Xlib + Xt + Motif?:-)
And as long as that's the case, there's little reason for anyone to run Linux, except for their own religious issues.
Again, the right tool for the right job. If I want a reliable, effective server platform, a good software development environment or a suit of *NIX style tools, then Windows isn't going to work. You are right, for many people, Linux isn't the right tool and Windows might be. There are other offerings that are likely a better fit for most people. The gamers are going to find themselves better off in the Windows world for now. Not because Windows is better technology for games, but because Windows is what games companies develop for.
My biggest
Linux annoyance is that it doesn't run Windows games. Sure, you can get some 5 year old games to run by sacrificing a chicken to the Winex gods, but if you want to play any decent games you MUST run Windows.
My biggest hammer annoyance is that it doesn't drive screws. Sure, you can get some machine screws driven into soft wood by sacrificing a chicken to the Home Depot gods, but if you want to drive a real screw you MUST use a screwdriver.
And just how is that insightful? I mean, use the right tool for the right job. Come on. Your post answers itself.
What interests me, is how he managed to accelerate up to the 360 kph mark, and slow back down, without the sharp sudden stop that I associate with skydiving.
Simple aerodynamics / rules of flight.
You trade potential energy for kinetic energy. Gain some speed at the expense of altitude and you go faster; adjust your angle of attack appropriately and you will both round out your glide and reduce your speed. If fact, if he had sufficient lift generating capability from the wings he could essentially pull up into an aerodynamic stall and have a descent rate of nil -- if the wings can bear sufficient loading, he might also be able to reduce his translational velocity to zero as well.
Your calculations are only really valid if you assume he travelled at a constant speed -- his quoted peak speed -- which isn't plausible at all.
In a great many jurisdictions, Halon systems are not permitted in personal residences. They are a hazard to life and limb. The old server rooms we protected with Halon systems required 'life support' equipment in case you were in the server room when the system discharged.
Halon displaces the oxygen in the environment it is released into. This is NOT something you want to be doing in your house without sufficient research, and compliance with ALL local ordinances. Failure to do this could jeopardize you and your family. However, I'm sure your machines would survive.
Your insurance company would likely be less than thrilled at the prospect of you having an automated mechanism for discharging a gas that can asphyxiate you and yours.
Back in school we always had a saying, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes." Seems like that still holds true.
It was certainly in the 2nd edition, the one I used, and might have even been in the 1st edition. I is still in the latest edition. (One of the young-uns in the office has the 4th edition on his shelf.)
A famous line if ever there was one in the geek world, although perhaps not as humourous as Chairman Bill's: "640K ought to be enough for anyone [ paraphrased ]".
In violation of what?...
Paul Vixie's license perhaps?...
I don't think so:
# * Distribute freely, except: don't remove my name from the source or # * documentation [1] (don't take credit for my work), mark your changes (don't # * get me blamed for your possible bugs)[2], don't alter or remove this # * notice.[3] May be sold if buildable source is provided to buyer.[4] No
Safe on this account -- you are reading the license itself, as redistributed
Source appears to be unmodified -- all diffs that I can see are known patches.
There it is, no problem
Again, here's the source, compliant again.
The license as stated applies to Vixie Cron, not necessarily to the aggregation of parts that is the entire product. IANAL so interpret this with council if it matters to you.
Sure, I'll loan you 2K. I expect you to pay it back at 16% P.A. compounded daily over 24 months. Interested? Contact me. Where's a G5 to do the interest calcs when I need one?
Oh... perhaps your really wanted me to give you 2000$?;-)
Hey -- I'm not dissing you -- but it was funny that you made the mistake.:-)
One thing to remember these days -- given the broad range of exposure to computers, from Grandma through systems designers, compiler writers, and formal methods gurus. The latter sets make up less and less of the community.
Although it is agreed that CFG's, regular expressions, FSM and compiler technologies are important, I'd wager that well under 1% of the online community -- and even under 5% of the 'technical' community every really had to wade through the proof that an NFA called N is equivalent to a DFA called D subject to the following blah blah blah.:-)
If you're taking a compiler course -- I would have to assume that a pre-req was the Theory of Computation (or equivalent course). When I was that age, (here we go), Theory 1 was a 1/2 course (semester) and was the pre-req for the compiler course (along with some math courses). The compiler course was a full-course (1 yr long).
All you have are zero-or-more "+", one-or-more "*", conditional "? or sometimes...
...these bozos that think "regexp" sounds cool...
Just like the bozo who just finished a Formal Computation course, yet mixed up the meanings of "+" and "*" ?;-)
From man grep:
A regular expression may be followed by one of several repetition operators: ? The preceding item is optional and matched at most once. * The preceding item will be matched zero or more times.
I hear they're serving humble pie at the school cafeteria today.;-)
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I'm typing this over a bluetooth enabled keyboard, to my bluetooth enabled laptop. And you know, I just cannot figure out how my phone and laptop keep that darned address book synchronized. It really has me puzzled. Whatever it is is sure is useful.
Hmm. let me wiggle over to check the links here, using my mouse.
Let's not even talk about a headset or two.
Definately dead. Yup.
Whatever.
You don't have to subscibe to the "Zone System" but you would benefit greatly from understanding the material. Certain tips are just timeless and it won't matter if you are shooting 20x24, 8x10, 4x5, 6x6, 35mm or some sort of digital thingy. The basics stay the same.
I have an old PC-1 programmable calculator that still does remote control for a door lock just fine. Been in operation since Carter was president. Had to change a few batteries, but that's about it. Still have a slide rule on my watch. Never underestimate it's utility. Over 32 years old.
I completely agree... of course, that would be "Submit a DRAFT" and IFF (if and only if) you are "measured and not found lacking" will it become an RFC (with MUCH review and oversight). In fact, there is just simply NO WAY that this "service" would have made it past the IETF review process. None. Nadda, zilch.
Of course, that would be "Submit a DRAFT" and IFF (if and only if) you are "measured and not found lacking" will it become an RFC (with MUCH review and oversight). In fact, there is just simply NO WAY that this "service" would have made it past the IETF review process. None. Nadda, zilch.
1) First Post
2) The standard Tri-Tone OOS tone might help, otherwise. I think the CRTC is your best bet.
I don't know about trimphantly, but there are plenty of people using LISP in business computing. Our company included. We manufacture network appliances for the VoIP sector and there are applications where LISP's type system and ease of implementation gives us a huge advantage in time-to-market.
The right tool for the right job. I don't always agree with Phil Greenspun, but over the years, I've grown to respect his opinions and consider them carefully. He is an excellent community member, and, hosts a large community of developers, photographers and lately, aviation enthusiasts at his personal web presence. Phil's insights have often proven themselves to be accurate and well considered.
As a software developer with 15+ years experience, a photographer and a pilot, I think that Phil often has an interesting and emphatic way of giving people something to think about.
That's what we settled on. The entire rest of our world is Apple PowerBooks, iBooks and Gentoo boxen (except the internal web server -- it's an old RedHat machine).
We tried and tried and tried all the other IMAP servers, since we had to support Outlook XP, only UW-IMAP seemed to work with TLS and Outlook.
I would not want to run Gentoo on my mailserver. I want fast, fire and forget. I love Gentoo and OS X on my G4 PowerBook, on my desktop and even in the server and testbed farms.
Not email.
Not for a while.
BTW, did I mention that we dropped it into a pre-existing environment that already has a proper DMZ amd automated, network backups (AMANDA)? To DLT? These are things you'll want to seriously consider since email is important to you, after all.You can see a screen shot of my lame attempt at making a cube with Graffle.
For quick sketches and graphs, its an amazing little tool.
Took the words right out of my mouth. I've be writting GUIs and graphics applications for X since X11R3. Xlib has a bit of a curve to it, but if you have any background at all in computer science and graphics, it isn't too hard to understand the abstractions. The X Window System has a long and interesting history.
:-)
Xlib still has a lot going for it, espcially in terms of availability on the various UNIX variants out there and one of it's often overlooked features, especially by younger less experienced developers: network portability. This feature is absolutely wonderful inside a corporate or research environment where your workstation isn't necessarily where you run your code and/or do your work.
Xlib + Xt + Motif + MotifTools (or whatever they are called today) is still a viable, useful toolchain for developing applications. Canada's latest civilian Air Traffic Control Enroute system (CAATS) uses Xlib + Xt + Motif for it's extremely customized UI. (It's not for the faint of heart -- no help ballons there). The Canadian Military also adopted a system based on the same underlying technology (from the same vendor) for it's ATC enroute and local control.
As always, the right tool for the right job, but also, the right developer for the right job helps a lot too. You wouldn't let a kid loose with a jackhammer, so why let an inexperienced software developer loose with Xlib + Xt + Motif?
My biggest hammer annoyance is that it doesn't drive screws. Sure, you can get some machine screws driven into soft wood by sacrificing a chicken to the Home Depot gods, but if you want to drive a real screw you MUST use a screwdriver.
And just how is that insightful? I mean, use the right tool for the right job. Come on. Your post answers itself.
Simple aerodynamics / rules of flight.
You trade potential energy for kinetic energy. Gain some speed at the expense of altitude and you go faster; adjust your angle of attack appropriately and you will both round out your glide and reduce your speed. If fact, if he had sufficient lift generating capability from the wings he could essentially pull up into an aerodynamic stall and have a descent rate of nil -- if the wings can bear sufficient loading, he might also be able to reduce his translational velocity to zero as well.
Your calculations are only really valid if you assume he travelled at a constant speed -- his quoted peak speed -- which isn't plausible at all.
In a great many jurisdictions, Halon systems are not permitted in personal residences. They are a hazard to life and limb. The old server rooms we protected with Halon systems required 'life support' equipment in case you were in the server room when the system discharged.
Halon displaces the oxygen in the environment it is released into. This is NOT something you want to be doing in your house without sufficient research, and compliance with ALL local ordinances. Failure to do this could jeopardize you and your family. However, I'm sure your machines would survive.
Your insurance company would likely be less than thrilled at the prospect of you having an automated mechanism for discharging a gas that can asphyxiate you and yours.
CowboyNeal writes:
That `saying' is from Andrew S. Tannenbaum's notoriously well written textbook titled simply: "Computer Networks".
It was certainly in the 2nd edition, the one I used, and might have even been in the 1st edition. I is still in the latest edition. (One of the young-uns in the office has the 4th edition on his shelf.)
A famous line if ever there was one in the geek world, although perhaps not as humourous as Chairman Bill's:
"640K ought to be enough for anyone [ paraphrased ]".
Or do you:
:-)
Apply 1,2, 5 on the spot and 6 as soon as you return to you workarea?
Hmm. Passes the geek sniff test to me.
Paul Vixie's license perhaps?
I don't think so:
- Safe on this account -- you are reading the license itself, as redistributed
- Source appears to be unmodified -- all diffs that I can see are known patches.
- There it is, no problem
- Again, here's the source, compliant again.
The license as stated applies to Vixie Cron, not necessarily to the aggregation of parts that is the entire product. IANAL so interpret this with council if it matters to you.But less is more.
For me that's 9 words in 6 minutes or a more realistic (for a Troll) 1.5 WPM.
Mavis is safe and sound; more importantly, she isn't on slashdot.
Sure, I'll loan you 2K. I expect you to pay it back at 16% P.A. compounded daily over 24 months. Interested? Contact me. Where's a G5 to do the interest calcs when I need one?
Oh... perhaps your really wanted me to give you 2000$? ;-)
Hey -- I'm not dissing you -- but it was funny that you made the mistake. :-)
:-)
One thing to remember these days -- given the broad range of exposure to computers, from Grandma through systems designers, compiler writers, and formal methods gurus. The latter sets make up less and less of the community.
Although it is agreed that CFG's, regular expressions, FSM and compiler technologies are important, I'd wager that well under 1% of the online community -- and even under 5% of the 'technical' community every really had to wade through the proof that an NFA called N is equivalent to a DFA called D subject to the following blah blah blah.
If you're taking a compiler course -- I would have to assume that a pre-req was the Theory of Computation (or equivalent course). When I was that age, (here we go), Theory 1 was a 1/2 course (semester) and was the pre-req for the compiler course (along with some math courses). The compiler course was a full-course (1 yr long).
Just like the bozo who just finished a Formal Computation course, yet mixed up the meanings of "+" and "*" ? ;-)
From man grep:
I hear they're serving humble pie at the school cafeteria today. ;-)
Hmm...
And how, exactly would Wonder Bread be infringing on a patent for baked bread?! Wouldn't it have to be bread?
I mean ... look that that uniformity! -- that cannot be real bread.
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