What are you talking about? The first images from the lander were put on the web site minutes after I saw them arrive in mission control on NASA TV. That's pretty impressive.
They don't "peacefully demonstrate", they actively interfere with operations they disapprove of, in some cases causing significant economic and/or material damages.
Boarding a ship, attaching oneself to a building, blocking a road, etc... are all outside acceptable political activism.
I have used beta 5 on ubuntu hardy for several weeks. The problems are:
After a while, 100% CPU usage.
Crash if you open too many tabs. I routinely opened bookmark folders of 50+ tabs with firefox 2. With beta5 this operation crashes systematically.
Random crashes. Happens systematically on certain sites. Even sites that do not use flash. Difficult to identify the cause.
This has been so frustrating I reverted to firefox 2. You know something is wrong when you are pleasantly surprised to see 20 tabs open without crashing.
The quote you give is overly dramatic. There is a sequence of events that must all happen at a precise time, and all succeed. Whether this sequence lasts 1 minute or 1 hour doesn't make it more or less difficult.
The speed will not be twice what the spacecraft can withstand... for a good reason: They run simulations with varying entry angles, entry speeds, wind speeds, etc... to figure out the highest landing speed possible, and design for that.
There is no need to harden anything if the design is sound. If a failure occurs (for example the chute not opening), hardened legs with not save you.
The landing site is constrained by the scientific objectives of the mission. There is not much leeway in this area.
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The NSA already does this. They have their own fab (the Special Processing Lab) that they use to manufacture sensitive ASICs for themselves and the DoD.
WinCE only supports a subset of the win32 api. Most (think 99%) of the 95/98/2000/XP applications won't run without modifications. However there are ports of office (very simplified) and IE for WinCE, so it would be possible for MS to create a reasonable laptop system out of CE without too much effort. But I guess customers would simply never accept something that looks so similar to a WinXP laptop yet cannot run the same apps. They accept the non-compatibility on a phone, not on a laptop.
On a more serious note, blockout (1989) works out of the box on a current windows machine. No patch, no special config, no nothing. These browsers do not. That is all that really matters. Of course you can tweak the web server,grab old libraries and what not to coerce them into working. My point is that you shouldn't need to.
It is always interesting to play with old software to see how brittle it really is.
I tried the earliest windows version (mosaic04.exe). It runs on wine without problem. Unfortunately it is impossible to load any page. I tried a variety of sites (google, yahoo, slashdot,...), none of them load. Here is a sample of the errors I got:
infinite chains of 302
no viewer for text/html
bad request
Next I tried the earliest linux version (netscape.i486-unknown-linux.B093). You cannot even run it on a modern distro:./netscape: can't load dynamic linker '/lib/ld.so'.
A current linux distro has thus more chance to run a windows app from 1994 than a linux app from the same period. As a side note, my copy of Blockout (1989) runs on Windows XP (2001) without a glitch. We also see that the web of 2008 is completely unusable by a browser of 1994. It is a shame that linux distributors and the W3C do not have the same focus on backward compatibility than Microsoft and Intel.
I think the main problem of C++ is that people who know C assume they automatically know C++ as well. They don't. You might want to read up on this std::vector thing.
That's a ridiculous argument. If telepathy is a form of communication, the brain still needs to have an input where it receive the information from the other brain. How is this input different from a "sensory apparatus"? Your definition of telepathy implies its impossibility, and is thus useless.
Or perhaps you consider that a device taping to the cochlear nerve is not part of the brain. Then what if the device was installed inside the cranium, directly connected to neurons, would you call it telepathy now ? If not where is the boundary ?
If you insist that the "brain" in you definition is a non-modified human brain then the question is quickly settled: telepathy doesn't exist. Therefore debating whether something is or is not telepathy is pointless.
This was one of the recommendations issued by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada following the crash of Swissair Flight 111. I'm glad they finally implemented that. To recap: the flight recorders in that flight lost power 6 minutes before impact, which necessitated a very costly reconstruction of a portion of the aircraft.
In any case I never understood why these recorders weren't required to have a battery backup from the beginning. Seems pretty idiotic since accidents involving loss of power are not hard to imagine. Furthermore devices like card access systems and elevators have had battery backups for years.
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You think using the word "bird" instead of "plane" makes you sound cool ? Trust me. It doesn't.
What are you talking about? The first images from the lander were put on the web site minutes after I saw them arrive in mission control on NASA TV. That's pretty impressive.
Yes. That's their business model.
Shit, you beat me to it.
They don't "peacefully demonstrate", they actively interfere with operations they disapprove of, in some cases causing significant economic and/or material damages.
Boarding a ship, attaching oneself to a building, blocking a road, etc... are all outside acceptable political activism.
16-core at 5.5mhz makes 88 millihertz and 8264234gb makes approximately 1033 kilogram*byte. Surprising specifications.
- After a while, 100% CPU usage.
- Crash if you open too many tabs. I routinely opened bookmark folders of 50+ tabs with firefox 2. With beta5 this operation crashes systematically.
- Random crashes. Happens systematically on certain sites. Even sites that do not use flash. Difficult to identify the cause.
This has been so frustrating I reverted to firefox 2. You know something is wrong when you are pleasantly surprised to see 20 tabs open without crashing.The quote you give is overly dramatic. There is a sequence of events that must all happen at a precise time, and all succeed. Whether this sequence lasts 1 minute or 1 hour doesn't make it more or less difficult.
The speed will not be twice what the spacecraft can withstand... for a good reason: They run simulations with varying entry angles, entry speeds, wind speeds, etc... to figure out the highest landing speed possible, and design for that.
There is no need to harden anything if the design is sound. If a failure occurs (for example the chute not opening), hardened legs with not save you.
The landing site is constrained by the scientific objectives of the mission. There is not much leeway in this area.
A very educational game to learn all you need to know about drugs, guns, prostitutes, loan sharks and New York geography. Highly recommended! http://dopewars.sourceforge.net/
You sir, have impressive reading skills. They are making gasoline, not ethanol.
The NSA already does this. They have their own fab (the Special Processing Lab) that they use to manufacture sensitive ASICs for themselves and the DoD.
Haven't you heard of USB keyboards ?
WinCE only supports a subset of the win32 api. Most (think 99%) of the 95/98/2000/XP applications won't run without modifications. However there are ports of office (very simplified) and IE for WinCE, so it would be possible for MS to create a reasonable laptop system out of CE without too much effort. But I guess customers would simply never accept something that looks so similar to a WinXP laptop yet cannot run the same apps. They accept the non-compatibility on a phone, not on a laptop.
You didn't look very hard, did you ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0TbGyIGv_0&locale=en_US&persist_locale=1
You want me to RTFA ? Are you crazy ?
On a more serious note, blockout (1989) works out of the box on a current windows machine. No patch, no special config, no nothing. These browsers do not. That is all that really matters. Of course you can tweak the web server,grab old libraries and what not to coerce them into working. My point is that you shouldn't need to.
I tried the earliest windows version (mosaic04.exe). It runs on wine without problem. Unfortunately it is impossible to load any page. I tried a variety of sites (google, yahoo, slashdot,
- infinite chains of 302
- no viewer for text/html
- bad request
Next I tried the earliest linux version (netscape.i486-unknown-linux.B093). You cannot even run it on a modern distro:A current linux distro has thus more chance to run a windows app from 1994 than a linux app from the same period. As a side note, my copy of Blockout (1989) runs on Windows XP (2001) without a glitch. We also see that the web of 2008 is completely unusable by a browser of 1994. It is a shame that linux distributors and the W3C do not have the same focus on backward compatibility than Microsoft and Intel.
I think the main problem of C++ is that people who know C assume they automatically know C++ as well. They don't. You might want to read up on this std::vector thing.
It already has: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm
That's a ridiculous argument. If telepathy is a form of communication, the brain still needs to have an input where it receive the information from the other brain. How is this input different from a "sensory apparatus"? Your definition of telepathy implies its impossibility, and is thus useless.
Or perhaps you consider that a device taping to the cochlear nerve is not part of the brain. Then what if the device was installed inside the cranium, directly connected to neurons, would you call it telepathy now ? If not where is the boundary ?
If you insist that the "brain" in you definition is a non-modified human brain then the question is quickly settled: telepathy doesn't exist. Therefore debating whether something is or is not telepathy is pointless.
Woosh!
This was one of the recommendations issued by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada following the crash of Swissair Flight 111. I'm glad they finally implemented that. To recap: the flight recorders in that flight lost power 6 minutes before impact, which necessitated a very costly reconstruction of a portion of the aircraft.
In any case I never understood why these recorders weren't required to have a battery backup from the beginning. Seems pretty idiotic since accidents involving loss of power are not hard to imagine. Furthermore devices like card access systems and elevators have had battery backups for years.
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