The space shuttle, for all its faults, was a far more sophisticated machine than anything that 'alt.space' has produced so far
Thanks, you've just summarized the whole freaking point of their efforts.
Musk has so far launched nothing that hasn't blown up in mid air.
I suspect that these companies could afford to blow up dozens of vehicles and still come in under a NASA budget. Meanwhile, they've learned volumes from each real-world test, instead of hinging the whole program on years of theory and simulation.
Have you ever used a Jura? It makes coffee the same way as a french press, only the whole process it automated, including grinding the beans. Basically, you leave it sitting on your counter, and it'll spit out a perfect cup of coffee in 30 seconds whenever you like.
I can't afford one, but I sure enjoy using my in-laws' when I visit.
Smaller might be better in this case. It's not hard to build an unsinkable boat below a certain size. The worst hurricane in the world can't sink a rubber duck.
When talking about hearts later, he remembered that the Aztecs took out people's hearts. So you have to be careful...
They DID remove people's hearts. Why do you think it was inappropriate for your son to gain this factual knowledge? As long as you aren't showing him graphic depictions of the process that are going to give him nightmares, I seeing absolutely nothing wrong.
Replace the semicolon with a period in the original phrase and see how it parses.
The problem is that "Not only" makes the first phrase dependent on the second. They can't be syntactically separated, by either a period or a semicolon.
like all the previous eBook tech that came with great fanfare and disappeared
Yeah, just like all those companies that tried to market "portable" computers and failed. There were dozens of them! Remember Osborne? Hahaha! Fools, all of them. They should have realized that no one will ever make money from that market.
The biggest change Jackson made in The Fellowship of the Ring was to remove an incredibly annoying, pointless character that could only appeal to little kids.
But when Half Life was new, there was a good 20 seconds of wait time between levels.
Half-Life level loading was amazingly fast. I had a middling PC at the time and level loads rarely took longer than 5 seconds, never more than 10. They did an amazing job of chopping the level into manageable chunks.
While we're at it, it was rare for a C64 game to have in-game loading. The vast majority of C64 games ran on tapes, so didn't have access to the tape after it had finished loading.
Are you thinking of the VIC-20? Everything for the C-64 was on diskette or (rarely) cartridge. Of course, the abysmally slow 1541 drive was little better than tape...
The only thing better than a regular toggle switch is a toggle switch with a flip-up protective cover. It says "You had better be damn sure of what you're doing before you toggle me. You need executive orders to flip me, and those orders must have been confirmed with the one-time codeword. Lives are at stake, here."
I call bullshit on Windows and Linux, and I'm pretty sure you're wrong even for DOS.
Maybe move should be implemented as copy, completly then delete but its often not.
Why on earth wouldn't you? Doing it any other way is not only obviously dangerous, it's far harder to implement! What would you do, map the file on disk, unlink the file and then copy and wipe each raw disk block? I could see doing something crazy like this in specialized applications, where freeing storage at the source is priority one, but in the general case it's insane.
The Apple issue is clearly just a stupid exception handling bug.
This may have been surprising, but if the two companies were onboard with being given stacks of cash so large they require heavy machinery to move it can hardly be dire, right?
Speaker cables don't need shielding for their own sake, the effect of RF interference is insignificant compared to the power carried to a speaker.
However, speaker cables can act as antennae to bring interference into the receiver, where it can then cause issues. Also, RF *from* the speaker wire can crosstalk with input cables. Shielding helps with those.
The guy creating music in his basement with Garageband and selling it on the web isn't someone that would otherwise have been sharing with his fellow musicians in a wonderful collaborative utopia. He's someone that would otherwise have been just another guy working at a bank his whole life, his creative abilities unknown to the world and perhaps even to himself.
...honestly, I got more enjoyment out of the Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, and Soldier of Fortune 2 demos than I have from MOST of the games I paid $60+ for.
How is a beach fundamentally different from a pool, for any of the issues you mention? By your logic, everyone should keep their wallets wrapped in their poolside towel.
And the kids would rip it off if they didn't want to be tracked (they're unruly)
There's a large window of kids between "slavish automatons standing rigidly at their parents' side" and "juvenile delinquents eager to mug old ladies for heroin money". Little kids don't run off maliciously, they just "go exploring", and will do so on a moment's notice. I think a local tracking system would be handy.
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The space shuttle, for all its faults, was a far more sophisticated machine than anything that 'alt.space' has produced so far
Thanks, you've just summarized the whole freaking point of their efforts.
Musk has so far launched nothing that hasn't blown up in mid air.
I suspect that these companies could afford to blow up dozens of vehicles and still come in under a NASA budget. Meanwhile, they've learned volumes from each real-world test, instead of hinging the whole program on years of theory and simulation.
Who gets data resulting from your use of a GPS navigator?
Have you ever used a Jura? It makes coffee the same way as a french press, only the whole process it automated, including grinding the beans. Basically, you leave it sitting on your counter, and it'll spit out a perfect cup of coffee in 30 seconds whenever you like.
I can't afford one, but I sure enjoy using my in-laws' when I visit.
Darn right! This is like asking how to efficiently procure and install pots throughout your house to catch all the water dripping from your ceiling.
This page (from a recent Slashdot article) reliably crashes to desktop for me, just as the previous beta did.
Smaller might be better in this case. It's not hard to build an unsinkable boat below a certain size. The worst hurricane in the world can't sink a rubber duck.
You just failed programming. Please return your license and get in line for septic tank maintenance training.
When talking about hearts later, he remembered that the Aztecs took out people's hearts. So you have to be careful...
They DID remove people's hearts. Why do you think it was inappropriate for your son to gain this factual knowledge? As long as you aren't showing him graphic depictions of the process that are going to give him nightmares, I seeing absolutely nothing wrong.
Replace the semicolon with a period in the original phrase and see how it parses.
The problem is that "Not only" makes the first phrase dependent on the second. They can't be syntactically separated, by either a period or a semicolon.
Bah. I always hated Wicos. The Command Control, the Boss, they were all the same. They just felt too mushy, I like some tactile feedback.
As for me, you'll have to pry my Epyx 500XJ from my cold dead hands.
An infrared helmet won't cure Alzheimer's, but an infrared helmet with a Wii tracking system on their TV would blow their poor confused minds.
like all the previous eBook tech that came with great fanfare and disappeared
Yeah, just like all those companies that tried to market "portable" computers and failed. There were dozens of them! Remember Osborne? Hahaha! Fools, all of them. They should have realized that no one will ever make money from that market.
The biggest change Jackson made in The Fellowship of the Ring was to remove an incredibly annoying, pointless character that could only appeal to little kids.
In this way, he is the anti-Lucas.
Saturn's moons are made of Scrith?
But when Half Life was new, there was a good 20 seconds of wait time between levels.
Half-Life level loading was amazingly fast. I had a middling PC at the time and level loads rarely took longer than 5 seconds, never more than 10. They did an amazing job of chopping the level into manageable chunks.
While we're at it, it was rare for a C64 game to have in-game loading. The vast majority of C64 games ran on tapes, so didn't have access to the tape after it had finished loading.
Are you thinking of the VIC-20? Everything for the C-64 was on diskette or (rarely) cartridge. Of course, the abysmally slow 1541 drive was little better than tape...
Yeah, when everything is sideways, it's a lot harder to figure out which symbol represents the zero.
The only thing better than a regular toggle switch is a toggle switch with a flip-up protective cover. It says "You had better be damn sure of what you're doing before you toggle me. You need executive orders to flip me, and those orders must have been confirmed with the one-time codeword. Lives are at stake, here."
I call bullshit on Windows and Linux, and I'm pretty sure you're wrong even for DOS.
Maybe move should be implemented as copy, completly then delete but its often not.
Why on earth wouldn't you? Doing it any other way is not only obviously dangerous, it's far harder to implement! What would you do, map the file on disk, unlink the file and then copy and wipe each raw disk block? I could see doing something crazy like this in specialized applications, where freeing storage at the source is priority one, but in the general case it's insane.
The Apple issue is clearly just a stupid exception handling bug.
This may have been surprising, but if the two companies were onboard with being given stacks of cash so large they require heavy machinery to move it can hardly be dire, right?
Fixed that for you.Speaker cables don't need shielding for their own sake, the effect of RF interference is insignificant compared to the power carried to a speaker.
However, speaker cables can act as antennae to bring interference into the receiver, where it can then cause issues. Also, RF *from* the speaker wire can crosstalk with input cables. Shielding helps with those.
Now now, children, play nice.
Bang on.
The guy creating music in his basement with Garageband and selling it on the web isn't someone that would otherwise have been sharing with his fellow musicians in a wonderful collaborative utopia. He's someone that would otherwise have been just another guy working at a bank his whole life, his creative abilities unknown to the world and perhaps even to himself.
How is a beach fundamentally different from a pool, for any of the issues you mention? By your logic, everyone should keep their wallets wrapped in their poolside towel.
And the kids would rip it off if they didn't want to be tracked (they're unruly) There's a large window of kids between "slavish automatons standing rigidly at their parents' side" and "juvenile delinquents eager to mug old ladies for heroin money". Little kids don't run off maliciously, they just "go exploring", and will do so on a moment's notice. I think a local tracking system would be handy.