Have you tried Orbiter? It does the whole launch, dock and land cycle with the space shuttle and has addons to allow you to do apollo missions. It's damned hard work getting the shuttle into orbit!
And then came Firefox, which was for ages just vapourware. No, lemme rephrase that: it took years before even being worthy of being called "vapourware.
Don't forget that the Mozilla suite came before Firefox. I can't forgive revisionist history:)
No, again, XP is no longer Windows '98. Have you even used a Windows XP system lately? No, I don't think so. I haven't seen one BSOD-ing even once, unless there's actually a hardware fault.
Whilst I completely agree that XP crashes rarely, at least one reason you won't have seen a BSOD is that by default it will just reset on an error rather than going to a BSOD.
I have had problems coming back to my computer and it having restarted - when I changed the setting so that it would BSOD instead I did end up seeing BSODs.
It is cute that they wrote it up like that though. On a par (for many people) to writing something like "and the simulations were done with a very special machine called a com-put-er".
I did some rough calculations on this topic a while back - for Sterling mind. $100M = £53.1M. My guesses were that this is what 20kg of notes would get you:
£53.1M in £50 notes would weigh 1,354kg £53.1M in £20 notes would weigh 3,104kg £53.1M in £10 notes would weigh 5,580kg £53.1M in £5 notes would weigh 10,036kg
These are all complete guesses based on a guess of the relative size of notes (I only had one to measure) and the weight of the paper.
The UK 2p coin is the heaviest for its value at 7.12g each. £53.1M = 2.655 billion 2p coins, weighing in at 18.9M kg. Ouch.
So there you go. A lot whichever way you look at it:)
Someone else has replied moving to a higher orbit would be pretty difficult.
If you're on Windows or fancy giving it a try under Wine (I've no idea whether it works with Wine), then have a look at Orbiter, the free 3D space simulator and try just getting Atlantis into orbit. It's hard!:)
http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbi t. html
I'm tired of reading documentation that's written like I already understand the system and only makes sense after you know what you're doing. If I already understood the system I wouldn't need docs.
It's an excellent point - don't just document your API, tell us how to use it!
If the Mozilla Foundation is going to kill off the suite, I would be happy if they just took Firefox and changed the UI to match the browser from the suite.
That is the best idea I've heard in a long time. I had the same expectations of Firefox as the grandparent and was extremely disappointed with what they produced instead.
Let's get rid of the dumbed down interface and replace it with the one from the suite.
As I use the browswer and mail client, I'd still prefer to have the suite but would settle on getting a "proper" Firefox.
Because a lot of people use Firefox just to stick it to Microsoft in their minds. The more rational of us use it and other alternatives simply because we see them as the technically superior browsers.
Hence your sig I guess:
Firefox with two tabs: 49,532K Opera with two tabs: 20,188K
I couldn't agree more, although I would also add that people use Firefox because it is the "cool" thing to do.
I personally choose to use Mozilla (of the suite) because it suits me better and I do find it terribly amusing that it is currently using 29,200K (according to Windows) with one tab open for Slashdot, one for Gmail and this tab to reply to you.
OOo 2.0 allows you to install what you want on Windows. I can't remember if this was the case for 1.x and don't know whether it works that way for Linux.
Have a play with Orbiter using the shuttle if you're on Windows.
http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbi t. html
You'll find it is not that easy to just get the thing into orbit at all. Going to the moon would be even worse.
The Orbiter manual notes that the shuttle relies on the loss of weight as the fuel burns to make it into orbit. If you have unlimited fuel (that is, it is always full), then you can't make it into orbit apparently.
It seems to me that if the wobble moves in a direction at a right angle to the tilt it will effectively change the direction of the tilt.
So imagine viewing the earth and the sun with the axis of rotation of the earth pointing left-right, or 90 degrees for the observer. The right angle wobble will move the axis of rotation so that it is say 85 degrees or 95 degrees.
It might also be changing the tilt angle as well, I'm not sure.
If this is right, I think it would be changing when the seasons occur.
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I often think in terms on dozens. Just the other day I bought a dozen slices of meat and half a dozen slices of another.
:) be "dozens" as a reasonable synonym for "lots".
:)
In general conversation it is more likely used as an approximate value. How many people are going out tonight? A dozen or so.
Likewise, if someone asked how many errors I still had to fix at work it would (unfortunately
I am English so this could be a cross-atlantic difference. The submitter is currently residing in the US though.
From a lazy point of view, "4 dozen" is three syllables and "almost 50" is 4
Cheers,
Roger
Have you tried Orbiter? It does the whole launch, dock and land cycle with the space shuttle and has addons to allow you to do apollo missions. It's damned hard work getting the shuttle into orbit!
. html
http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit
Windows only, no idea whether it runs under Wine or not.
Roger
Right. SRAM is much faster than DRAM but much less dense which is why it is often used in processor caches.
And then came Firefox, which was for ages just vapourware. No, lemme rephrase that: it took years before even being worthy of being called "vapourware.
Don't forget that the Mozilla suite came before Firefox. I can't forgive revisionist history :)
Cheers,
Roger
No, again, XP is no longer Windows '98. Have you even used a Windows XP system lately? No, I don't think so. I haven't seen one BSOD-ing even once, unless there's actually a hardware fault.
Whilst I completely agree that XP crashes rarely, at least one reason you won't have seen a BSOD is that by default it will just reset on an error rather than going to a BSOD.
I have had problems coming back to my computer and it having restarted - when I changed the setting so that it would BSOD instead I did end up seeing BSODs.
Cheers,
Roger
Damn right. I'll be getting Serious Sam 2 when it comes out.
h (boom).
The others were really fun.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrhhh
Cheers,
Roger
We can only hope you are correct....
Context Menu - M is Rename in Windows. Use it quite often.
:)
Not exactly the most full use of the key I admit...
Roger
'The first rule of Robot Club is, "You do not talk about Robot Club".
The second rule of Robot Club is, "You DO NOT TALK AB-", no, wait--I got that wrong. The second rule of Robot Club is, "No Smoking".'
Cheers,
Roger
Damn right.
Roger
Well that's fair enough then.
Personally I often end up with lots of pages open so multiple windows would mean a very squashed task bar.
Cheers,
Roger
It is cute that they wrote it up like that though. On a par (for many people) to writing something like "and the simulations were done with a very special machine called a com-put-er".
Cheers,
Roger
That's what we have two eyes for :)
Just kidding.
$100M = 234,602 gold ounces = 7,297kg
:)
$100M = 114,341 platinum ounces = 3,556kg
I did some rough calculations on this topic a while back - for Sterling mind. $100M = £53.1M. My guesses were that this is what 20kg of notes would get you:
£50 - 15686 notes (£784,300)
£20 - 17105 notes (£342,100)
£10 - 19033 notes (£190,330)
£5 - 21,164 notes (£105,820)
So:
£53.1M in £50 notes would weigh 1,354kg
£53.1M in £20 notes would weigh 3,104kg
£53.1M in £10 notes would weigh 5,580kg
£53.1M in £5 notes would weigh 10,036kg
These are all complete guesses based on a guess of the relative size of notes (I only had one to measure) and the weight of the paper.
The UK 2p coin is the heaviest for its value at 7.12g each. £53.1M = 2.655 billion 2p coins, weighing in at 18.9M kg. Ouch.
So there you go. A lot whichever way you look at it
Currency conversion from http://www.xe.net/ucc/
Cheers,
Roger
Someone else has replied moving to a higher orbit would be pretty difficult.
:)
i t. html
If you're on Windows or fancy giving it a try under Wine (I've no idea whether it works with Wine), then have a look at Orbiter, the free 3D space simulator and try just getting Atlantis into orbit. It's hard!
http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orb
Cheers,
Roger
There are quite a lot of stars within 5000 ly of us - 600 million according to here: http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/5000lys.html
I wonder how many of those are neutron stars? I can't imagine it being that many.
Anyway, I just wanted to point out that set of pages because it is quite neat. Starts from 12.5 ly across and zooms out to universe across.
Start with this one for best effect:
http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/12lys.html
Cheers,
Roger
I felt this needed highlighting:
I'm tired of reading documentation that's written like I already understand the system and only makes sense after you know what you're doing. If I already understood the system I wouldn't need docs.
It's an excellent point - don't just document your API, tell us how to use it!
Cheers,
RogerIf the Mozilla Foundation is going to kill off the suite, I would be happy if they just took Firefox and changed the UI to match the browser from the suite.
That is the best idea I've heard in a long time. I had the same expectations of Firefox as the grandparent and was extremely disappointed with what they produced instead.
Let's get rid of the dumbed down interface and replace it with the one from the suite.
As I use the browswer and mail client, I'd still prefer to have the suite but would settle on getting a "proper" Firefox.
Cheers,
RogerBecause a lot of people use Firefox just to stick it to Microsoft in their minds. The more rational of us use it and other alternatives simply because we see them as the technically superior browsers.
Hence your sig I guess:
Firefox with two tabs: 49,532K Opera with two tabs: 20,188K
I couldn't agree more, although I would also add that people use Firefox because it is the "cool" thing to do.
I personally choose to use Mozilla (of the suite) because it suits me better and I do find it terribly amusing that it is currently using 29,200K (according to Windows) with one tab open for Slashdot, one for Gmail and this tab to reply to you.
This is Mozilla 1.8b on Windows 2000
Cheers,
Roger
OOo 2.0 allows you to install what you want on Windows. I can't remember if this was the case for 1.x and don't know whether it works that way for Linux.
Quite a useless reply this isn't it?
Cheers,
Roger
Thanks, that made me smile.
Have a play with Orbiter using the shuttle if you're on Windows.
i t. html
http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orb
You'll find it is not that easy to just get the thing into orbit at all. Going to the moon would be even worse.
The Orbiter manual notes that the shuttle relies on the loss of weight as the fuel burns to make it into orbit. If you have unlimited fuel (that is, it is always full), then you can't make it into orbit apparently.
Cheers,
Roger
The Ford Thunder Cougar Falcon Bird! Nothing
makes you feel more like a man than the Thunder
Cougar Falcon Bird!
Fix it how?
I use the KDE packages from blastwave.org and haven't had any problems.
Cheers,
Roger
Yes, that is a good point that I didn't address.
It seems to me that if the wobble moves in a direction at a right angle to the tilt it will effectively change the direction of the tilt.
So imagine viewing the earth and the sun with the axis of rotation of the earth pointing left-right, or 90 degrees for the observer. The right angle wobble will move the axis of rotation so that it is say 85 degrees or 95 degrees.
It might also be changing the tilt angle as well, I'm not sure.
If this is right, I think it would be changing when the seasons occur.