I've used my optical drive probably twice this calendar year, once to install an old game and once to install MFC printer s/w that's not available for download. For the most part I can do without one.
Challenger was hopeless because they'd stopped using ejection seats and hadn't started using parachutes. More importantly, however, the bird was out of control and the G forces were so high that it was difficult for anyone to move, and forget getting out. Your objection about the SRBs falling off is drivel: you/do/ know that the SRBs are jettisoned a couple minutes into every launch and the Shuttle used its main engines from then until orbital insertion, yes?
Columbia was hopeless because the heat shield was compromised and nobody knew until the wing fell off. If a Soyuz heat shield was compromised the crew'd be fucked too - although I'll grant you it'd be less likely to happen since a Soyuz heat shield is protected on the way up.
Probably 'cause the 810's 3D capabilities were shit. Intel didn't have any non-shit 3D ability on their IGPs until at least the 865, at least for Compiz's purposes.
Remember these old chips' 3D acceleration is what's no longer supported; 2D is still functional.
What really ensures smooth traffic flow is for everyone to be traveling at about the same speed, with no idiots getting right on someone's butt then hitting the brakes. When they do that, it sets up a standing wave where everyone behind the idiot has to slow down.
I try to do my part by acting as a low-pass filter: when I see people up ahead of me slowing down, I let off the accelerator and slow down gently so that nobody behind me who's paying the least bit of attention has to hit their brakes, thus removing the standing wave.
Obviously this can't help when you've got at-grade crossings when people will stop to wait for traffic so they can turn left, but it's a good general rule.
Given that it's Florida, it's really just that everyone in your state is retarded.
Here in southwest Missouri we've installed roundabouts on a few intersections and they work rather well. The only real downside I've noticed is that if you've got lots of traffic coming into the roundabout from one or two entrances, they will dominate because cars in the roundabout have the right-of-way. No real trouble with people not knowing what to do; this is probably helped by the entrances being canted so that you're forced to enter the thing going right.
We use yield signs at the entrances, and they are smaller single-lane jobs.
I actually had a discussion with a vendor whose code put their data in Program Files, which I had bollocked him for. IIRC his reason was because he wanted to coexist well with Terminal Services or Citrix summat.
Assuming he was correct, then that's a Microsoft and/or Citrix problem - they shouldn't write their stuff to require storing data/there/ of all places.
With the Shuttle, they'd have aborted to a western European airfield, or if that wasn't feasible then the crew could bail out once the bird was low and slow enough - they carried parachutes.
Sounds like that shouldn't be too hard in theory: have a complete statically-compiled version of X in a tarball that you dump in to/opt or/usr/local [1], and have a shellscript that adjusts your paths, etc. depending on which version you want to run.
It would be space-inefficient, but hard drives are/cheap/ these days.
[1] Perhaps utilizing something like GNU Stow, even, so you don't have to faff around with paths, but only have to run a couple Stow incantations each time you change which version you want. Parenthetically, I love Stow. It's a great way to manage locally-compiled programs.
Won't happen. Too much trouble for the distros. You'll almost certainly just have to stick with old distros or ones that are specifically for old hardware.
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This sort of sensationalism never would have been allowed back when Taco was running things.
I've used my optical drive probably twice this calendar year, once to install an old game and once to install MFC printer s/w that's not available for download. For the most part I can do without one.
Yes, we should.
PS: Religious folks can and do accept evolution.
Look, grishnakh, if you're going to be gay for me at least be man enough to post from your own account.
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My goodness yes they are.
I don't think so. The tailplane looks a lot like a Taube, but the wing shape is wrong.
Can you speak up? I can't hear you through the cocks in your mouth.
You might want to ask NASA about those ejection seats, fanboy. They used 'em on the first few flights.
Some idiots weren't around for the old SCO $699 fee troll, I see.
"Don't forget to pay your $699 license fee, you cock-smoking teabaggers!"
What a moran.
Oh, those cock smoking teabaggers.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Challenger was hopeless because they'd stopped using ejection seats and hadn't started using parachutes. More importantly, however, the bird was out of control and the G forces were so high that it was difficult for anyone to move, and forget getting out. Your objection about the SRBs falling off is drivel: you /do/ know that the SRBs are jettisoned a couple minutes into every launch and the Shuttle used its main engines from then until orbital insertion, yes?
Columbia was hopeless because the heat shield was compromised and nobody knew until the wing fell off. If a Soyuz heat shield was compromised the crew'd be fucked too - although I'll grant you it'd be less likely to happen since a Soyuz heat shield is protected on the way up.
I can see why you posted this idiocy as AC.
Probably 'cause the 810's 3D capabilities were shit. Intel didn't have any non-shit 3D ability on their IGPs until at least the 865, at least for Compiz's purposes.
Remember these old chips' 3D acceleration is what's no longer supported; 2D is still functional.
What really ensures smooth traffic flow is for everyone to be traveling at about the same speed, with no idiots getting right on someone's butt then hitting the brakes. When they do that, it sets up a standing wave where everyone behind the idiot has to slow down.
I try to do my part by acting as a low-pass filter: when I see people up ahead of me slowing down, I let off the accelerator and slow down gently so that nobody behind me who's paying the least bit of attention has to hit their brakes, thus removing the standing wave.
Obviously this can't help when you've got at-grade crossings when people will stop to wait for traffic so they can turn left, but it's a good general rule.
Even if that's true, none of the traffic in front of you is going to be stupid enough to drive like that.
Given that it's Florida, it's really just that everyone in your state is retarded.
Here in southwest Missouri we've installed roundabouts on a few intersections and they work rather well. The only real downside I've noticed is that if you've got lots of traffic coming into the roundabout from one or two entrances, they will dominate because cars in the roundabout have the right-of-way. No real trouble with people not knowing what to do; this is probably helped by the entrances being canted so that you're forced to enter the thing going right.
We use yield signs at the entrances, and they are smaller single-lane jobs.
I actually had a discussion with a vendor whose code put their data in Program Files, which I had bollocked him for. IIRC his reason was because he wanted to coexist well with Terminal Services or Citrix summat.
Assuming he was correct, then that's a Microsoft and/or Citrix problem - they shouldn't write their stuff to require storing data /there/ of all places.
Oh, they /should/. :eyeroll: I should have a pony.
But do they?
How long does it take to build and ready another Progress and rocket? How long to get the supplies to fill the Progress?
Then there's the need to accelerate the /next/ Progress because they didn't anticipate having supplies get low on account of a failed launch.
I know! We'll stop borrowing from them.
With the Shuttle, they'd have aborted to a western European airfield, or if that wasn't feasible then the crew could bail out once the bird was low and slow enough - they carried parachutes.
Ah, so you just wanted to say something stupid. Check.
Sounds like that shouldn't be too hard in theory: have a complete statically-compiled version of X in a tarball that you dump in to /opt or /usr/local [1], and have a shellscript that adjusts your paths, etc. depending on which version you want to run.
It would be space-inefficient, but hard drives are /cheap/ these days.
[1] Perhaps utilizing something like GNU Stow, even, so you don't have to faff around with paths, but only have to run a couple Stow incantations each time you change which version you want. Parenthetically, I love Stow. It's a great way to manage locally-compiled programs.
Get started on it then, fanboy.
Won't happen. Too much trouble for the distros. You'll almost certainly just have to stick with old distros or ones that are specifically for old hardware.