Actually I think the less imports you have the less time it takes for the box to appear. On my machine (P2-400, 128MB RAM) only the first time I load it takes longer, otherwise the Intellisense box appears instantaneously. I've noticed it is a lot slower in VC++ though.
Real player does that, because it is a piece of bloatware and every time it starts up it takes ages. So this little StartCenter keeps important parts loaded in memory so that your Real Player starts faster when you need it. The new Real Player takes like 40 megs when installed. I think it has a full msie5 browser subsystem to render all those cool (but pointless) things when you go to Top 5 picks and stuff like that. That is why when I can I use Windows Media player.
I think passive radars (that don't emit) are standard equipment on most fighter planes. You only need to illuminate a target (actually emit radio waves) when you start tracking it.
IIRC the Roman empire was the only superpower in its time and probably the only country worth counting and still it fell to a few thousand barbarian horsemen.
From what I've read, if you have a large distributed radar network (many radars all over the place, coordinated by a central computer), you have a high chance of tracking stealth planes like f117 and b2, because one radar's signal will get reflected in a different direction and may be caught by another radar. Also, stealth planes are as visible as ordinary fighters when they open their weapon bays to fire. There have been cases when the weapon bay jams open and then the f117 is basically a sitting duck.
My, my. What do you know? For years after it was built the engineers WERE Russian. Oh, by the way I am not worried at all. Also, European standard requires 16 mm thick lead (.66 inch) casing around the reactors. In ours, they installed 45 mm. That's a lot of lead.
I don't think they will be hit as hard as you think by Y2K, because their equipment is so low tech that usually it has no microchips that have date problems. Most factories probably use 60's technology which is Y2K bug free by default i.e. no computers at all. Sometimes low-tech is a good thing then. I always wondered how would the water supply for example stop on Jan 1,00. What computer might possibly be controlling the water in the pipes and why would it depend on the date?
I remember reading a few years ago (in National Geographic magazine) that there was fish again in the lagunas of the Bikini atol. They were amazed that there would be life there so short after the nuclear experiments. And those were no core meltdowns but full fledged atimic bombs dropped on the island. So I am not surprised that Chernobyl is clean -- al the radioactive dust was blown away by winds and since the reactor was encased in concrete there is no more emission. Also, I would think that natural emissions from decay are much much less than those during a normal nuclear reaction Note: the fish in the Bikini atol were normal, i.e. no 4 mouths, human ears or anything of the sort.
We have a Chernobyl type nuclear plant with 6 reactors (4 of them exactly the same as those in Chernobyl) in my country . The European Union wants us to stop those reactors, because of "safety concerns". And when we stop them, they say they will sell us electricity. Obviously the reators are working at full power:-) Oh yeah, my country is Bulgaria by the way.
Actually it is not necessary for *all* bugs to be fixed for Release. IF there are some bugs that will not affect 99.9% of users and they are really hard to fix (i.e. major modifications)they might just be left alone. You can never fix all bugs
A GU Theory would have to describe the whole universe. And therefore it should explain the existance of humans and therefore deduce its own existance. Is it then at all possible to have such a theory? Deducing its own existance would break the incompleteness theorem and thus make the GUT incorrect.
Unfortunatrely gyros tend to fail after some time. That is why it has six of them and now four have failed. The Mir space station had the same problem, its gyros failed very frequently.
Actually Java can be fast. There are a few tricks and in general you have to keep things simple... At the place where I work we actually prototyped a Java version of something we already had for Windows in C++/ATL/COM and the Java version was faster (well, some functionality was lacking, but it was still quite fast).
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Actually I think the less imports you have the less time it takes for the box to appear. On my machine (P2-400, 128MB RAM) only the first time I load it takes longer, otherwise the Intellisense box appears instantaneously. I've noticed it is a lot slower in VC++ though.
Because most people do not have static IP and so their IP changes every time they connect to the internet? Even cable modem is not static.
Real player does that, because it is a piece of bloatware and every time it starts up it takes ages. So this little StartCenter keeps important parts loaded in memory so that your Real Player starts faster when you need it. The new Real Player takes like 40 megs when installed. I think it has a full msie5 browser subsystem to render all those cool (but pointless) things when you go to Top 5 picks and stuff like that. That is why when I can I use Windows Media player.
I think passive radars (that don't emit) are standard equipment on most fighter planes. You only need to illuminate a target (actually emit radio waves) when you start tracking it.
IIRC the Roman empire was the only superpower in its time and probably the only country worth counting and still it fell to a few thousand barbarian horsemen.
From what I've read, if you have a large distributed radar network (many radars all over the place, coordinated by a central computer), you have a high chance of tracking stealth planes like f117 and b2, because one radar's signal will get reflected in a different direction and may be caught by another radar. Also, stealth planes are as visible as ordinary fighters when they open their weapon bays to fire. There have been cases when the weapon bay jams open and then the f117 is basically a sitting duck.
They have to know your IP so that they can send you the reply packets. Otherwise you would not be able to browse the web at all.
Actually parallel lines intersect at infinity. Imagine how cluttered infinity must be then with all those lines meeting there.
My, my. What do you know? For years after it was built the engineers WERE Russian. Oh, by the way I am not worried at all. Also, European standard requires 16 mm thick lead (.66 inch) casing around the reactors. In ours, they installed 45 mm. That's a lot of lead.
I don't think they will be hit as hard as you think by Y2K, because their equipment is so low tech that usually it has no microchips that have date problems. Most factories probably use 60's technology which is Y2K bug free by default i.e. no computers at all. Sometimes low-tech is a good thing then.
I always wondered how would the water supply for example stop on Jan 1,00. What computer might possibly be controlling the water in the pipes and why would it depend on the date?
I remember reading a few years ago (in National Geographic magazine) that there was fish again in the lagunas of the Bikini atol. They were amazed that there would be life there so short after the nuclear experiments. And those were no core meltdowns but full fledged atimic bombs dropped on the island. So I am not surprised that Chernobyl is clean -- al the radioactive dust was blown away by winds and since the reactor was encased in concrete there is no more emission. Also, I would think that natural emissions from decay are much much less than those during a normal nuclear reaction Note: the fish in the Bikini atol were normal, i.e. no 4 mouths, human ears or anything of the sort.
We have a Chernobyl type nuclear plant with 6 reactors (4 of them exactly the same as those in Chernobyl) in my country . The European Union wants us to stop those reactors, because of "safety concerns". And when we stop them, they say they will sell us electricity. Obviously the reators are working at full power :-) Oh yeah, my country is Bulgaria by the way.
Actually it is not necessary for *all* bugs to be fixed for Release. IF there are some bugs that will not affect 99.9% of users and they are really hard to fix (i.e. major modifications)they might just be left alone. You can never fix all bugs
A GU Theory would have to describe the whole universe. And therefore it should explain the existance of humans and therefore deduce its own existance. Is it then at all possible to have such a theory? Deducing its own existance would break the incompleteness theorem and thus make the GUT incorrect.
Unfortunatrely gyros tend to fail after some time. That is why it has six of them and now four have failed. The Mir space station had the same problem, its gyros failed very frequently.
Actually Java can be fast. There are a few tricks and in general you have to keep things simple... At the place where I work we actually prototyped a Java version of something we already had for Windows in C++/ATL/COM and the Java version was faster (well, some functionality was lacking, but it was still quite fast).