yes, but it's also at lower speeds, too. I'm making the *very* coarse assumption of speed being roughly the same at a given altitude on takeoff and reentry, even though it's only correct at altitudes of 0 and orbit. Given thismassive shot of speed, there should be more total friction on this type of launch than reentry.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need that, pay a properly licensed attorney
>It is important for law enforcement to have the
>tools at their disposal to be able to properly
>investigate crime and gather evidence.
yes, but this is largely a procedural issue. THere *was* judicial oversight, and there definitely *will be* judicial oversight.
The question is as to the *form* the oversight should take. A very simple look over the shoulder, such a as a warrant, or the higher standard we use with a more intrusive wiretap. In *some* way there will be judicial approval. the question is how.
>They're still paying $40/month for
>their Dell to do their finances on. These people
>could really benefit by a more stable underlying
>OS, that has roots in open source.
If they're *that* tight, they'd do even better with a pad of paper and pencil for the finances, skipping the computer entirely, and putting the $40 (and $20 for ISP) each month to paying off the credit cards, which they should cutup . . .
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you get your legal advice from slashdot, you probably also hold hot coffee between your thighs and sue when you get burned. Besides, I still can't see the problem.
I can certainly see how "Lindows" would clearly infringe on a trademark of "Windows." But my recollection, from several years ago, was that microsoft was quite clear that the claimed trademark was for "Microsoft Windows," not "Windows," both because a simple windows trademark would have infringed on others, and because it was a term already in common usage for, uhhh, windowing on a microcomputer screen.
So I remain baffled as to what trademark is at issue--I see no chance that someone confuses "Lindows" and "Microsoft Windows"--unless someone is claiming that "Windows" is not common usage, which would undermine the trademark anyway . . .
Lose the expensive football or men's basketball coach, or the jock's for those sports, and watch tuition go up. Programs that pay coaches like that generate tons of revenue for the university.
Why athletic scholarships exist in other sports, though, at schools without academic scholarships, is beyond me . . .
Who came up with this, PETA? Or even more militant vegetarians (the "extremist pro-mammal group" from _The Freshman_?)
Think of the consequences. Who lives by the barbed wire?
That's right, the cows. The ones we eat. And what do cows produce?
Right again, *staggering* quantities of methane. Now think a second. Suppose you're a cow. You can't be *all* that thrilled about your future prospects (unless, of course, you're a dairy cow). So you start thinking slow cow thoughts between transferring your cud between stomachs. But it eventually comes to you.
If they can send ethernet over the barbed wire, how much harder can it be to send *methane*. As they work it out, the first signs will be press reports about herds of cattle charging barbed wire fences backwards. The second wave will be the explosions in switchboxes and phone relay centers. But once they have the bugs worked out, every farmhouse in the United States will be destroyed in a matter of days! What will we eat! Stop trnasmission over barbed wire NOW!
I was away from usenet from 85 until 94. As near as I can tell, those newsgroups were carrying on the exact same arguments as when I left, with different people repeating the same lines. creation/evolution, abortion, the heinlein flamewars, etc.
The "Imminent Death of Usenet" *did* happen after the perpetual december, but a few newsgroups survived, and there's still a couple of places for us, uhh, dinosaurs. I'd mention them by name, but not here:)
btw, it seems your wish was granted with the friend/foe system . . .
>But on all North-Americal telephone systems, the # sign is called "pound".
You're calling the octothorpe a "pound?" *shudder*. Report to a reeducation center at once! They'll also force you to move your punctuation back inside the quotation marks so that the paper doesn't tear when stuck with the printing press . . .:)
search through archives of alt.folklore.computers.
It's not done often,and not with modern fortran compilers, because it's generally a dumb idea:)
You can accomplish anything in either C or Fortran. That doesn't make them equally good choices for all situations.
For example, it is possible to hand-optimize C to get speed equivalent to Fortran. But why bother? For fortranny applications, the fortran code is generally shorter and quicker to write, even before the optimization. I found about 3:1 in time a couple of years back. And that only gives you the initial code; now you get to hand-optimize.
On the other hand, part of what makes Fortran faster in the first place are the very things it leaves out, allowing the optimizer to make stronger assumptions. This generally isn't a limitation when smashing matrices into one another, but the OS folks would be horrified not to have these.
Use the right tool for the right job.[1] A high level language such has fortran has no serious need to compile itself. But a language that claims to be appropriate for writing compilers and operating systems had damn-well better be able to compile itself. [and as another post hints, a Cobol compiler that could compile itself just might be scary . ..]
hawk
[1] Two caveats:
I) If force isn't solving your problem, you didn't use enough.
II) If Windows is the answer, you asked the wrong question.
Yes, another type of scoring system would be nice. I'm getting closser and closer to giving up slashdot enitely by the day . . .
But then, I've never gotten around to figuring out trn scoring, either:) I'm sure there's a man page *somewhere*, but it's become well hidden since strn was folded into trn . . . and someday, I'll find out what happened to the "p" command in rn . . .
I used a scored newsreader on a mac for a while,which would let me flag people with insane adjustments, but the rest of the newsreader meant it was still easier to telnet to unix and use trn:)
I toy at time with a bbs-like system, modeled after those, but organized in rings. The whole world could see and join the outer ring, while each succeeding inner ring would be joined by invitation . . . I'm interested in as much to see how it would as for participation, wondering if it might restore the environment of old usenet (which was partially captured by a small fraction of the bbs's)
yet another 14 year old moderator who doesn't remember the perpetual december . . .
for the younger folks: the grandparent post was a joke. Once AOL connected to usenet, there were some clueless statements, but even more trolls like the above. They would invariable end up swarmed with posts with nothing more than "me too" from aol.com addresses. Some offered porn, with instructions to post the request. Others offered improbable upgrades, such as impossible compression or speed, or, as the above pointed to, vcr or sattellite "enabling" for pay channels.
But this is several years later than the one I'm talking about. There was something like this around '84 or '86. These guys didn't start tell several years later.
. . . one of the early mac programs. I want to say that it was one of Lotus' failed offerings, but that description of making and interconnecting regions sure sounds like it . . .
also, please note that currency boards are used when the government has already abused the currency, typically after long hyperinflations. Dollarization would generally better meet the intended objectives, though without assistance from the U.S. (accepting the old currency as whatever fraction of a dollar, and trading) it may be impractical to obtain enough dollars.
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hawk
>It is important for law enforcement to have the
>tools at their disposal to be able to properly
>investigate crime and gather evidence.
yes, but this is largely a procedural issue. THere *was* judicial oversight, and there definitely *will be* judicial oversight.
The question is as to the *form* the oversight should take. A very simple look over the shoulder, such a as a warrant, or the higher standard we use with a more intrusive wiretap. In *some* way there will be judicial approval. the question is how.
hawk
I use lynx. At the moment, I'm forced into netscape, as the current version of lynx won't access its stored cookies.
When I have to use netscape frequently, I switch to 3.0 rather than 4.0.
No, *please* don't assume us to use the browser of the week.
hawk
hawk
>their Dell to do their finances on. These people
>could really benefit by a more stable underlying
>OS, that has roots in open source.
If they're *that* tight, they'd do even better with a pad of paper and pencil for the finances, skipping the computer entirely, and putting the $40 (and $20 for ISP) each month to paying off the credit cards, which they should cutup . . .
hawk
I can certainly see how "Lindows" would clearly infringe on a trademark of "Windows." But my recollection, from several years ago, was that microsoft was quite clear that the claimed trademark was for "Microsoft Windows," not "Windows," both because a simple windows trademark would have infringed on others, and because it was a term already in common usage for, uhhh, windowing on a microcomputer screen.
So I remain baffled as to what trademark is at issue--I see no chance that someone confuses "Lindows" and "Microsoft Windows"--unless someone is claiming that "Windows" is not common usage, which would undermine the trademark anyway . . .
hawk
i dunno, but the one in chains is really one I'd rather avoid . . .
:)
hawk
>at sea-level would be tremendous indeed!
and suspiciously similar to reentry
hawk
Why athletic scholarships exist in other sports, though, at schools without academic scholarships, is beyond me . . .
hawk
So it's only 2000 feet after the fence rusts?
hawk
Think of the consequences. Who lives by the barbed wire?
That's right, the cows. The ones we eat. And what do cows produce?
Right again, *staggering* quantities of methane. Now think a second. Suppose you're a cow. You can't be *all* that thrilled about your future prospects (unless, of course, you're a dairy cow). So you start thinking slow cow thoughts between transferring your cud between stomachs. But it eventually comes to you.
If they can send ethernet over the barbed wire, how much harder can it be to send *methane*. As they work it out, the first signs will be press reports about herds of cattle charging barbed wire fences backwards. The second wave will be the explosions in switchboxes and phone relay centers. But once they have the bugs worked out, every farmhouse in the United States will be destroyed in a matter of days! What will we eat! Stop trnasmission over barbed wire NOW!
hawk
>robots to get fiber to the basements
>of buildings, and then use the existing
>cat-
Yeah, like that's going to work. Little thing crawls out and runs around with a string, and you think the cat won't attack???
:)
hawk
The "Imminent Death of Usenet" *did* happen after the perpetual december, but a few newsgroups survived, and there's still a couple of places for us, uhh, dinosaurs. I'd mention them by name, but not here
btw, it seems your wish was granted with the friend/foe system . . .
hawk
You're calling the octothorpe a "pound?" *shudder*. Report to a reeducation center at once! They'll also force you to move your punctuation back inside the quotation marks so that the paper doesn't tear when stuck with the printing press . . .
hawk
It's not done often,and not with modern fortran compilers, because it's generally a dumb idea
You can accomplish anything in either C or Fortran. That doesn't make them equally good choices for all situations.
For example, it is possible to hand-optimize C to get speed equivalent to Fortran. But why bother? For fortranny applications, the fortran code is generally shorter and quicker to write, even before the optimization. I found about 3:1 in time a couple of years back. And that only gives you the initial code; now you get to hand-optimize.
On the other hand, part of what makes Fortran faster in the first place are the very things it leaves out, allowing the optimizer to make stronger assumptions. This generally isn't a limitation when smashing matrices into one another, but the OS folks would be horrified not to have these.
Use the right tool for the right job.[1] A high level language such has fortran has no serious need to compile itself. But a language that claims to be appropriate for writing compilers and operating systems had damn-well better be able to compile itself. [and as another post hints, a Cobol compiler that could compile itself just might be scary . .
hawk
[1] Two caveats:
I) If force isn't solving your problem, you didn't use enough.
II) If Windows is the answer, you asked the wrong question.
>against posting.
It's generally necessary to correctly spell *both* a name and a password to log in before posting. THus, about every six months, Taco succeeds
[*duck*]
hawk
>Note: Who you like and dislike is not private; it
>can and will be used against you.
That's nuttin'. Used against you by a snivelling 14 year old? Big deal.
Slashdot Friend/Foe system is insignifcant compared to an F-14's Interrogate Friend/Foe system. Now *that's* one you don't want used against you.
hawk
But then, I've never gotten around to figuring out trn scoring, either
I used a scored newsreader on a mac for a while,which would let me flag people with insane adjustments, but the rest of the newsreader meant it was still easier to telnet to unix and use trn
I toy at time with a bbs-like system, modeled after those, but organized in rings. The whole world could see and join the outer ring, while each succeeding inner ring would be joined by invitation . . . I'm interested in as much to see how it would as for participation, wondering if it might restore the environment of old usenet (which was partially captured by a small fraction of the bbs's)
hawk
for the younger folks: the grandparent post was a joke. Once AOL connected to usenet, there were some clueless statements, but even more trolls like the above. They would invariable end up swarmed with posts with nothing more than "me too" from aol.com addresses. Some offered porn, with instructions to post the request. Others offered improbable upgrades, such as impossible compression or speed, or, as the above pointed to, vcr or sattellite "enabling" for pay channels.
hawk
hawk
also, that's not the original man page; it refers to coming from nvi/nex.
besides, man page entries from that era which refer to modes within vi rather than vi being a mode of ex are just plain wrong
hawk
Why not? Don't you use any?
[*duck*]
hawk, who bought the last pair of quality microsoft products: word 5.1 and excel 4
ok, first you may need to "cd
I dunno if it's in the packages yet.
hawk
hawk
hawk, economist