Try TurboPascal. Its faster. On an 8088 with 9MHz TP programs execute way faster than QBASIC ones. In fact, they have a responsiveness and speed which modern applications on GUIs often lack.
And if that speed is not enough, use inline assembler. Thats faster still.
Replaced IE with Mozilla in the company I used to work for. Management wouldnt let me so I replaced the Mozilla icon with the blue E and installed Mozillas IE skin. Nobody realised that there was any difference, though management surfed on with IE.
And no, I wasnt fired for changing to Moz. I quit.
Maybe you you are a tetrachromat. As in: A human with 4 distinct color receptors on his/her retina. Most humans are trichromats. Most (if not all) tetrachromats are females.
I would agree with you here, if the question would not be how to build a database driven site "Quick".
For me a database driven site is complete if it is not vulnerable to sql-insertion attacks, does not fall appart if you change a bit of code in a random area and generally does not need human interaction.
To get there fast, it is a prerequisite to have programmed before. Otherwise your site will be food for hackers or worms.
This is just soooo plain wrong. is hardly what I call code-content seperation. I tried fasttemplate (normal and cached variant)
and found it fitting for the most part. If you need more complex setups it bails out... management becomes too complex.
You can get around that if you encapsulate the template library and build your own higher level libs.
Smarty on the other hand is quite powerful, uses PHP to parse its code and fulfills content code seperation.
1. Which language you use - be it Perl, php, whatever - is not important. Know the language you program in BEFORE you start the project! Almost all scripting languages have the database interfaces you need.
2. Encapsulate recurring themes like database selects, inserts and so on. Knowing your language helps. Balance abstractness against usability.
3. Use a (at least moderate flexible) template engine.
Then youre (almost) done.
In the last few years I used PHP and Perl. Both have their advantages and horrors. PHP is getting (even) better fast. Perl is quite nice if you know
it good, which could take a little time.
I only used MySQL and SQLite. MySQL with InnoDB is very reliable under heavy loads and huge datasets, but gets rather clumsy to back up and replicate. SQLite is blazingly fast, but I cannot say anything about reliability. I wont bet my crown-jewels on it (yet).
Does the Microwave push against the sail or does it heat the paint on the sail which causes the thrust by emitting the CO2 mentioned in TFA?
It does both. Photons do have a specific impulse which is proportional to the frequency of the photon. The higher the frequency the higher the impulse.
Heating effects also depend on frequency. Better: the resonant frequency. This is the frequency at which the system (in this case the paint) oscillates at the highest amplitude.
So if you use the right paint and the right frequency of your beam you can maximize both the impulse of the microwaves and the escape velocitiy of the heated paint. Then your acceleration will be at maximum.
In my opinion this theory is a classic case of BTWO (Beautiful theory, wrong universe).
Heim had also the problem that he publicised his papers via a german publisher of esoteric material, thus his reputation among physicists was and is still very low.
Recently a group dedicated to peer-reviewing his papers has formed, but this may take a long time as he also developed his own mathematical notation.
Until the peer-review is completed, any answer to your question is merely a good guess.
First, I dont think you are kidding. It is my opinion that porting debian (or any other distro) to the (still closed source) NT-Kernel is a total waste of time and effort. It would (at best) remain a niche-product. More likely the project would face legal threats from Microsoft.
And... by the way: SFU does not qualify as an OS.
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Humans have the tendency to develop hostility against anything thats not similar (genetically) to them.
If you create a human with hawk-eyes and smelly-skin prejudices against them will most likely arise. And the odds are - because this will be a conflict of 6 billion against only a few - that the new "super-humans" will not likely have a decent life.
If I were you, I would stop installing Maxtors. All Maxtor HDs I own (all of them!) are now dead. And I handled them witch care. All (whatever model) make repetitive noises when powered up. My Samsungs (which btw are very quiet) do not seem to have that problem.
a working delivery method convenient enough to be applied to a large population. Of course only if it is safe and has no detrimental effects on the patients and their offspring.
Nice would be a kind of non selfreproducing retro-virus which could (only) infect fertilized human egg cells and flick (only) that gene-switch.
All you would need then to apply the gene-therapy will be a load of viri and a syringe.
The human which will then be born will have a (artificial) inherent immunity to aids.
ps. This is only wishful thinking. I see this nowhere near ready for the next decade. The ethical (by any definition) debate will also be extremely ugly...
A friend of mine told me a story of a guy I also met once. Back in '94 he was a modem-freak and built a lot of silly things.
The most silly one had quite an impact. Somehow he managed to directly connect the RS232-Port of his motherboard to 220V AC. This resulted in a loud bang and his computer shaking. After opening the case he found that his CPU exploded and left a hole in the motherboard.
I never saw it nor heard it directly from him. Perhaps he is ashamed.;)
One day I built a computer for a friend of mine. I somehow managed to mess up the polarity of the leds or put it in the wrong socket. I started the box ( a 486DX4/133/w 32MB ) and instantly it started to run "unevenly", just like the RTC would fluctuate. Soon after bootup something smelt funny.
The Turbo-Switch was totally fried. Will never move again. Molten plastic filled out its interior. I figured a rather high current must have moved through it. That was a scary situation, but after removing all unused wiring to the frontpanel the box ran fine.
Seperate incident:
He had plugged a stoneage transistorradio into the line-in of the oh-so-good noname 16bit soundcard. I figured later that the impendance of the two devices were not compatible. The chip on the soundcard was fried and smelt rather funny too. It did not make any sound.
After I replaced the soundcard with a new one, all went fine. For about 6 years thereafter... then he sold it.
This has nothing to do in which circles I travel. These are my own personal views.
Look. You can not dismiss the threat of an impact as irrational. The risk and threat of such an event can be calculated, using the frequency and gravity of past events. You then have the means to compare this scenario to other threats and risks. Despite being low-risk (in recorded history no human alone was ever hit by a meteorite) the threat is not negligible because one past mass-extinction event may be assigned to such an impact.
Regarding your fears of the "Star Wars hustlers": The scenario of deflecting an asteroid/meteorite is somewhat different from that of erradicating a whole city from the surface of the earth, though I share your fear that if we ever achieve the ability to alter a course of an asteroid/meteorite that this can be used to threaten other nations. ("If you dont do what I say, I will drop this thing on your city.") At the current time, this is very far beyond our current capabilities.
My current position is this:
1. We need to achieve this capability. The faster, the better. (Or we become extinct.) 2. We need to come to a compromise of who should be in charge if it ever must be used. This is the hard part. This technology MUST be regulated by a trusted entity. 3. We need to further improve our knowledge about the positions, masses and trajectories of celestial bodys crossing the earth orbit. More funding has to be spent on solar system surveillance. 4. We must not allow that fear influences our decisions. There must be a way to save humanity from extinction.
Although many may say that these are far-fetched plans, I am strictly against a devil-may-care mentality in situations where the survival of the entire human race is at stake.
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Try TurboPascal. Its faster. On an 8088 with 9MHz TP programs execute way faster than QBASIC ones. In fact, they have a responsiveness and speed which modern applications on GUIs often lack.
And if that speed is not enough, use inline assembler. Thats faster still.
Replaced IE with Mozilla in the company I used to work for. Management wouldnt let me so I replaced the Mozilla icon with the blue E and installed Mozillas IE skin. Nobody realised that there was any difference, though management surfed on with IE.
And no, I wasnt fired for changing to Moz. I quit.
Maybe you you are a tetrachromat. As in: A human with 4 distinct color receptors on his/her retina.
Most humans are trichromats. Most (if not all) tetrachromats are females.
Look here: TetraChromat
ps. I had a very hard time telling those 2 colors apart, but could. I doubt I would have noticed if I
hadnt known beforehand.
I would agree with you here, if the question would
not be how to build a database driven site "Quick".
For me a database driven site is complete if it is
not vulnerable to sql-insertion attacks, does not
fall appart if you change a bit of code in a random
area and generally does not need human interaction.
To get there fast, it is a prerequisite to have
programmed before. Otherwise your site will be
food for hackers or worms.
This is just soooo plain wrong.
is hardly what I call code-content seperation.
I tried fasttemplate (normal and cached variant)
and found it fitting for the most part. If you
need more complex setups it bails out...
management becomes too complex.
You can get around that if you encapsulate the
template library and build your own higher level
libs.
Smarty on the other hand is quite powerful, uses
PHP to parse its code and fulfills content code
seperation.
1. Which language you use - be it Perl, php,
whatever - is not important. Know the language you
program in BEFORE you start the project! Almost
all scripting languages have the database interfaces
you need.
2. Encapsulate recurring themes like database
selects, inserts and so on. Knowing your language
helps. Balance abstractness against usability.
3. Use a (at least moderate flexible) template
engine.
Then youre (almost) done.
In the last few years I used PHP and Perl. Both
have their advantages and horrors. PHP is getting
(even) better fast. Perl is quite nice if you know
it good, which could take a little time.
I only used MySQL and SQLite. MySQL with InnoDB is
very reliable under heavy loads and huge datasets,
but gets rather clumsy to back up and replicate.
SQLite is blazingly fast, but I cannot say anything
about reliability. I wont bet my crown-jewels on
it (yet).
Anyway. Good luck.
It does both. Photons do have a specific impulse which is proportional to the frequency of the photon. The higher the frequency the higher the impulse.
Heating effects also depend on frequency. Better: the resonant frequency. This is the frequency at which the system (in this case the paint) oscillates at the highest amplitude.
So if you use the right paint and the right frequency of your beam you can maximize both the impulse of the microwaves and the escape velocitiy of the heated paint. Then your acceleration will be at maximum.
In my opinion this theory is a classic case of BTWO (Beautiful theory, wrong universe).
Heim had also the problem that he publicised his papers via a german publisher of esoteric material, thus his reputation among physicists was and is still very low.
Recently a group dedicated to peer-reviewing his papers has formed, but this may take a long time as he also developed his own mathematical notation.
Until the peer-review is completed, any answer to your question is merely a good guess.
First, I dont think you are kidding. It is my opinion that porting debian (or any other distro) to the (still closed source) NT-Kernel is a total
waste of time and effort. It would (at best) remain a niche-product. More likely the project would face legal threats from Microsoft.
And... by the way: SFU does not qualify as an OS.
Just as you think it could not get any weirder...
a way for BT to do the maths:
1. Arrest User
2. ?
3. Profit!
Humans have the tendency to develop hostility against
anything thats not similar (genetically) to them.
If you create a human with hawk-eyes and smelly-skin
prejudices against them will most likely arise. And
the odds are - because this will be a conflict of 6 billion
against only a few - that the new "super-humans" will
not likely have a decent life.
Of course you can compress it. Only a few bits of ASCII are used as Pi only consists of digits.
Thanks. Works nicely. Now I can do some more testing. The "Groups" are quite nice.
First thing I noticed was the absence of CTRL-L. Without that I cannot use any broser. Even IE has it (though clunky).
This may or may not be fixed via the obscure config files in preferences.
Furthermore there is no method of asking if setting specific cookies is ok.
Apart from that, it looks really good. They should polish the dialogboxes though. They look rather amateurish.
Some curious hacker will enable us to use the
cheapest cartridges anyway.
This may or may not void our guarantee.
Once the cartridge is empty we go to our local
refill-center and they reset the use-only-once
blocking-chip too.
So what.
but I wont shed a tear. Trek is worn out these days. Leave it be for a few years and pick it up again later. Worked for TNG.
:-)
Speak of sustainable franchise.
If I were you, I would stop installing Maxtors. All Maxtor HDs I own (all of them!) are now dead. And I handled them witch care. All (whatever model) make repetitive noises when powered up. My Samsungs (which btw are very quiet) do not seem to have that problem.
a working delivery method convenient enough to be
applied to a large population. Of course only if
it is safe and has no detrimental effects on the
patients and their offspring.
Nice would be a kind of non selfreproducing
retro-virus which could (only) infect fertilized
human egg cells and flick (only) that gene-switch.
All you would need then to apply the gene-therapy
will be a load of viri and a syringe.
The human which will then be born will have a
(artificial) inherent immunity to aids.
ps. This is only wishful thinking. I see this
nowhere near ready for the next decade. The
ethical (by any definition) debate will also be
extremely ugly...
A friend of mine told me a story of a guy I also met once. Back in '94 he was a modem-freak and built a lot of silly things.
;)
The most silly one had quite an impact. Somehow he managed to directly connect the RS232-Port of his motherboard to 220V AC. This resulted in a loud bang and his computer shaking. After opening the case he found that his CPU exploded and left a hole in the motherboard.
I never saw it nor heard it directly from him. Perhaps he is ashamed.
One day I built a computer for a friend of mine. I somehow managed to mess up the polarity of the leds or put it in the wrong socket. I started the box ( a 486DX4/133 /w 32MB ) and instantly it started to run "unevenly", just like the RTC would fluctuate. Soon after bootup something smelt funny.
The Turbo-Switch was totally fried. Will never move again. Molten plastic filled out its interior. I figured a rather high current must have moved through it. That was a scary situation, but after removing all unused wiring to the frontpanel the box ran fine.
Seperate incident:
He had plugged a stoneage transistorradio into the line-in of the oh-so-good noname 16bit soundcard. I figured later that the impendance of the two devices were not compatible. The chip on the soundcard was fried and smelt rather funny too. It did not make any sound.
After I replaced the soundcard with a new one, all went fine. For about 6 years thereafter... then he sold it.
Take the RPMs from mysql.com. They are really stable and work as expected.
This has nothing to do in which circles I travel. These are my own personal views.
Look. You can not dismiss the threat of an impact as irrational. The risk and threat of such an event can be calculated, using the frequency and gravity of past events. You then have the means to compare this scenario to other threats and risks. Despite being low-risk (in recorded history no human alone was ever hit by a meteorite) the threat is not negligible because one past mass-extinction event may be assigned to such an impact.
Regarding your fears of the "Star Wars hustlers": The scenario of deflecting an asteroid/meteorite is somewhat different from that of erradicating a whole city from the surface of the earth, though I share your fear that if we ever achieve the ability to alter a course of an asteroid/meteorite that this can be used to threaten other nations. ("If you dont do what I say, I will drop this thing on your city.") At the current time, this is very far beyond our current capabilities.
My current position is this:
1. We need to achieve this capability. The faster, the better. (Or we become extinct.)
2. We need to come to a compromise of who should be in charge if it ever must be used. This is the hard part. This technology MUST be regulated by a trusted entity.
3. We need to further improve our knowledge about the positions, masses and trajectories of celestial bodys crossing the earth orbit. More funding has to be spent on solar system surveillance.
4. We must not allow that fear influences our decisions. There must be a way to save humanity from extinction.
Although many may say that these are far-fetched plans, I am strictly against a devil-may-care mentality in situations where the survival of the entire human race is at stake.
Internet stands for "Interconnected Networks".
You talk about odds and probabilities. What you confuse is risk and threat.
A personal risk can not be evaluated on the same basis as a general threat.
An impact of an extraterrestrial body is widely regarded a general threat to our very existence.