... and thought to myself, "$500 would build you one hell of a Spirograph, but your older brother is still just going to throw the gears at you like a ninja star."
You aren't quite recalling your orbital mechanics correctly. A burn in the direction of your orbit will increase the altitude on the opposite side of the orbit. A burn in the opposite direction (retrograde) will reduce the altitude on the other side.
I can't remember how much core we have left, but rest assured that we have plenty of room to fix bugs. And since we are in the process of replacing the display system with one that does most of its own processing, we are freeing up a large amount of data and code space.
Keep in mind that our patches are usually measured in 16 bit half-words in the single digits.
Actually, the old AP101 computers may have had 64k of memory (I don't recall). We upgraded those bad boys a long time ago to AP101S which have a whopping 256k. Who could ask for anything more.
FYI: That extra bump in memory allowed us to store the entire Entry program in upper memory so that in the event of a Trans-Atlantic abort, we wouldn't have to wait 20 seconds for it to load from the mass memory.
People who call themselves agnostic are just lazy. They say that they believe that there must be some higher power, but the just don't know what it is yet.
I would theorize that they have not taken the time to really think things through and that they are actually waiting to make a death bed conversion so that they can enjoy life in the mean time.
Some bugs should (unless you're coding Space Shuttle Software) never be fixed; The hazzle they cause for some users will never justify the cost of fixing the bugs.
Actually, we do leave some bugs in the Shuttle software for exactly that reason. Characters on the display that are shifted over one position. Errors that are three failures deep that will cause a 0.001 degree error on a display-only function.
Most of the time we will write a user note for these bugs.
It's kind of like the saying: "There's no such thing as minor surgery."
Yes, we use formal methods to design the programs before we start to write anything. We are an SEI Level 5 shop, but most of you guys would hate to program for us. Once the requirements are approved, the programmer has virtually no freedom. However, the programmers are intimately involved with the requirements review process. Half of us involved in producing the Shuttle Flight Software have never written a single actual line of code at the terminal.
For instance, I was reviewing some code a few months ago that said to compute an array of three vectors. Well, we were actually only going to use the third element of each array, so the developer only stored the third elements.
That was OK, but we also ended up documenting that in the detailed design spec, which is thousands of pages in itself.
Most desktop apps can't afford our process and probably don't need it. Embedded software in avionics equipment probably do need this process and can't afford not to use it (I don't know if they all do).
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"... they've taken away the little icon that used to be bottom left of the screen that would give quick access to the desktop."
To minimize all open winodws, press WindowsKey+M. To restore all windows, press WindowsKey+Shift+M. I use Win2k, so I'm not completely sure that this will work in XP.
P.S. To open Explorer, press WindowsKey+E. There's got to be more that I don't know about.
This is the price we pay for "free" tv. If you don't want ads, you're going to have to pay for it, because no network CEO is thinking, "let's make shows for free!"
Then would they care to explain what they have been doing with the $40.00 a month I have been paying for cable.
Or how about the damn Powerade commercial in front of my $7.25 showing of Blackhawk Down?
Actually, I'm not a complete moron (wait... now that you pointed it out so eloquently, maybe I am), I just didn't totally think through my post. I won't take the insults personally.
Replay will grab two weeks of channels at a time and they usually don't change that late in the game, so I've done OK until now.
The real reason I don't plug it in more than once a week is that it is across the room from the outlet. I really do need to get it plugged in constantly because then I can use the web-based remote control.
The main point of my post was to point out the hypocrisy (and possibly their disregard for common courtesy) of some of the users of the venerable Linux.
Here's a loophole in response to the commercial sponsors complaints.
I have a ReplayTV and use the 30 second skip when watching football games. When the whistle blows to end the play, hit it once and they are ready to snap the ball again.
I work in the Flight Software (FSW) Verification group in Houston.
The shuttle FSW code is written in something called HAL/S. This stands for High-level Assembly Language / Shuttle. The language was designed to read like mathematics is written. Superscripts like vector bars are actually displayed on the line above, subscripts like indices are displayed on the line below. Vectors and matrices can be operated on naturally, without looping.
We are the only ones with a compiler, because we wrote it ourselves.
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Yes! Twilight Zone kicked ass. My personal best involved having to skip class because the game went too long; I got "into the zone" twice in one game.
... tempting.
A local place can get one for me and refurbish it for $3500
... and thought to myself, "$500 would build you one hell of a Spirograph, but your older brother is still just going to throw the gears at you like a ninja star."
While you're at it, check out Lucy Liu's eyes. Where the hell is she looking? You just can't tell.
What does the copy of DVDXCopy that I saw a Best Buy yesterday not do that the pre-court-ruling version did?
The box says, Put in a DVD, put in a blank, watch movie.
They were only 81 seconds into flight when the foam broke off. Plenty of air there.
You aren't quite recalling your orbital mechanics correctly. A burn in the direction of your orbit will increase the altitude on the opposite side of the orbit. A burn in the opposite direction (retrograde) will reduce the altitude on the other side.
Actually, I believe that was Helen Lovejoy.
I can't remember how much core we have left, but rest assured that we have plenty of room to fix bugs. And since we are in the process of replacing the display system with one that does most of its own processing, we are freeing up a large amount of data and code space.
Keep in mind that our patches are usually measured in 16 bit half-words in the single digits.
Actually, the old AP101 computers may have had 64k of memory (I don't recall). We upgraded those bad boys a long time ago to AP101S which have a whopping 256k. Who could ask for anything more.
FYI: That extra bump in memory allowed us to store the entire Entry program in upper memory so that in the event of a Trans-Atlantic abort, we wouldn't have to wait 20 seconds for it to load from the mass memory.
People who call themselves agnostic are just lazy. They say that they believe that there must be some higher power, but the just don't know what it is yet.
I would theorize that they have not taken the time to really think things through and that they are actually waiting to make a death bed conversion so that they can enjoy life in the mean time.
Some bugs should (unless you're coding Space Shuttle Software) never be fixed; The hazzle they cause for some users will never justify the cost of fixing the bugs.
Actually, we do leave some bugs in the Shuttle software for exactly that reason. Characters on the display that are shifted over one position. Errors that are three failures deep that will cause a 0.001 degree error on a display-only function.
Most of the time we will write a user note for these bugs.
It's kind of like the saying: "There's no such thing as minor surgery."
Yes, we use formal methods to design the programs before we start to write anything. We are an SEI Level 5 shop, but most of you guys would hate to program for us. Once the requirements are approved, the programmer has virtually no freedom. However, the programmers are intimately involved with the requirements review process. Half of us involved in producing the Shuttle Flight Software have never written a single actual line of code at the terminal.
For instance, I was reviewing some code a few months ago that said to compute an array of three vectors. Well, we were actually only going to use the third element of each array, so the developer only stored the third elements.
That was OK, but we also ended up documenting that in the detailed design spec, which is thousands of pages in itself.
Most desktop apps can't afford our process and probably don't need it. Embedded software in avionics equipment probably do need this process and can't afford not to use it (I don't know if they all do).
To minimize all open winodws, press WindowsKey+M. To restore all windows, press WindowsKey+Shift+M. I use Win2k, so I'm not completely sure that this will work in XP.
P.S. To open Explorer, press WindowsKey+E. There's got to be more that I don't know about.
Then would they care to explain what they have been doing with the $40.00 a month I have been paying for cable.
Or how about the damn Powerade commercial in front of my $7.25 showing of Blackhawk Down?
Actually, I'm not a complete moron (wait ... now that you pointed it out so eloquently, maybe I am), I just didn't totally think through my post. I won't take the insults personally.
Replay will grab two weeks of channels at a time and they usually don't change that late in the game, so I've done OK until now.
The real reason I don't plug it in more than once a week is that it is across the room from the outlet. I really do need to get it plugged in constantly because then I can use the web-based remote control.
The main point of my post was to point out the hypocrisy (and possibly their disregard for common courtesy) of some of the users of the venerable Linux.
Don't you get it? It's OK to track what people are watching as long as it runs Linux. And hey, if they say that you can opt out, I believe them.
That's one reason why I have a ReplayTV 3030 that only gets plugged into a phoneline when I need the channel guide updated.
Here's a loophole in response to the commercial sponsors complaints.
I have a ReplayTV and use the 30 second skip when watching football games. When the whistle blows to end the play, hit it once and they are ready to snap the ball again.
I work in the Flight Software (FSW) Verification group in Houston.
The shuttle FSW code is written in something called HAL/S. This stands for High-level Assembly Language / Shuttle. The language was designed to read like mathematics is written. Superscripts like vector bars are actually displayed on the line above, subscripts like indices are displayed on the line below. Vectors and matrices can be operated on naturally, without looping.
We are the only ones with a compiler, because we wrote it ourselves.
Here's a sample:
EXAMPLE:
PROGRAM;
DECLARE A(12) SCALAR;
DECLAREB ARRAY(12) INTEGER INITIAL(0);
DECLARE SCALE ARRAY(3) CONSTANT(0.013, 0.026,0.013);
DECLARE BIAS SCALAR INITIAL(57.296);
DO FOR TEMPORARY I = 0 TO 9 BY 3;
DO FOR TEMPORARY J = 1 TO 3;
A =B SCALE + BIAS;
I+J I+J J
END;
END;
CLOSE EXAMPLE;
I couldn't get the subscripts to line up, but you get the idea.