The next launch of a Bigelow module will be BEAM on CRS-8 in late 2015, but it's only 4 meters across and will mostly be unused with its hatch shut, other than to check every now and then that it's still okay, then eventually jettisoned.
SpaceX is still going to be lifting people to Bigelow's inflatable stations. They're basically already committed to manned spaceflight, NASA or not. But flying NASA to ISS would certainly help with their cash flow.
does SpaceX have capacity to make spaceships in quantity?
I'm pretty sure they've been ramping up production capacity this year. However, that's rocket production capacity (still important) with the current new F9 design, of which one of the goals was production capacity because of all the satellites they need to launch.
So how much production capacity would manned launches to ISS need? They do four missions a year, four launches a year, hence four capsules a year. As NASA requires a brand new capsule for every mission, they have to actually build four of them a year. (But that's also that many less capsules they need to build for non-NASA missions if they reuse the ISS mission capsules.)
Ah yes, now I remember the rest of the story... I seem to recall that a few weeks later I got a good deal on a Power Computing Power Tower Pro, which was a quite nice clone (except that 8.0 locked up all the time, so I downgraded to 7.6 until 8.1 came out), and that's what motivated me to sell the 4400. I hadn't really had the 4400 long enough to know just how bad it was. I kept the PTP as my main non-laptop long enough to get it running (actually more like walking) OS X. I long ago downgraded it to 9.x for when I need the retro (floppies and SCSI), and it's been a few years since I last powered it up.
The PTP basically let me hunker down during Apple's worst years of the PPC, the pre-G3 years.
But there were still some pretty bad models sold without the Performa mark of crapulence. I once got a Power Mac 4400, one of the ten worst Macs ever, from a CompUSSR and realized how bad it was, so a few weeks later I sold it to a friend. I still feel bad about that.
So tl;dr: Beads have a coating that attaches to bad stuff. Beads are also magnets and can be pulled out along with the bad stuff by a big magnet.
If the beads themselves are magnets (rather than just being attracted by magnets), they can also attach to each other to clump up on bad stuff better. (This is implied by the microscopic photo.)
Wasn't Doom released in the era of the 25MHz 486 with 1-4 megs of RAM and 640x480 VGA with no acceleration? It probably helps if the screen is only 320x240 QVGA. It depends on which CPU is in use, but something designed to print a full page at 150-ish DPI should have more than enough RAM and CPU. The front panel alone has 2 megabytes of RAM, and a 45MHz LVDS interface for display data, as per its recent hackaday appearance:
The current version of the game will not run on OS X older than 10.9 because they now use some advanced features of OpenGL that will lock up the graphics card on older versions of OS X. Their official workaround is "upgrade to 10.9".
FWIW, some places now request your postal zip code as a sort-of PIN, particularly unattended pay-at-the-pump gasoline. At first it sounds silly, but when you think about it, if someone scammed your credit card number by swiping the card track data, or out of a database, they're not likely to have your zip code too. (I suppose if they intercepted the zip-as-PIN they would have it, so hopefully it goes down the same encrypted route as debit PINs.)
If someone stole your wallet, sure, they would have your zip code, but at least then you would know that your card was missing.
For me one of the most annoyingly strange things about Perl is the post-if. (apparently the official name is "Statement Modifiers") You can do something like "statement if (condition); WHY? They just tend to make it harder to read the code flow.
A lot of strange things in Perl have explanations in its origins, where it merges grep/sed/awk style with sh/ksh/bash style and C style, but I have no idea where post-if came from, unless it was just stunt programming. ("Hey, look at this, I put the if at the end of the statement!")
Well, whether ';' is a statement terminator (like in C) or a statement separator is one thing.
But Javascript takes it to a whole new level. You can decide not to put them in, and if you break your lines a certain way, you may get the effect of a semicolon where you didn't expect one. And this is part of the language specification.
So, in other words, it's just like the new 'auto' keyword from C++, except that C++ re-used an existing keyword so that people who had variables named 'var' wouldn't have to change their code?
I didn't read it in much detail, but apparently it's merely there so that they have a policy. And apparently it's intended to give the complainers hoops to jump until the subject of the complaint is auto-expired anyhow.
You do know that all 4chan threads auto-expire, usually within an hour or two, sometimes a day or two if carefully bumped, right? DMCA basically says remove THAT item. Sure, bro, just a minute... oh look it's gone now!
A recent change allowed threads on some boards (well, I only know/a/ does) to auto-archive on expire, which lets a thread hang around un-indexed for another two days or so. This is great when you have to go somewhere for a few hours, just leave the thread up and you can catch the rest of it when you get back. But eventually even those threads vanish into the primordial ooze like a zero-point energy of social media.
There are also external sites which archive threads, but that's not 4chan's problem with regards to the DMCA.
I've got about half a dozen USR Courier modems stashed away, probably the best analog modem ever made. At least one I got new (it has the sysop price deal nameplate riveted on it), and a few I found cheap at thrift stores back in the late '90s. I wonder how well they would work with my UVerse VoIP setup. If the VoIP tries to use a full 56K/64K ISDN-B bandwidth, it might even work very well. Maybe if I ever find a phone number of something to dial I'll try it someday.
I've got a red WE2500 phone, because cold war hotline, fuck yeah. Somewhere I also have one I found that had an arabic keypad. But alas, my hard voice line is gone, replaced by UVerse VoIP. On the other hand, at least now I get CNID for free. I refused to pay 2 bucks a month extra for that all these years.
...and if your server goes away and you get another server, you can move the offline copy of your old mail to your new server. Some of my oldest e-mails are from when I was using Outlook on Mac OS 8 or so. I was able to use IMAP to move them to newer servers.
I also have a bunch of old AOL messages, but I had to go to great lengths to decode their "cabinet" format (which was a total WTF) to extract them.
It is still a long-term goal of mine to use a microcontroller to make a USB Model M.
Yes, I know you can buy new keyboards with USB interfaces, made by the same people. Or that you can get a PS2/USB converter. It's not the same as having a genuine surplus Model M with a native USB interface.
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The next launch of a Bigelow module will be BEAM on CRS-8 in late 2015, but it's only 4 meters across and will mostly be unused with its hatch shut, other than to check every now and then that it's still okay, then eventually jettisoned.
The "real" one doesn't go up until 2016.
SpaceX is still going to be lifting people to Bigelow's inflatable stations. They're basically already committed to manned spaceflight, NASA or not. But flying NASA to ISS would certainly help with their cash flow.
does SpaceX have capacity to make spaceships in quantity?
I'm pretty sure they've been ramping up production capacity this year. However, that's rocket production capacity (still important) with the current new F9 design, of which one of the goals was production capacity because of all the satellites they need to launch.
So how much production capacity would manned launches to ISS need? They do four missions a year, four launches a year, hence four capsules a year. As NASA requires a brand new capsule for every mission, they have to actually build four of them a year. (But that's also that many less capsules they need to build for non-NASA missions if they reuse the ISS mission capsules.)
Ah yes, now I remember the rest of the story... I seem to recall that a few weeks later I got a good deal on a Power Computing Power Tower Pro, which was a quite nice clone (except that 8.0 locked up all the time, so I downgraded to 7.6 until 8.1 came out), and that's what motivated me to sell the 4400. I hadn't really had the 4400 long enough to know just how bad it was. I kept the PTP as my main non-laptop long enough to get it running (actually more like walking) OS X. I long ago downgraded it to 9.x for when I need the retro (floppies and SCSI), and it's been a few years since I last powered it up.
The PTP basically let me hunker down during Apple's worst years of the PPC, the pre-G3 years.
One word: Performa
But there were still some pretty bad models sold without the Performa mark of crapulence. I once got a Power Mac 4400, one of the ten worst Macs ever, from a CompUSSR and realized how bad it was, so a few weeks later I sold it to a friend. I still feel bad about that.
Toxin are released by bacteria not virus, and antibiotic do diddly squat against virus, they are used against bacteria.
The original article gets this right. You were expecting a clickbait peddler like IBT to even copypasta it correctly?
So tl;dr: Beads have a coating that attaches to bad stuff. Beads are also magnets and can be pulled out along with the bad stuff by a big magnet.
If the beads themselves are magnets (rather than just being attracted by magnets), they can also attach to each other to clump up on bad stuff better. (This is implied by the microscopic photo.)
I'm quite surprised at IBT's lack of knowledge.
You must be new here.
Wasn't Doom released in the era of the 25MHz 486 with 1-4 megs of RAM and 640x480 VGA with no acceleration? It probably helps if the screen is only 320x240 QVGA. It depends on which CPU is in use, but something designed to print a full page at 150-ish DPI should have more than enough RAM and CPU. The front panel alone has 2 megabytes of RAM, and a 45MHz LVDS interface for display data, as per its recent hackaday appearance:
http://hackaday.com/2014/09/11...
The game abuses OpenGL.
The current version of the game will not run on OS X older than 10.9 because they now use some advanced features of OpenGL that will lock up the graphics card on older versions of OS X. Their official workaround is "upgrade to 10.9".
FWIW, some places now request your postal zip code as a sort-of PIN, particularly unattended pay-at-the-pump gasoline. At first it sounds silly, but when you think about it, if someone scammed your credit card number by swiping the card track data, or out of a database, they're not likely to have your zip code too. (I suppose if they intercepted the zip-as-PIN they would have it, so hopefully it goes down the same encrypted route as debit PINs.)
If someone stole your wallet, sure, they would have your zip code, but at least then you would know that your card was missing.
I think I went once or twice during those months, but I can't remember if I used my card or fed twenties into the self-service checkout.
In the context of "so cash", wouldn't cash be an adjective?
For me one of the most annoyingly strange things about Perl is the post-if. (apparently the official name is "Statement Modifiers") You can do something like "statement if (condition); WHY? They just tend to make it harder to read the code flow.
A lot of strange things in Perl have explanations in its origins, where it merges grep/sed/awk style with sh/ksh/bash style and C style, but I have no idea where post-if came from, unless it was just stunt programming. ("Hey, look at this, I put the if at the end of the statement!")
I think the even more crazy part is that this language feature (and others, fwiw) can be disabled by code written in the same language. Yep, just include a few blocks of code, and the basic features of your programming language change.
Grrrr, I meant to say "statement separator (like in Pascal)"
Anyhow, if you prefer to not religiously bracket your if/else conditions, the behavior of semicolons in your language can cause problems.
Well, whether ';' is a statement terminator (like in C) or a statement separator is one thing.
But Javascript takes it to a whole new level. You can decide not to put them in, and if you break your lines a certain way, you may get the effect of a semicolon where you didn't expect one. And this is part of the language specification.
So, in other words, it's just like the new 'auto' keyword from C++, except that C++ re-used an existing keyword so that people who had variables named 'var' wouldn't have to change their code?
I didn't read it in much detail, but apparently it's merely there so that they have a policy. And apparently it's intended to give the complainers hoops to jump until the subject of the complaint is auto-expired anyhow.
You do know that all 4chan threads auto-expire, usually within an hour or two, sometimes a day or two if carefully bumped, right? DMCA basically says remove THAT item. Sure, bro, just a minute... oh look it's gone now!
A recent change allowed threads on some boards (well, I only know /a/ does) to auto-archive on expire, which lets a thread hang around un-indexed for another two days or so. This is great when you have to go somewhere for a few hours, just leave the thread up and you can catch the rest of it when you get back. But eventually even those threads vanish into the primordial ooze like a zero-point energy of social media.
There are also external sites which archive threads, but that's not 4chan's problem with regards to the DMCA.
They should have installed Gentoo!
I've got about half a dozen USR Courier modems stashed away, probably the best analog modem ever made. At least one I got new (it has the sysop price deal nameplate riveted on it), and a few I found cheap at thrift stores back in the late '90s. I wonder how well they would work with my UVerse VoIP setup. If the VoIP tries to use a full 56K/64K ISDN-B bandwidth, it might even work very well. Maybe if I ever find a phone number of something to dial I'll try it someday.
Air conditioning. And now I've got to blow out the stupid condensation drain; I just heard the dripping and yep it was stopped up.
I've got a red WE2500 phone, because cold war hotline, fuck yeah. Somewhere I also have one I found that had an arabic keypad. But alas, my hard voice line is gone, replaced by UVerse VoIP. On the other hand, at least now I get CNID for free. I refused to pay 2 bucks a month extra for that all these years.
And feet, why do we still bother to walk now that we invented the wheel! I mean, look at the Daleks, they went with wheels millennia ago!
...and if your server goes away and you get another server, you can move the offline copy of your old mail to your new server. Some of my oldest e-mails are from when I was using Outlook on Mac OS 8 or so. I was able to use IMAP to move them to newer servers.
I also have a bunch of old AOL messages, but I had to go to great lengths to decode their "cabinet" format (which was a total WTF) to extract them.
It is still a long-term goal of mine to use a microcontroller to make a USB Model M.
Yes, I know you can buy new keyboards with USB interfaces, made by the same people. Or that you can get a PS2/USB converter. It's not the same as having a genuine surplus Model M with a native USB interface.