Special orders don't cost any more (other than the price for the parts), don't delay your order, and are easily available online, so why does it matter if it's "only" in special orders?
I've tried to get iChat and AIM working together to do voice chat, but I've never succeeded. I've read that a few people have made it work, and many people have not. Does anybody know why, and how I can make it work? I'm very interested in this question.
He should be commended not made fun of, but we are too busy wallowing in our ignorance to realize his achievment.
This is way OT, but why did you use "we" there? Clearly you are not too busy wallowing in your ignorance to realize his achievement. Shouldn't you have used "you" or "they"? I've seen this kind of wording a lot and I'm curious to know why it's used.
Escape velocity has nothing to do with orbit. Escape velocity is what you need to attain to leave Earth completely, for example if you wanted to go into Solar orbit. Balloons never do anything remotely approaching "escape" in this context.
Getting into orbit is way, way, way harder than getting to 100km. It takes 24 times the energy to get to orbit, and you therefore need massively larger fuel tanks and engines to do so. You are correct that "eight times more speed" is misleading, but you got it backwards; since kinetic energy goes up as the square of the speed, you need more than eight times the energy to reach orbit.
It also occurs to me that if something bad happens to the Russian space program, the ISS crew may have to wait for Rutan's future orbital project, if they hope to get home at all...
The ISS has lifeboats with enough capacity to get everyone down without help from Earth. That's one reason why they never had more than three people on it at a time, because there is currently no vehicle capable of acting as a lifeboat for more than three people. Even if all spacecraft on Earth disappeared tomorrow, they'd be able to get back fine.
Obviously I don't think that, otherwise I wouldn't have asked my question.
Yes, I'm sure that in a precise mathematical sense, it's rare for mean to equal median. However, I'm pretty sure that most of the time they are within a few percent of each other, which, given this is basically a statistics discussion, is close enough to "same" for me. The standard bell curve distribution will put the mean and median in the same spot, after all.
How often does this actually happen in real-world populations, rather than contrived examples? Also, I believe the quote says that all of the children are above average; you always need at least one spoiler.
And when was the last time you built an X-Prize contender? Of course, I may well eat my words and you'll turn out to be a certified JPL rocket scientist, but I rahter doubt it. In fact, I'll stick my neck out and say that you probably have never built anything even half as impressive as what Carmack and team have produced so far. Armadillo is surrounded by Monday-morning quarterbacks who think they could do better than he has, even though the've never progressed beyond two-foot models and Armadillo is busily ignoring them and building actual rockets.
You're either clueless or excessively whiny. Supporting OS 9 would add a huge amount of extra work, and basically no benefit. It is not easy to make applications, especially applications based on UNIXy HTML-rendering libraries (hint hint), run on both OS 9 and OS X without looking and working like crap on OS X. People who still run OS 9 are almost all people who don't spend money on their computers, more or less by definition (if they spent money, they wouldn't still be running OS 9). Apple rarely makes software that runs on older OSes. They dropped support for System 7 in most of their apps after OS 8 was out for a while, and they dropped OS 8 after OS 9 was out for a while. They don't even support OS X 10.0 with iTunes.
Your G3/333 will run OS X just fine. You can run Jaguar on it, which isn't the newest, but hey, it's a very old computer. Jaguar was the first really good, stable, and fast OS X release, so you should have no trouble with that compromise.
When individuals want to do something, they are given all benefit of the doubt and things are not outlawed unless they are conclusively harmful.
When governments want to do something, they are given no benefit of the doubt and they are not permitted to do anything unless it is conclusively harmless.
At least, that is the general principle. Governments can be incredibly dangerous; individuals are not. That is why you have this seeming double standard that is, in fact, not a double standard at all.
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Because you would never ever ever want to plug more than one mouse or keyboard into a computer, or hotplug them, or simply consolidate your ports so you don't have madness on the back of your computer.
Well aren't you a condescending guy. It is exactly this sort of tunnel vision that I am criticizing.
You obviously looked at my resume, but did you really read it? I have reasonably broad experience. If Apple folded tomorrow, I could move over to Linux. If all computers stopped working, I could get a job as a teacher, go into math, whatever. I have made my living programming before, and I am doing so now. (My resume isn't quite up to date, precisely because I don't need it to be at the moment.) I have plenty of my own ideas, and I'm actually acting on them.
Pigeonholing yourself as an "engineer" is not doing anyone a favor. You're a person with skills, one of which happens to be engineering. "Engineer" is a job description, not a life description. I don't have any advice to offer engineers. I have advice to offer people; take charge of your own lives! People who are stuck in sucky situations in the US are almost always people who would rather complain than do something different.
You're incredibly condescending about the fact that I worked in a non-engineering field for a while; how stupid. Yes, I have a real interest in this, and I intend to do it for a long time, but if it doesn't work out, I'm flexible. If all you can offer is complaining about big companies and looking down on people who are younger than you are, why should somebody hire you instead of some guy in India?
Slashdot's reader base is finding it more interesting to complain and play the victim than actually put some effort, thought, and most importantly creativity into improving their situation. And slashdot's editors encourage it by posting stories like this one, even though I'm sure none of them have ever had to deal with outsourcing themselves.
Don't be fooled by the names. Underneath the skin, IE for Mac and IE for Windows have nothing in common. They're created by two different groups and are two different codebases, they just happen to be made by the same company and given the same name.
I'm not referring to the UDP checksum, and you are failing to understand what I'm saying.
UDP provides a best-effort delivery of datagrams with a reasonable chance that they will not be corrupted in transit. It's not that special.
On top of UDP, you can build any kind of protocol you want. You can build a protocol that automatically retransmits lost packets. You can build a protocol that sends redundant packets to do forward error correction of lost packets. You can build a complete TCP workalike if you want.
No, if it is transmitted as UDP packets without loss recovery then it will not recover lost packets (duh). It is entirely possible to build a full loss-protected, error-correcting protocol on top of UDP. With enough buffering and network speed overkill (802.11g is way faster than you need to send CD-quality audio) you will never get drops.
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Special orders don't cost any more (other than the price for the parts), don't delay your order, and are easily available online, so why does it matter if it's "only" in special orders?
I've tried to get iChat and AIM working together to do voice chat, but I've never succeeded. I've read that a few people have made it work, and many people have not. Does anybody know why, and how I can make it work? I'm very interested in this question.
He should be commended not made fun of, but we are too busy wallowing in our ignorance to realize his achievment.
This is way OT, but why did you use "we" there? Clearly you are not too busy wallowing in your ignorance to realize his achievement. Shouldn't you have used "you" or "they"? I've seen this kind of wording a lot and I'm curious to know why it's used.
Yes, I'm fully aware, that's the whole point of the sig. You're only the second person to find it, though, so congratulations. :-)
Escape velocity has nothing to do with orbit. Escape velocity is what you need to attain to leave Earth completely, for example if you wanted to go into Solar orbit. Balloons never do anything remotely approaching "escape" in this context.
Getting into orbit is way, way, way harder than getting to 100km. It takes 24 times the energy to get to orbit, and you therefore need massively larger fuel tanks and engines to do so. You are correct that "eight times more speed" is misleading, but you got it backwards; since kinetic energy goes up as the square of the speed, you need more than eight times the energy to reach orbit.
It also occurs to me that if something bad happens to the Russian space program, the ISS crew may have to wait for Rutan's future orbital project, if they hope to get home at all...
The ISS has lifeboats with enough capacity to get everyone down without help from Earth. That's one reason why they never had more than three people on it at a time, because there is currently no vehicle capable of acting as a lifeboat for more than three people. Even if all spacecraft on Earth disappeared tomorrow, they'd be able to get back fine.
You're wrong. This rocket is fully human-piloted from start to finish.
Congratulations, you win a prize! I've been waiting for somebody to find that "mistake". Good job!
Well, obviously that is how you think, since you're the one who said that, but generalizing to all humans is a bit premature.
Obviously I don't think that, otherwise I wouldn't have asked my question.
Yes, I'm sure that in a precise mathematical sense, it's rare for mean to equal median. However, I'm pretty sure that most of the time they are within a few percent of each other, which, given this is basically a statistics discussion, is close enough to "same" for me. The standard bell curve distribution will put the mean and median in the same spot, after all.
How often does this actually happen in real-world populations, rather than contrived examples? Also, I believe the quote says that all of the children are above average; you always need at least one spoiler.
And when was the last time you built an X-Prize contender? Of course, I may well eat my words and you'll turn out to be a certified JPL rocket scientist, but I rahter doubt it. In fact, I'll stick my neck out and say that you probably have never built anything even half as impressive as what Carmack and team have produced so far. Armadillo is surrounded by Monday-morning quarterbacks who think they could do better than he has, even though the've never progressed beyond two-foot models and Armadillo is busily ignoring them and building actual rockets.
You're either clueless or excessively whiny. Supporting OS 9 would add a huge amount of extra work, and basically no benefit. It is not easy to make applications, especially applications based on UNIXy HTML-rendering libraries (hint hint), run on both OS 9 and OS X without looking and working like crap on OS X. People who still run OS 9 are almost all people who don't spend money on their computers, more or less by definition (if they spent money, they wouldn't still be running OS 9). Apple rarely makes software that runs on older OSes. They dropped support for System 7 in most of their apps after OS 8 was out for a while, and they dropped OS 8 after OS 9 was out for a while. They don't even support OS X 10.0 with iTunes.
Your G3/333 will run OS X just fine. You can run Jaguar on it, which isn't the newest, but hey, it's a very old computer. Jaguar was the first really good, stable, and fast OS X release, so you should have no trouble with that compromise.
Yes, because there's absolutely no way that a collection of large companies could possibly do more than one thing at a time.
This is how free countries work.
When individuals want to do something, they are given all benefit of the doubt and things are not outlawed unless they are conclusively harmful.
When governments want to do something, they are given no benefit of the doubt and they are not permitted to do anything unless it is conclusively harmless.
At least, that is the general principle. Governments can be incredibly dangerous; individuals are not. That is why you have this seeming double standard that is, in fact, not a double standard at all.
Because you would never ever ever want to plug more than one mouse or keyboard into a computer, or hotplug them, or simply consolidate your ports so you don't have madness on the back of your computer.
Well aren't you a condescending guy. It is exactly this sort of tunnel vision that I am criticizing.
You obviously looked at my resume, but did you really read it? I have reasonably broad experience. If Apple folded tomorrow, I could move over to Linux. If all computers stopped working, I could get a job as a teacher, go into math, whatever. I have made my living programming before, and I am doing so now. (My resume isn't quite up to date, precisely because I don't need it to be at the moment.) I have plenty of my own ideas, and I'm actually acting on them.
Pigeonholing yourself as an "engineer" is not doing anyone a favor. You're a person with skills, one of which happens to be engineering. "Engineer" is a job description, not a life description. I don't have any advice to offer engineers. I have advice to offer people; take charge of your own lives! People who are stuck in sucky situations in the US are almost always people who would rather complain than do something different.
You're incredibly condescending about the fact that I worked in a non-engineering field for a while; how stupid. Yes, I have a real interest in this, and I intend to do it for a long time, but if it doesn't work out, I'm flexible. If all you can offer is complaining about big companies and looking down on people who are younger than you are, why should somebody hire you instead of some guy in India?
Hear hear.
Slashdot's reader base is finding it more interesting to complain and play the victim than actually put some effort, thought, and most importantly creativity into improving their situation. And slashdot's editors encourage it by posting stories like this one, even though I'm sure none of them have ever had to deal with outsourcing themselves.
Don't be fooled by the names. Underneath the skin, IE for Mac and IE for Windows have nothing in common. They're created by two different groups and are two different codebases, they just happen to be made by the same company and given the same name.
Queue the wacko environmentalists who can't spell "queue".
This would be more like blaming Ford if your friend borrowed your car and bumped the "Explode" button while going around a sharp turn.
But real-life analogies to computer problems generally suck, so who knows.
With all respect to Dr. Tanenbaum, it's not hard to look good when responding to someone as stupid as Ken Brown.
The typical slashdotter's command system sees "Apple" and instantly shuts down all higher brain function.
I'm not referring to the UDP checksum, and you are failing to understand what I'm saying.
UDP provides a best-effort delivery of datagrams with a reasonable chance that they will not be corrupted in transit. It's not that special.
On top of UDP, you can build any kind of protocol you want. You can build a protocol that automatically retransmits lost packets. You can build a protocol that sends redundant packets to do forward error correction of lost packets. You can build a complete TCP workalike if you want.
No, if it is transmitted as UDP packets without loss recovery then it will not recover lost packets (duh). It is entirely possible to build a full loss-protected, error-correcting protocol on top of UDP. With enough buffering and network speed overkill (802.11g is way faster than you need to send CD-quality audio) you will never get drops.