VentureStar didn't work. The design was fundamentally screwed because the lifting body did not generate enough lift or stability, so they had to add more control surfaces, which increased weight. The new fangled tanks were the best hope for keeping the weight low enough to be usable. When those cracked and it became apparent that they would have to use stronger, heavier tanks, then the weight envelope got screwed even more.
So VentureStar didn't work because it couldn't work. That doesn't mean SSTO is dead, it just means that somebody besides Lockmart should build it. Really, the right way to do space would have been DC-X
I think Saddam is an evil person and we should get rid of him, but I think space exploration exceeds Iraq as a national priority.
Our military budget is going to be 500 billion dollars a year by 2006. I would rather see 300 billion, 6 aircraft carriers, and SSTOs. If anyone attacks us, we will just drop an asteroid on them, or aim a solar mirror at their country and burn up all their food.
Plus if we found a rock with plenty of palladium on it, well, that would be worth the expense of bringing it back - when you figure the environmental destruction of palladium mining and that there is --only one-- source.
Hey, the guy wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but, during the really big budget deficit days of the late 80's and early 90's, Bush Sr was like, well let's axe NASA. Dan Quayle intervened to get NASA put back into the budget.
Buying into less developers needed to do the same thing is false choice. There are huge opportunities for incorporating A/I and ever greater complexity into today's business systems. Coupled with ever richer user interfaces, and better quality systems, the market remains right for a newer, better way.
So quit lamenting that you can't get millions of dollars and endless accolades with stupid ORDER BY and GROUP BY tricks. If you are willing to think, there is plenty of room to make a killing, in fact, there is even more room now than there was before.
Will this new standard be able to do things in parallel the way SCSI can? Will I turn my server into a PC like box that seemingly pauses every time the swap file gets touched?
Holy beejeezus, they can transplant hearts, lungs, livers, reattach limbs and now transplant faces. When are they going to get the transplant that really matters - I want my 18" porno dick. I mean really, wouldn't it be a happier world if we just cloned a porn star a few million times and instead of having to be trying to right shareware so I can buy a status car, and a status house, I could just buy myself a porno dick transplant and be happy living in a shack!
Unix infighting has already cost the entire industry money. Every time one Unix vendor goes after another Unix vendor, Microsoft makes the argument that with Windows you don't have to put up with Unix vendors going after each other. This happened in 1992, and it is happening again now.
Sun should have focused more on hardware, and SCO should have focused more on overall solutions. Linux can help them both more than it can hurt them. If anything, having a Sun certified Linux distribution would help Sun AND Linux and would have hurt Windows.
As it stands, M$ is going to laugh all the way to the bank, again.
Let's see, you have some project where a talented developer wrote an entire new language. If you would have had requirements that set your bar higher, you would have an interested team, kicking major ass. Instead you've probably delivered slop and your team is bored silly.
If, as you say, it is reasonable to assume that the entire universe does not support life, because we have not found it, then it is further reasonable to infer that we are such a statistical accident that we don't actually exist at all.
I had no idea they put cobalt on beer bottles. I guess I'll have to keep the beer away from my tabletop cold fusion device, lest a twelve pack and an accident spell the end of the world.
You need all this big horsepower because of all the stupid VB.Net programmers that think code optimization is clever use of m_ and indenting for code they cut and paste.
If EFI does a lot of device discovery and disk management, then theoretically Intel might be making it much easier for third party operating systems to proliferate.
The Space Shuttle has something like a 2% chance of killing the men and women who fly it. While you or I would likely jump at a chance to get into space, most people would stop at the 1/50 risk.
The people that ride that thing were committed. They were insanely focused on their lives, to do things that might get them killed. Thrill seekers with Phds? Perhaps, but, that's what heros are made of.
1) Splitting up a big file turns an elegant solution into a an inelegant nightmare.
2) Instead of 10 different applications writing code to support splitting up an otherwise sound model, why not have 1 operating system have provisions for dealing with large files.
3) You are going to need the bigger files with all those 32 bit wchar_t and 64 time_ts you got!
I got excited and made mistakes. A couple of quick corrections:
in the comment about "tab and line breaks", I meant to say "field breaks"
I wrote:
XML Schema fails because it pretends to be a markup language when it really is a declarator, and XML fails because it pretends to be a description of markup when it really needs to be a class specification.
I meant to say:
XML Schema fails because it pretends to be a markup language when it really is a class specification, and XML fails because it pretends to be a description of markup when it really needs to be a declarator.
I started out trying to make a joke to the effect that everything should look like C and we would be ok, but then I had this revelation.
All of this tag stuff is completely unreadable and agonizing to work with, and the notion of a markup language is good for documents but terrible for general data exchange.
XML Schema fails because it pretends to be a markup language when it really is a declarator, and XML fails because it pretends to be a description of markup when it really needs to be a class specification.
employee_history:collection of termination, promotion;
};
};
And, would not this be a more readable instantiation of data against that schema?
using schema employee_history( "http://www.myemployeeservice.com" );
employee( last => "bandrowsky", first => "todd",
employee_history(
promotion( date => "5/1/2002", newrank => "general of the broom" )
termination( date => "6/1/2002", reason => "showed up at 11:00 every day"
) );
etc..
And of course the syntax could be simpler than that as well.
But, we could do better still.
For faster and more binaryish transmission, we could do something and in all of UTF32 reserve a set of characters for delimiting data, perhaps in some clever ways and stop the silly parsing problem once and for all. I mean, how long was TAB ok in ASCII 7 for line breaks? Why couldn't we reserve some special characters for meta data separation? Isn't THAT the simplest thing to do.
XML's flaws are conceptual, as there are better concepts, and therefor, it sucks.
I for one do not understand why XML developers picked such a verbose representation. Clearly, instead of tags, a single word and an arrow is all that is needed:
I think that is clearer than XML, by far.
In general, markup languages suck. I really think we should just scrap the whole internet and start over. It's an insult to think that we have all this beautiful code on the back end to produce semi-colon lacking rubbish!
Oh, now you've done it. I was just joking around on the last board where I hoped I could just joke around and not got embroiled in the same old controversies.
If the US lived up to its constitution, double jeorpardy is the perfect solution to capricious governments picking on a people. However, we are now a nation where the constitution is a document whose pieces are defended by only particular parties, and no party defends them all. Democrats are big into the 1st amendment, while Republicans are into the 2nd. And, both parties forget that the Bill of Rights was NEVER intended to be an enumeration of the only rights we have.
Sigh.
I have no idea what we should do with the Taliban POWs at Guantomino. I guess at some point they should be repatriated by the Afghan government.
My healthy distrust of any centralized power makes it impossible for me to condone the holding of American citizens or American nationals without trial. If they did something wrong, try them. If not, let them go. Just because a president of my own political party got elected does make his abuses of federal power any more right than when democrats do it.
If anything, Bush is a walking, talking argument for the power of the federal government needing to be checked. He has become everything that right wingers accused the liberals of plotting to do. I think I'm the only assault rifle toting right wing lunatic that things that Bush is a total prick.
>I will sum it up as follows: There has to be >some intrinsic value for something to be done
I have an instrinsic reason: THE EARTH SUCKS.
We're all slaves of giant megacorporations and giant governments. Our leaders, both corporate and political, are all droning gutless idiots. I think if we can build a technology to sustain life on another planet, people would go in a heartbeat.
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Take 200 billion dollars, screw the nuclear treaties, and build the Orion...
VentureStar didn't work. The design was fundamentally screwed because the lifting body did not generate enough lift or stability, so they had to add more control surfaces, which increased weight. The new fangled tanks were the best hope for keeping the weight low enough to be usable. When those cracked and it became apparent that they would have to use stronger, heavier tanks, then the weight envelope got screwed even more.
So VentureStar didn't work because it couldn't work. That doesn't mean SSTO is dead, it just means that somebody besides Lockmart should build it. Really, the right way to do space would have been DC-X
I agree.
I think Saddam is an evil person and we should get rid of him, but I think space exploration exceeds Iraq as a national priority.
Our military budget is going to be 500 billion dollars a year by 2006. I would rather see 300 billion, 6 aircraft carriers, and SSTOs. If anyone attacks us, we will just drop an asteroid on them, or aim a solar mirror at their country and burn up all their food.
Plus if we found a rock with plenty of palladium on it, well, that would be worth the expense of bringing it back - when you figure the environmental destruction of palladium mining and that there is --only one-- source.
Hey, the guy wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but, during the really big budget deficit days of the late 80's and early 90's, Bush Sr was like, well let's axe NASA. Dan Quayle intervened to get NASA put back into the budget.
Buying into less developers needed to do the same thing is false choice. There are huge opportunities for incorporating A/I and ever greater complexity into today's business systems. Coupled with ever richer user interfaces, and better quality systems, the market remains right for a newer, better way.
So quit lamenting that you can't get millions of dollars and endless accolades with stupid ORDER BY and GROUP BY tricks. If you are willing to think, there is plenty of room to make a killing, in fact, there is even more room now than there was before.
Now of course, we carefully use super sampled DVD audio to get Britney Spears. If only musicianship advanced as fast as technology!
Will this new standard be able to do things in parallel the way SCSI can? Will I turn my server into a PC like box that seemingly pauses every time the swap file gets touched?
Holy beejeezus, they can transplant hearts, lungs, livers, reattach limbs and now transplant faces. When are they going to get the transplant that really matters - I want my 18" porno dick. I mean really, wouldn't it be a happier world if we just cloned a porn star a few million times and instead of having to be trying to right shareware so I can buy a status car, and a status house, I could just buy myself a porno dick transplant and be happy living in a shack!
Unix infighting has already cost the entire industry money. Every time one Unix vendor goes after another Unix vendor, Microsoft makes the argument that with Windows you don't have to put up with Unix vendors going after each other. This happened in 1992, and it is happening again now.
Sun should have focused more on hardware, and SCO should have focused more on overall solutions. Linux can help them both more than it can hurt them. If anything, having a Sun certified Linux distribution would help Sun AND Linux and would have hurt Windows.
As it stands, M$ is going to laugh all the way to the bank, again.
Let's see, you have some project where a talented developer wrote an entire new language. If you would have had requirements that set your bar higher, you would have an interested team, kicking major ass. Instead you've probably delivered slop and your team is bored silly.
If, as you say, it is reasonable to assume that the entire universe does not support life, because we have not found it, then it is further reasonable to infer that we are such a statistical accident that we don't actually exist at all.
I had no idea they put cobalt on beer bottles. I guess I'll have to keep the beer away from my tabletop cold fusion device, lest a twelve pack and an accident spell the end of the world.
You need all this big horsepower because of all the stupid VB.Net programmers that think code optimization is clever use of m_ and indenting for code they cut and paste.
Let's face it. OS/X, with all its Unix underpinnings and a darned clever GUI, all running on top of a fairly smoking 64 bit chip.
Build this thing Apple, and I'll get a home equity loan for the thing if I have to.
I've not lusted for a computer this much since I first saw an Amiga 1000 running the Deluxe Paint demo at Macy's, way back when.
Hey, WinNT ran on a PowerPC a long time ago. Maybe its time to make a comeback?
If not, there's always a 64 bit WinCE. Everyone needs a 64 bit handheld with a GUI so they can get awesome drag and drop with a stylus!
If EFI does a lot of device discovery and disk management, then theoretically Intel might be making it much easier for third party operating systems to proliferate.
The Space Shuttle has something like a 2% chance of killing the men and women who fly it. While you or I would likely jump at a chance to get into space, most people would stop at the 1/50 risk.
The people that ride that thing were committed. They were insanely focused on their lives, to do things that might get them killed. Thrill seekers with Phds? Perhaps, but, that's what heros are made of.
1) Splitting up a big file turns an elegant solution into a an inelegant nightmare.
2) Instead of 10 different applications writing code to support splitting up an otherwise sound model, why not have 1 operating system have provisions for dealing with large files.
3) You are going to need the bigger files with all those 32 bit wchar_t and 64 time_ts you got!
I got excited and made mistakes. A couple of quick corrections:
in the comment about "tab and line breaks", I meant to say "field breaks"
I wrote:
XML Schema fails because it pretends to be a markup language when it really is a declarator, and XML fails because it pretends to be a description of markup when it really needs to be a class specification.
I meant to say:
XML Schema fails because it pretends to be a markup language when it really is a class specification, and XML fails because it pretends to be a description of markup when it really needs to be a declarator.
All of this tag stuff is completely unreadable and agonizing to work with, and the notion of a markup language is good for documents but terrible for general data exchange.
XML Schema fails because it pretends to be a markup language when it really is a declarator, and XML fails because it pretends to be a description of markup when it really needs to be a class specification.
to wit, is not this a schema?And, would not this be a more readable instantiation of data against that schema?
using schema employee_history( "http://www.myemployeeservice.com" );
employee( last => "bandrowsky", first => "todd",
employee_history(
promotion( date => "5/1/2002", newrank => "general of the broom" )
termination( date => "6/1/2002", reason => "showed up at 11:00 every day"
)
);
etc..
And of course the syntax could be simpler than that as well.
But, we could do better still.
For faster and more binaryish transmission, we could do something and in all of UTF32 reserve a set of characters for delimiting data, perhaps in some clever ways and stop the silly parsing problem once and for all. I mean, how long was TAB ok in ASCII 7 for line breaks? Why couldn't we reserve some special characters for meta data separation? Isn't THAT the simplest thing to do.
XML's flaws are conceptual, as there are better concepts, and therefor, it sucks.
Everyone whose seen Batman knows that the Penguins are dangerous! Bring out the Stealth bombers. Fire! Bomb! Pillage! Let Loose the Hounds of WAR!
Obviously, they did not properly discipline the bad kitty! :-)
Oh, now you've done it. I was just joking around on the last board where I hoped I could just joke around and not got embroiled in the same old controversies.
If the US lived up to its constitution, double jeorpardy is the perfect solution to capricious governments picking on a people. However, we are now a nation where the constitution is a document whose pieces are defended by only particular parties, and no party defends them all. Democrats are big into the 1st amendment, while Republicans are into the 2nd. And, both parties forget that the Bill of Rights was NEVER intended to be an enumeration of the only rights we have.
Sigh.
I have no idea what we should do with the Taliban POWs at Guantomino. I guess at some point they should be repatriated by the Afghan government.
My healthy distrust of any centralized power makes it impossible for me to condone the holding of American citizens or American nationals without trial. If they did something wrong, try them. If not, let them go. Just because a president of my own political party got elected does make his abuses of federal power any more right than when democrats do it.
If anything, Bush is a walking, talking argument for the power of the federal government needing to be checked. He has become everything that right wingers accused the liberals of plotting to do. I think I'm the only assault rifle toting right wing lunatic that things that Bush is a total prick.
Oh well. Maybe it's too much C++ on native Win32.
>I will sum it up as follows: There has to be >some intrinsic value for something to be done
I have an instrinsic reason: THE EARTH SUCKS.
We're all slaves of giant megacorporations and giant governments. Our leaders, both corporate and political, are all droning gutless idiots. I think if we can build a technology to sustain life on another planet, people would go in a heartbeat.