I hope the delay is due to this being its first use [...]
I think that particular plane is a NASA research asset, not part of some standard emergency response plan, and was not presumed to be deployed for that particular situation at all.
It's a little late to get maximum benefit from something like this
Maybe not maximum benefit, but I imagine the thermal sensors could be very valuable on Wednesday for places where it was not easy to tell visually where exactly fires were.
I think there is a lot of stuff in unix like xargs which is primarily about converting between character streams and lists which is not necessary with PowerShell because the shell and the "cmdlet"s can deal with lists directly without conversion, and the shell language has constructs for iterating and slicing them.
That's the problem with a lot of Ask Slashdots: people focus on the technology they want to use, rather than the task they're trying to use it for. Cliff really ought to bounce back stories like this with the request that they fill in such details.
A problem I have with a lot of Ask Slashdots is that even though a simple straightforward question is asked, readers are not satisfied to simply either answer the question that was asked, or not post a reply, but instead insist on a either answering a different question, or berating the person who asked the question.
I think the question in this Ask Slashdot is fine as it is-- it is clear what is asked, and it is a reasonable thing to inquire about. If readers do not find the question interesting and/or do not know the answer, they can feel free to move on and leave it alone.
You will see many people trying to sell you on in-ear phones such as the Shure E3 or the Etymotic ER6
Trust me - these are mostly overkill. I have a set of Shure E3s that I bought to cope with our extremely loud drummer - however, unless your coworkers are using jackhammers, a good quality set of closed-back headphones (AKG 270, Sennheiser HD580, Sony MDR-7506) will sound better and be more comfortable.
I have spent a few thousand hours wearing in-ear and closed regular headphones for periods of 4+ hours at a time and 8+ hours a day, and find the in-ear kind to be much more comfortable. HD-580 sound as good to me as ER-4S, but they are not closed. I have found MDR-7506/MDR-V6 and HD-280 less comfortable than in-ear headphones without sounding any better.
I can run inetd-style fork-exec-terminate servers in C on CPUs that a cellphone would spit on, and handle hundreds of connections a second. Bringing up a JVM on the same processor would take minutes.
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if it takes 10s to start up a JVM your customer's already hit "back".
I find that startup/shutdown for a simple Java program takes about 200ms at 1GHz with the vanilla Sun JDK 1.5 JVM, or 150ms using gcj (gcc), and an equivalent C program takes about 2ms.
Browser plugins? For content, yes, but not for navigation.
The overhead of starting a JVM should be incurred only once per browsing session.
The Code of Canon Law makes 4 references to abortion, and all of them talk about actually performing abortions. Have you got a source for official Catholic doctrine on legislating abortion?
I think the Church more or less considers "legislation" to be an artifact of decisions made by individuals (those who create the laws), and things like that are related to the concept of scandal.
The
Catechism of the Catholic Church says:
2286 Scandal can be provoked by laws or institutions, by fashion or opinion.
Therefore, they are guilty of scandal who establish laws or social structures leading to the decline of morals and the corruption of religious practice,...
2287 Anyone who uses the power at his disposal in such a way that it leads others to do wrong becomes guilty of scandal and responsible for the evil that he has directly or indirectly encouraged.
Also, I think the position of the church is that human life begins at conception (a zygote is a person), so any laws/sins which apply to a person (viz murder) apply to an unborn person.
I'm more inclined to trust a program built/optimized speficically for different platforms than one that claims to be compatible with all of them.
I am more inclined to trust a program which uses one codebase to run on top of one platform which is already in use by many other deployed working programs and which already has implementations tested with and optimized for all the target architectures and operating systems.
I'm implementing python as an alternative to java in large applications - with complete success. Easy to learn, easy to maintain, fast enough to handle millions of rows of data a day - what's not to like?
For large application maintainability,
I do not like that I cannot expect to look at a Python function definition and see what are the expected types of the arguments.
I think SQL is like COBOL because they both have syntax which seems to make a lame attempt to have statements look somehow like natural language.
"MULTIPLY Num1 BY Num2 GIVING Result", "SELECT column1, column2 FROM table WHERE column1 IS LIKE '%pattern%' ORDER BY column1".
QT is as free as the Linux kernel since they are both under the GPL.
Qt may be as free as the Linux kernel, but those who want to leverage their application development interfaces are not as free with Qt as with the Linux kernel. The effective application development interface for the Linux kernel functionality is (system calls via) libc which is LGPL.
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I think that particular plane is a NASA research asset, not part of some standard emergency response plan, and was not presumed to be deployed for that particular situation at all.
Maybe not maximum benefit, but I imagine the thermal sensors could be very valuable on Wednesday for places where it was not easy to tell visually where exactly fires were.
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I think there is a lot of stuff in unix like xargs which is primarily about converting between character streams and lists which is not necessary with PowerShell because the shell and the "cmdlet"s can deal with lists directly without conversion, and the shell language has constructs for iterating and slicing them.
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I think it was worth it anyway.
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Addonics CF-IDE.
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How about d(p)/dt = d(mv)/dt instead?
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It's getting eerie... What's this cheery singing all about?
comet impacts
slagging ~ disparaging
Go Cardinals!
500+ years!
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A problem I have with a lot of Ask Slashdots is that even though a simple straightforward question is asked, readers are not satisfied to simply either answer the question that was asked, or not post a reply, but instead insist on a either answering a different question, or berating the person who asked the question.
I think the question in this Ask Slashdot is fine as it is-- it is clear what is asked, and it is a reasonable thing to inquire about. If readers do not find the question interesting and/or do not know the answer, they can feel free to move on and leave it alone.
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Linux has always been monolithic; it has not migrated from a microkernel-based model.
Indeed.
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I have spent a few thousand hours wearing in-ear and closed regular headphones for periods of 4+ hours at a time and 8+ hours a day, and find the in-ear kind to be much more comfortable. HD-580 sound as good to me as ER-4S, but they are not closed. I have found MDR-7506/MDR-V6 and HD-280 less comfortable than in-ear headphones without sounding any better.
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Xmas of what year? The book was published in 2001.
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See also the Free CINT and TCC.
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I find that startup/shutdown for a simple Java program takes about 200ms at 1GHz with the vanilla Sun JDK 1.5 JVM, or 150ms using gcj (gcc), and an equivalent C program takes about 2ms.
The overhead of starting a JVM should be incurred only once per browsing session.
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I think the Church more or less considers "legislation" to be an artifact of decisions made by individuals (those who create the laws), and things like that are related to the concept of scandal. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says:
Also, I think the position of the church is that human life begins at conception (a zygote is a person), so any laws/sins which apply to a person (viz murder) apply to an unborn person.
Larry
Have the designs for these self-reconfiguring robots been cleared with the Asgard?
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I am more inclined to trust a program which uses one codebase to run on top of one platform which is already in use by many other deployed working programs and which already has implementations tested with and optimized for all the target architectures and operating systems.
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Yes, with the type of the formal parameter an ancestor of the class of the actual parameter.
Testing is useful after changes have been made. Knowing the expected argument types for a function is useful in determining what changes to make.
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For large application maintainability, I do not like that I cannot expect to look at a Python function definition and see what are the expected types of the arguments.
Larry
I think SQL is like COBOL because they both have syntax which seems to make a lame attempt to have statements look somehow like natural language. "MULTIPLY Num1 BY Num2 GIVING Result", "SELECT column1, column2 FROM table WHERE column1 IS LIKE '%pattern%' ORDER BY column1".
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Unfortunately Masami got laid off from Tachibana in 2002.
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Qt may be as free as the Linux kernel, but those who want to leverage their application development interfaces are not as free with Qt as with the Linux kernel. The effective application development interface for the Linux kernel functionality is (system calls via) libc which is LGPL.
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I think it is because of acclamation from sun!wnj.
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